The Property Owl Blog

In the current climate, it is surprising to see more portals entering the market, but could the answer perhaps lie in niche portals? Not quite vertical search, but the new uklandandfarms web site is already reporting 141 agents on the books and traffic of 2,000 uniques per day.

Run by Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (AMC) [...]

Lousia Fletcher sends me an email and posts on her Globrix page her top tips to sell your property. These are all hugely common sense and have been said a thousand times, but we all know how some clients will not do half of what is mentioned so I guess it is worth Louisa [...]

You may recall I posted on the Asda property portal a while back regarding their introduction of in store Pods. I asked if anyone had seen a pod and emailed Asda for some assistance.

Well, almost two months later I received a reply along with a pdf brochure. Apparently pods are rife and [...]

FindaProperty.com join the blogging world with their new blog, winging it.

Well, I received an email saying please have a look at our new blog. Although, I don’t recall a Finda blog there are a number of posts from way back, but not as far back as the Isle of Wight Homes blog as recently [...]

Google have released a new tool called Google Insights for Search where you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.

I haven’t yet figured out all this tool can do, but i have just spent 15 minutes comparing all sorts of search terms, including brand names. Search terms for [...]

You think the property market here is bad, take a look at Spain. The Motley Fool runs an article that states house prices in Spain have crashed 35% over the past 12 months, ‘… four times faster than in the UK, and haven’t stopped plunging yet. This spells disaster for an economy where [...]

The government released a paper in July to address the housing market decline and provided it with a punchy title, action today innovation tomorrow.

There is no explanation within the introductory text as to what this means. Innovation tomorrow, what innovation, there is no mention of innovation anywhere in the document. Perhaps as it [...]

I know we have some city analysts on board so perhaps someone can explain what is going on with the rightmove stock. It has steadily decreased for the past 12 months from highs of £6.30 in 2007 down to £2.20 odd the other week and then miraculously it has jumped back up by over [...]

Our friends at Belvoir Lettings asked if they could post on our blog.

We said we would be delighted and proprietor of Belvoir Bolton, Mike Stuttard, identifies the top five things that can go wrong for landlords, plus explains what they can do when the worst happens…What can landlords do when things go wrong? [...]

1000watt have an excellent post that emphasises the point of agents being open and not hiding information. It comes down to asking whether ‘you’ would want this information before buying a house and the answer is always going to be yes. Hiding information from buyers is akin to a second hand car salesman [...]