Whois & Analysis for zoopla.com

Zoopla (Zoopla PLC) is a British property website covering the residential property market, partially owned by Daily Mail and General Trust and estate agent Countrywide.

Zoopla focuses on providing users with access to information such as sold house prices, area trends & statistics and current value estimates for domestic properties in the UK.

Zoopla PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

An estate agent is a person or business that arranges the selling, renting or management of properties, and other buildings, in the United Kingdom and Ireland or other countries around the world.

An agent that specialises in renting is often called a letting or management agent.

Estate agents are mainly engaged in the marketing of property available for sale and a solicitor or licensed conveyancer is used to prepare the legal documents.

In Scotland, however, many solicitors also act as estate agents, a practice that is rare in England and Wales.

In the abstract, property is that which belongs to or with something, whether as an attribute or as a component of said thing.

In the context of this article, property is one or more components (rather than attributes), whether physical or incorporeal, of a person's estate; or so belonging to, as in being owned by, a person or jointly a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation or even a society.

(Given such meaning, the word property is uncountable, and as such, is not described with an indefinite article or as plural) Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property has the right to consume, alter, share, redefine, rent, mortgage, pawn, sell, exchange, transfer, give away or destroy it, or to exclude others from doing these things, as well as to perhaps abandon it; whereas regardless of the nature of the property, the owner thereof has the right to properly use it (as a durable, mean or factor, or whatever), or at the very least exclusively keep it.

Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property owned by another.

A gross lease is when the tenant pays a flat rental amount and the landlord pays for all property charges regularly incurred by the ownership.

Real estate appraisal, property valuation or land valuation is the process of developing an opinion of value for real property (usually market value).

Real estate transactions often require appraisals because they occur infrequently and every property is unique (especially their condition, a key factor in valuation), unlike corporate stocks, which are traded daily and are identical (thus a centralized Walrasian auction like a stock exchange is unrealistic).

Location also plays a key role in valuation.

However, since property cannot change location, it is often the upgrades or improvements to the home that can change its value.

Appraisal reports form the basis for mortgage loans, settling estates and divorces, taxation, and so on.

Sometimes an appraisal report is used to establish a sale price for a property.