The Property Owl Blog

I saw this great piece of marketing from pacific poker the other day and thought it would be fun to produce one for the property industry. I neither have the time nor skill to do undertake such a task so imagine story/fable book music and footage and put the following words to it. [...]

We all know that when a tech says it will be ready in a week, this means you double it and add a bit for good luck. But where is Property live?

I am not sure I can bear the image of the man in a bad suit for much longer! Any news [...]

Rightmove listings are on their way down. Is this just the time of year, the current economic climate, both, competition, agents waking up to other possibilities or something else?

The Negotiator posts on Rightmove House Price Index, which shows just 23,141 new listings this month compared with 30,341 during the same period last year and [...]

A new widget from Blogger provides for bloggers to follow their list of blogs, whilst at the same time allows these ‘followers’ to build and display a profile about them and their company (see small thumbnails on the right).

A great opportunity to market we think. Indeed, I can already report that having run [...]

The Globrix Blog is coming to life.

We look forward to seeing the developments and we were trying to leave a nice welcome message (akin to delivering a cake to a new neighbour) but the spam checker (please enter these random letters tool) was driving us insane. It is a two word affair that [...]

I was put on to this great tool which compares the costs of buying and renting over a period of years.

It has sliders to allow you to change the rate of rent increase and the rate of house price increase (ha!), the slider only goes down as far as -10%.

It is [...]

Given the resounding success of HIPs the government has forged ahead with plans to introduce EPCs for Landlords and the deadline for compliance by Landlords to have an EPC in place looms on 1 October 2008.

Chapter and verse on EPCs can be found at Directgov and there are a number of issues [...]

Further to the poll we ran last month, which showed that the vast majority of you feel HIPS are a waste of time, it will come as no surprise to some that one of the leading HIP providers, Open Book, have gone to the wall.

Reported by Mortgage Strategy, Openbook was one of the fore [...]

Continuing the theme of Blogs, we thought we would run a poll and ask you what were your favourite Blogs.

We have limited it to the UK for reasons of space if nothing else. Indeed, there are some leading Blogs in the USA that we all follow closely, but we had to try and [...]

More news on the Rightmove share price, which as you know we have been following closely. Property Portal Watch posts on the news that UBS has recommended Rightmove as a ’sell’ option, down from the ‘neutral’ recommendation previously provided.

In a nutshell, the move followed advice that rightmove is intrinsically linked with the housing [...]