The Property Owl Blog

The measures and a summary according to the Owl (good work from FindaProperty reporting so quickly on the Budget)

1. Stamp Duty Holiday for homes valued at up to £175,000 to be extended to the end of the year

For those first time buyers wanting to live in most capital cities (especially London) this will not [...]

We mentioned a while back that we had incorporated Google streetview for a couple of clients and our good friends at Earthware were kind enough to comment on JRA about mapping in general and I have taken the following as it is useful to note:

‘… we [Earthware] have seen how agents have effectively used this [...]

Another property portal – but this one is Ebay!

In a reported deal with Property Index, ebay is listing properties from portal feeds.

Great I say, about time and well done to Lee if it is Property Index who have brokered this deal.

The usual negative comments appear on Estate Agent Today, but I seem [...]

A discussion on JRA was mooting the applicability (and value thereof) of Google Streetview to real estate agent websites.

Some of our clients had already been asking for streetview so we incorporated it and we believe the results are impressive. See for yourself:

Destinations London1st Avenue

Indeed, as a potential punter, I think this is [...]

HIPS – Go and get one, it is the law.

There is a good article on estate agency news about the new HIP regulations. Hang on a second, they are not new, everyone has known for some time they are coming so why a big song and dance now. Partly because of the [...]

There are apparently now around 11,000 real estate agents in the UK, which has a population of 60 million odd. That is roughly 5,454 people for each agent. Not bad, but then consider the following:

Land registry data shows only 30,000 odd properties were sold in January 2009 within the UK. [...]

Juicy Red Apple has a great competition running and they are giving away another fantastic Flip Digital camcorder to one lucky member. Apparently, they may even throw in the active mount so you can film yourself flying down a mountain!

The rules: invite as many people to JRA as possible (agents would be [...]

An excellent post about social media and business networking appears on Geek Estate and is worthy of a read. Some of my thoughts based on their comments:

Many agents and real estate professionals in this country have yet to even consider the jump to the social space, but if one looks at it as business networking [...]