The Property Owl Blog

A very brief post reporting on my thoughts on how agents should commence using social spaces/media and my experience to date.

It goes without saying that each is different, but I have met many businessmen and women who don’t understand the space and don’t feel they need to. They then ask how can [...]

The rat and mouse have a good post about a report on new build incentives to buyers as reported in the Daily Telegraph.

This caught my attention as I have been inundated recently with emails and offers from developers telling me how summer heights and other awfully named projects are the best places to live since [...]

Forget hunting for Easter eggs, there is more fun to be had hunting for a Foxtons mini. I understand they have all been recalled for new paint jobs and are disappearing from our streets quicker than a stock broker’s bank balance.

The Foxton mini has also been removed from the website and no [...]

What an excellent post from 1000 watt. Nothing is more true of the new generation of house buyers and sellers. They are mobile!

One only has to sit on a commuter train/bus/airport to get a rough idea of how the masses are using mobile media. More and more people are watching video on [...]

The recent supplement in the February Estate Agency Times – (sadly not online) reflected on what was labelled Property Portals.

The opening editorial is titled Portal Power and is a summary of all the ‘property portals’. This led me to ask, what exactly is a property portal?

As with all such investigations I [...]

How many times have you discussed matters with friends, colleagues, strangers on a bus, your imaginary friend and realised you all agree about the same point. Football players, tax, and the budget are all such matters. No matter how many people believe a course of action is the right way to jump, the [...]

A very brief post on the use of google trends.

We were looking at house search terms and I was just playing around with comparisons. I typed a comparison of house for sale and home for sale and noted that the first result produced by google trends showed a strong result [...]