Google has this week unveiled something which is being regarded as a free property portal accessible directly from its search engine (the most popular search engine in the world). There have been free property portals before but their success depended on traffic, a critical mass. A critical mass is not something which Google lacks!
Google has been experimenting in the U.S. for a while, showing properties on its interactive map, but Google Australia has just released a mapping service that enable estate and letting agents to directly list their properties on its maps in its search engine. With no charge!
Visitors simply go to the Australian Google site, enter their requirements and the properties are plotted on its interactive maps.
"We think people will really start to look at these listings a lot online within Google Maps and then click through to individual agency websites when they've found a property they're after. " Google product manager Andrew Foster said.
This improved functionality has been developed in Australia and is being copied to Google’s search engines in the U.S. Google Street View was first in the US then Australia and there is no reason to expect it won’t be rolled out in the UK just as Google Street View recently was.
Realestate.com.au (60 per cent owned by News Corp) and domain.com.au are the leading property portals in Australia and are playing down the search engine giant’s threat to their business.
What this means for the future of the property portals is debateable but they must be concerned that the services they provide might not seem quite so essential with one of the biggest companies in the world, known for offering technologically advanced business customer orientated services for free, moving into their space.
Saturday, 25 July 2009
Friday, 10 April 2009
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When office space is at a premium or when agents just need to access and amend their diaries, branch properties and contacts etc outside of the office then it used to be the case that the only option was a slow unreliable website based CRM system. Not any more. EstateCRM is a fast desktop software which uses the internet to synchronise instantly any changes made in or out of the office. Even without the internet, agents can do everything they could do in the office, and any changes simply synchronise automatically as soon as internet connection resumes. Synchronisation is seamless and in the background while you work.
EstateCRM is a fully functional single or multibranch system which is set up and operational in minutes. E-mail info@estatesolutions.co.uk for download instructions.
EstateSolutions are software providers and website developers for the UK estate and letting industry. Contact us on 020 7609 2800 for an informal chat or email us at info@estatesolutions.co.uk. More information is available at www.estatesolutions.co.uk
Low monthly payments. Includes a leading edge website
or integration of the software into your website!
or
A cutting-edge website - for a low monthly fee.
You can have a website with all the functionality and look of a website costing thousands.
Up and running this week for a just a low monthly fee!
When office space is at a premium or when agents just need to access and amend their diaries, branch properties and contacts etc outside of the office then it used to be the case that the only option was a slow unreliable website based CRM system. Not any more. EstateCRM is a fast desktop software which uses the internet to synchronise instantly any changes made in or out of the office. Even without the internet, agents can do everything they could do in the office, and any changes simply synchronise automatically as soon as internet connection resumes. Synchronisation is seamless and in the background while you work.
EstateCRM is a fully functional single or multibranch system which is set up and operational in minutes. E-mail info@estatesolutions.co.uk for download instructions.
EstateSolutions are software providers and website developers for the UK estate and letting industry. Contact us on 020 7609 2800 for an informal chat or email us at info@estatesolutions.co.uk. More information is available at www.estatesolutions.co.uk
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Google's Street View for Estate & Letting Agencies
Estate Solutions are the first website developer in the UK to incorporate Google's new Street View technology in their estate and letting agency websites and software.
Click on the following to see an example of how properties can now be viewed online: http://www.gates.esuk.co.uk/propertydetails.aspx?id=35e25d15-272f-433b-ae78-605a26dd3a70&street=True
Some benefits of incorporating Street View into property websites are to impress vendors and landlords, gain instructions, reduce wasted viewings and bring buyers and sellers to the website.
Twenty-five British cities have been photo-mapped in three dimensions after the search engine giant spent a year touring 22,000 miles in cars with roof-mounted 360-degree cameras. Estate Solutions websites allow internet users to view all the agents properties in 3D, take a walk around the locale and even view the local points of interest such as parks, schools and transport links. Whilst FindAProperty has added this feature they have not been able to allow the agency to pinpoint the exact location of the property which has resulted in properties being wrongly located, even on the wrong street. With Estate Solutions, agencies can even choose the angle of view and zoom level of the property.
