The Property Owl Blog

Poppy at Zoomf writes a great post, as always about blogging.

To extend the point a little, try a google search of: ‘rightmove blog’.

Yep, there we both are and no sign of rightmove’s blog!

Cheers
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This is London posts a news item about a gay couple who were ‘outed’ by their estate agent.

Apparently, one of the selling particulars was the word lesbians which was listed where the reference number should have been and then uploaded to Rightmove. The intention appears to be that this property is owned by [...]

Search Engine Land posts on the recent launch of Google’s Knol.

I am guessing we are all sat here thinking how we can get on to (a) benefit the user and (b) generate more traffic for our respective customers/clients/sites.

For those that don’t know (i had forgotten) the knol project ‘…is a site [...]

Open any paper and it is all doom and gloom. The Sunday Independent ran an article this weekend quoting Peter Spencer from Ernst and Young who published their summer forecast yesterday. In a nutshell they predict the housing market will get worse before it gets better.

This is of course not rocket science [...]

Hot on the heels of Estate Agent Today, the Negotiator has launched a new web site.

Early days and more content needed, but good to see this space is changing.

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1000watt consulting have just released their updated mind map for all things web 2.0 in the real estate game.

This is an essential reference tool and the old one has had much use from us so it is (a) great to see an updated version and (b) great to see us on there. [...]

Harriet Harman says “grave cause for concern” for the housing market, but the government is “taking action”

We ask, who is to blame? The government, the banks, estate agents, George Bush, or someone else. Please vote for one, a few or all and tell us if you think someone else is to blame. [...]

FOREM posts on a recent Yahoo! study regarding Internet influences, home buyers and sellers (house in the UK is actually the more used search term), specifically how the Internet influences consumers when it comes to buying a house and selecting an estate agent.

FOREM and the USA of course mention there is no great surprise [...]

The Negotiator email alert informed me yesterday that Rightmove is putting up is prices for new lettings members by 30% odd.

Lettings are arguably more buoyant and no doubt Rightmove has spotted an increase in residential agents moving into the lettings game or upping their involvement within it.

Rightmove are quoted as saying [...]

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