Domain Real Estate & Property 4+

Great experience, except for one thing..

I’ve been using Domain for a while and really enjoy it. Thank you for a great user experience. It’s easy to find what you need and filter. Overall, a great feature set that I would say is better than REA.
However, similar to some other reviews, I have noticed that the performance went south in one of the past updates. It used to be super fast and responsive, but now it often lags and is janky when moving the map around and zooming in and out. My phone also gets really hot.
As a note to developers, perhaps the issue is that all the work is being done on the main thread, including the search and filtering. Keeping UI updates on the main thread and putting everything else on a background thread would be the ideal way to handle this.

Developer Response ,

Hi, thank you so much for sharing your feedback. I'm glad to hear that you are finding the app helpful.

Regarding the performance issue, I'm keen on understanding better when this is happening so we can try to identify the cause and work towards fixing it. Could you please reach out to us at mobileproducts@domain.com.au with some more details? Specifically, let us know what device you are using, what iOS version you are running, and if this lag occurs every time or sometimes. Also, please mention if it happens from the beginning or after using the app for a while.

Cheers, Matias

Needs better filtering options

This app is good and I like using it to check properties while I search to buy. But it really needs better filtering options:

- Option to turn off properties with no numerical purchase price entered. Includes words (auction, for sale, call agent, etc) properties. I want to filter all thousand out! This would also save customers from clicking/tapping on the green dot only to realize it’s an auction or there is no price there which is a wast of time and would create more unrealistic metrics for domain.

For example: If I’m a buyer and I tap on a green dot only to realize it’s an auction, for sale, call agent, etc or has no numerical amount entered it’s an unrealistic click/metric and I’m not going to look any further into that property. End of story. I also think the real estate agents might appreciate more realistic clicks views as well instead of saying to sellers that we got 10,000 views of your property only to realise half of them are buyers not interested in (auction, for sale, call agent, etc).

Has many old and fake listings and they made it easier for agents to under quote.

The app is good, but the quality of the listings could be improved. A lot of listings are obviously fake and just fishing for contact details. There’s also many listings that are over a year old. The only way you know they’re that old is by selecting the ‘read more’ and then scrolling to the bottom and looking at the publish date. Why aren’t listings over six months or a year deleted? Why can’t I easily filter them out?

In Victoria, agents are required to display a sale price or range. This quote used to be retained after sale, but now domain deletes it, making it easier for agents to under quote and get away it. Shameful.

Developer Response ,

Hi, thank you for your review. For the notifications, this is not normal, can you email us at mobileproducts@domain.com.au so we can investigate this issue?

For the price history, we are really sorry about that. There was a technical issue and it should not be resolved so you should see the price history again.

Please email us at mobileproducts@domain.com.au if you have any other concerns, we are really keen to understand your perspective on our application. Thank you