Tag: Real Estate
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 [...]
Google algorithm change means agents need to get fresh
Google announced last week that they are rolling out a new search algorithm change that helps make the search results “fresher” and the big news is that its going to change the results for around 35% of all searches. This is significant compared to other recent changes such as Panda, which only impacted around 12% of searches [...]
Augmented Reality Property Applications
Mobile internet usage is accelerating at a phenomenal rate and in Dec 2009 alone, some 16 million people in the UK accessed the internet from their mobile phones. Not only are the number of users growing, but their usage is too, with one in five mobile subscribers surfing using a smartphone. The property portals have [...]
Google Real Estate’s First TV ad
Google have launched their first ‘Real Estate on Google Maps’ advert for the Australian market, underlining their appetite to develop and capture their audience in this market place (if you ever doubted it). If you’ve seen any of their recent adverts, such as the ‘Parisian Love’ advert aired during the Super Bowl, you will know what to [...]
Are estate agent’s high street offices day’s over?
There has been an interesting debate taking place in the housingdabble linkedin forum around the above question and so I thought I’d post my views on the current state of play. Rightmove’s recent online consumer survey asked what influenced their decision when choosing an estate agent and the top four
Google Property Search Developments
I’ve been keeping a close eye on the moves made by Google in the American and Australian property markets regarding their Google Property Search. If you aren’t aware
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