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ColdFusion Developer Role

We are looking for a seasoned ColdFusion Developer to work in our fun and friendly London Battersea office. The suitable candidate will join our small team of developers and work directly from our office.

We are looking for someone who can work well within a team but also micro manage themselves. The primary role [...]

My earlier post mentioned PropertyFinder, but I am now informed that Findaproperty and Primelocation are merging to be one.

More as it happens!

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Hot on the heels of the PropertyFinder and Hotproperty deal last week (as predicted on this blog in earlier posts), I hear a rumour that Primelocation are next to merge with PropertyFinder.

More to follow, but these changes are surely the first moves in reaction to search engines such as Globrix making big noises, the [...]

Two recent posts, one from 1000 watt and one from FOREM (have a look at the video) indicate the level to which some real estate agents have gone in an attempt to sell properties.

This doesn’t bode well as here I am prophesying a less high street dependent, more online, small agency model in the [...]

Thanks to all for comments. Fair point regarding the traffic/listings, slip of a late night button, sorry. In the circumstances, we picked up on this point and added a comment discussing traffic and the like.

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Property technology posts that Globrix is number two in terms of traffic, just behind rightmove.

This is excellent news for agents and all in the online property industry as it shows clearly that users have adopted the new generation of property search engines and therefore agents no longer need to spend vast sums on the [...]

The above is a quote from the head of residential sales at Savills on the front page of the FT Weekend House and Home section this weekend (5/6 April) which ran an article titled ‘we’re back to having to work hard’.

Notwithstanding the incredulous expression this headline provoked, some of the comments contained within require [...]

A light hearted post for Friday.

Have a look at the poll to the right. Some of the worlds best know residents are on the move and looking for a property, but who would you want living next door to you, or not as the case may be? Have a vote, it [...]

There are a number of things you could say about the photo below, namely:

- the agents in question have no properties to sell – no one looks in the window so why bother putting a photo up- the photos are behind the blinds – all of the above

I bang on [...]

‘flat to buy in London’. Two questions arise (a) would anyone actually type this into a search engine and (b) what results are produced if one does?

Well, type it in and see what comes up. Yes, Property Owl comes in at the number one spot on Yahoo for this and a number [...]