Property Blog Awards Runner Up

Hip Owls

Hip and Cool does not mean slick Home Information Packs in this instance. Yes, Property Owl is cool and that is official. Graffiti artist Blunt has Incorporated the owl which is seen as one of the coolest animals on the planet. Move over lions and tigers, the Owl is coming. You [...]

Seth Godin Podcast

I have grown up with Seth Godinand have tried to adopt many of his ideals and expand upon his advice throughout my businesses. I missed his recent webinar when he discussed his new book Meatball Sundae so I was pleased to find the following podcast on the Ubertor blog. As a bonus, [...]

The Owl Elevator Pitch

Ubertor has an interesting post regarding 60 second elevator pitches without using screenshots or demos. This interested me for a number of reasons, but mainly because I have been working on a demo for our product and I was getting a little bored. I have seen hundreds of product demos for all sorts [...]

Property industry a buzz with Roost

Roost is another search in the property market, but over in the USA.

One of my favourite blogs the future of real estate marketing says that Roost is amazingly quick. Unfortunately, it was very slow for us (perhaps due to all the hits following the blog entry) and I was confronted with [...]

It is all about location!

Quiet cul-de-sac, next to the river, surrounded by good restaurants. Yes, our local urban fox has found the perfect den/lair or whatever it is called.

She wanders past our office at all times of the day, looks both ways before crossing the road (I kid you not!) and then strolls to [...]

The real economic indicators

The Daily Telegraph reports that Foxtons estate agency is coming under attack for comments made by their staff to members of the public.

Apparently, a local resident complained about the Foxtons mini cars being left in all the parking bays. Foxtons staff apparently hit back with some choice comments made anonymously [...]

Keyword Misspelling

Would you believe how many people misspell the word property when searching for that word? We asked 20 people to type property into google search and this was the result:

- 10 people got it right first time- 4 people typed – proeprty- 3 people typed – proprety- 2 people [...]

The Big Green Challenge (BGC)

The Big Green Challenge flashed across the radar the other day and it struck us that estate agents, commercial agents and all other professionals were in a unique position to assist in reducing the carbon footprint – if we listen to the government (which of course we do not) then the [...]

Help and Listings

Its all about me! The attached video found at the great future of real estate marketing site and produced by 1000wattconsulting asks whether lead generation is dead. We say every estate agent should watch something like this video and then not ask what is dead, but ask what does the customer actually want?!

Property Owl [...]