Globrix
This competed with traditional paid-listings sites such as Rightmove (originally a joint venture among four of the UK's largest property agents, now a public limited company), Propertyfinder (also partly backed by News International) and Primelocation (owned by Daily Mail and General Trust).Unlike websites like Gumtree and Oodle, private sellers and landlords were not allowed to list their properties on the site.Users can search for property by location (e.g. city, town, full postcode, partial postcode or, unusually for property portals, street name), places of interest (e.g. schools, stations, landmarks) or by key features (e.g. swimming pool, garden, double glazing, helipad).(Some users are unimpressed with the lack of precision of the inferior Bing offering, which often manages to put the marker in a field, compared to the accuracy and ease of use of Googlemaps).Globrix data was sometimes used by the national media to illustrate stories on house prices,[citation needed] the economy, area trends, consumer confidence[1] and the property market.