Zoopla rejoins PR giant and hires new research director

February 17, 2019

British property portal, Zoopla has brought on a newcomer to its executive team.

Richard Donnell has been appointed as research and insight director. His job will be to research, analyse and release more market information and insight, aimed at helping agents.

Donnell has had 25 years’ experience in property industry data and analytics. He started his career at Savills before moving on to Hometrack. He was part of the management team that sold Hometrack to ZPG for £120m two years ago.

Donnell said of his latest appointment: “These are exciting times at Zoopla."

Zoopla is a property website based out of the UK, focused on empowering users with the resources they need to make better-informed property decisions. They help consumers both find their next home and research the market by combining hundreds of thousands of property listings with market data, local information and community tools.

At Zoopla, transparency is of the utmost importance, and everything they do is aimed at making the market more efficient for both property consumers and advertisers alike. 

Launched in 2008, Zoopla has since been one of the fastest growing websites in the UK, now attracting over 40 million visits per month and they are proud to have collected numerous awards and accolades along the way, including being named one of the Top 10 UK Tech Companies (Guardian) and one of the Top 10 Most Innovative UK Companies (Smarta).

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