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Foxtons sign new mobile handset deal

London Estate Agency Foxtons has signed a major deal with phone provider Nokia to supply staff with its Lumia 820 smartphone. The manufacturer has already given the device to around 900 phones of Foxtons’ employees The estate agents, who we have highlighted on this blog before as a leading innovator, has 37 offices and has developed [...]

Countrywide plans stock market return

Countrywide Holdings, Britain’s largest estate agent by revenue, plans to return to the stock market after nearly six years in private hands, hoping a fragile housing market recovery will be enough to tempt investors amid growing demand for new issues. Grenville Turner commented that the reasons for launching the IPO go back to the reasons they took [...]

nethouseprices research reveals audiotours help sell homes faster

A new piece of research has been carried out by nethouseprices.com into the impact of an audiotour on the speed of selling a property. The findings of the research are that audiotours produced by AudioAgent, help homes sell in an average of 12 weeks (SSTC) when included as part of an agentsmarketing package, compared to a 34 [...]

GetTaxi leading the way in app innovation

It’s always interesting to see new apps that make people’s lives easier and this new taxi app caught our attention as an innovative app with some clever add ons. It takes something relatively simple, ordering a taxi, and makes it an even simpler and possibly more enjoyable experience with a few additional extras for convenience. [...]

New findaproperty.com iPad app review

It seems like this week has been a week for companies to launch iPad apps, with the much anticipated release of the Spotify and LinedIn apps. If you’re interested in new property apps however, this weeks launch of the latest iPad app from the Digital Property Group may well be first on your list to download. The [...]

The real value of a home

One of the problems with property being considered such a good long term investment is that people become obsessed with stats and house price trends and knowing when is a good or bad time to buy. This factor has become almost a national obsession during the last few years and coupled with the newspapers ability [...]

Adzuna launches friend map, a new way to find property

It’s clear that as the web becomes more connected, primarily via social media sites, that our recommendations and search results will be provided to us with opinions and feedback from those we are connected to taken into account. Google have introduced a new Search, plus your World which aims to understand not only content but people [...]

Top 20 UK Estate Agency and Lettings Agency Web Sites: Top 5

This is the final post in a series highlighting what we think are the Top UK Estate Agency and Lettings Agency Web sites out there at the moment. We are praising a variety of innovative sites that distance themselves from the standard agency template sites we see so often and show a little bit of [...]

Top 20 UK Estate Agency and Lettings Agency Web Sites: 10-6

This is the third post in a series highlighting what we think are the Top UK Estate Agency and Lettings Agency Web sites out there at the moment. We are praising a variety of innovative sites that distance themselves from the standard agency template sites we see so often and show a little bit of [...]

Why should I be Pinterested

  Last week we introduced Pinterest and gave an overview of how quickly it is gaining traction as a very credible social media site. But as with all social media, rather than just jumping on the bandwagon it is right for agents to consider how/why they would use it to enhance the marketing and development [...]