The Property Owl Blog

I am going to jump on the band wagon and declare lettings the darling of the industry.

It is of course common ground that lettings is currently the stronger market within the industry and the question I would like to ask is whether residential sales will ever recover?! Before I get an EAT [...]

Our friends from Belvoir Lettings have kindly privded us with 20 marketing tips to ensure your rental property stands out in a crwoded rental market.

Susie Geddes, office manager of Belvoir Corby explains that they try and create a virtual viewing, with lots of photographs, floor plans and walk-through movies to make each property [...]

“1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an Annus Horribilis.”

The above is of course the quote from the Queen’s speech of 24 November 1992 (chapter and verse see Royal.gov )

I thought it [...]

Wow, look how well our SEO has improved.

Unfortunately, the above is just us playing with the latest tool from Google, SearchWiki.

The official google blog states that SearchWiki is a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results [...]

Congratulations to Nestoria who have secured another deal with an online broad sheet, the Telegraph. The Rat and Mouse put me on to this and I think we will see more and more of these relationships being formed. Indeed, I am seeing it develop in other industries as companies seek to extend their [...]

The EAT comments on rumours of a bid for Rightmove.

A quick look at the share movements indicates significant share movement with someone buying up shares in Rightmove. There was certainly a lot of activity yesterday with the share price going down to a low level whereupon someone made their move. Tremblant Partners LP [...]

Congratulations to Globrix for winning the Negotiator Estate agency service firm of the year 2008.

Congratulations to all the other winners and it is nice to see an innovation category. The winner was the Smart System by Gillot Imaging, which is ….. well, I am not sure to tell you the truth. [...]

Mozilla labs has just launched Ubiquity which sets out to connect the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.

By way of example, they suggest that if you are writing an email to invite [...]

I am thinking of going into the house raffle/lottery/competition business. Why? Because people appear to be making cash from such activities.

As another property hits the pages of the press for being offered as a prize in a lottery (sorry competition), I decided to delve a little deeper and actually read the terms [...]

I saw this from Urban Spaces on Zoomf and immediately posted it on Juicy Red Apple and here. Why? Because we should all be looking at ways to reach out to our customers past, present and future and because at last someone is having a go and because it is a bit of fun! [...]