The Property Owl Blog

Do signs work?

Well, have a look at this picture of just outside our office. We put up this sign to stop people smoking (sad authoritarians we are). Does it work? Have a look at the next picture below this one!!

No smoking outside the office.

An effective sign!!!

But [...]

We were looking (sorry listening) to Foxtons audio tours with a computer generated speech tour the other day. The initial comments were that the computer generated voice was too monotonous and didn’t really ‘sell’ any of the features of the property. If this was a tour then the guide was missing and [...]

On 15 December 2007, the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 come into effect in so far as they extend to estate agents. So what!? Agents have always identified customers before, haven’t they?

Well, all estate agents are required to put in place anti-money laundering controls ‘…in order to anticipate and prevent your business [...]

We are currently conducting a survey on our ‘coming soon’ home page www.propertyowl.co.uk of how users prefer to search for property. We kept it simple and offered five options: google search style, advanced, quick, directory, map, quick, other. We used a drag and drop survey tool (not sure how [...]

We know logos are close to some of your hearts so we took on board your comments and came up with the current offering. We have had good feedback so far and with this in mind we dressed it up as our Christmas greeting to all.

We would love [...]

Welcome to the Property Owl Blog! The aim of this blog is to humbly try and add additional knowledge and discussion to some of the great blogs that already appear from the property industry.

We also hope to keep you updated with our ideas and experiments as we strive to [...]