Rent.com.au had record landlord listings in February: ASX announcement

ASX-listed Rent.com.au Limited had more than 610,000 unique visitors to the website in February 2016, following on a record 615,405 visitors in January.

It also had almost 1,300 new landlord listings in the month, a new high, the company said in a regulatory announcement.

Rent managing director Mark Woschnak said the February UV traffic result was in line with expectations, representing sustained growth over January on a per day basis. 

“While strong UV numbers are important and demonstrate an increase in the awareness of Rent, we are pleased with the launch of the national sales team ahead of schedule and continued gains made in agent and non‐agent registrations during the month of February," Woschnak said.

Rent now has more than 6,800 real estate agents registered with it and it has completed the deployment of its field sales team.

“We now have an on the ground agent sales presence right across the country and we are set to benefit from this continued increase in agent registrations. In addition to that, we have also had our biggest month yet for landlord listings,” said Woschnak. 

“Over the coming months we are focussing our resources on driving faster growth in agent and non‐agent registrations as we look to increase our overall level of listings content from the approximately 80 percent of national property listings that we currently have on site."