Call 020 7609 2800 and ask us how you can be the first to offer your website visitors this revolutionary service right in your website.
Click on the following to see an example of how properties can now be viewed online: http://www.gates.esuk.co.uk/propertydetails.aspx?id=35e25d15-272f-433b-ae78-605a26dd3a70&street=True
Some benefits of incorporating Street View into property websites are to impress vendors and landlords, gain instructions, reduce wasted viewings and bring buyers and sellers to the website.
Twenty-five British cities have been photo-mapped in three dimensions after the search engine giant spent a year touring 22,000 miles in cars with roof-mounted 360-degree cameras. Estate Solutions websites allow internet users to view all the agents properties in 3D, take a walk around the locale and even view the local points of interest such as parks, schools and transport links. Whilst FindAProperty has added this feature they have not been able to allow the agency to pinpoint the exact location of the property which has resulted in properties being wrongly located, even on the wrong street. With Estate Solutions, agencies can even choose the angle of view and zoom level of the property.
Call 020 7609 2800 and ask us how you can be the first to offer your website visitors this revolutionary service right in your website.
Saturday, 14 February 2009
As an aside...
Nothing whatsoever to do with the usual subject matter of this blog. Just a rant about some moronic celebrity: Bonehead, aka Bono, naka Paul Hewson, lead 'singer' with the bafflingly popular beat combo Youtoo (u2 in txt spk).
Apparently, this tuneless wally was present at the inauguration of Barrack Obarmy as the Leader of the Free World, although I didn't see it meself as I don't have a telly because I am convinced that cathode rays are harmful to the brain.
Why is this absurd poseur treated with such reverence? Who gives a flying witches' fart what a bejewelled and bewhiskered berk thinks about anything? If he is so worried about Africa why don't him and his ridiculous chums 'The Edge' 'Stingo' 'Bingo' and 'Bongo' buy the wretched gaff?
Of course Bonehead himself doesn't pay any tax, unlike the poor mugs who buy his dismal records. I'm sick of being preached at by a geezer in diamond earrings, a comedy hat and permanent sunglasses. Does he ever take them off? He looks like an identikit dickhead. I wonder if they all come off at the same time, like one of those grotesque masks with the nose attached to the glasses? Is his mrs. not embarrassed stepping out with such a popinjay? What does she call him? Paul? Nobo? Is she allowed to talk to him at all?
He is so far up his own posterior that he considers his ludicrous clobber to be 'iconic' (I'll wager he doesn't know what it means). He sued the silly cow who was hired as the group's 'image consultant' after she made off with his stetson, earrings, and a pair of his bins, on the grounds that they were 'icons of popular culture'. And he won! You couldn't make it up.
He also has a website that asks if we can 'make poverty history'. I've been making poverty history for ages, its not hard. Lets make Bonehead history instead. Not only is he a khunt, he's a khuntish khunty khunt khunt. And they are the worst kind. I must sign off now, as my keyboard is taking such a pounding that I fear it will break any minu
Apparently, this tuneless wally was present at the inauguration of Barrack Obarmy as the Leader of the Free World, although I didn't see it meself as I don't have a telly because I am convinced that cathode rays are harmful to the brain.
Why is this absurd poseur treated with such reverence? Who gives a flying witches' fart what a bejewelled and bewhiskered berk thinks about anything? If he is so worried about Africa why don't him and his ridiculous chums 'The Edge' 'Stingo' 'Bingo' and 'Bongo' buy the wretched gaff?
Of course Bonehead himself doesn't pay any tax, unlike the poor mugs who buy his dismal records. I'm sick of being preached at by a geezer in diamond earrings, a comedy hat and permanent sunglasses. Does he ever take them off? He looks like an identikit dickhead. I wonder if they all come off at the same time, like one of those grotesque masks with the nose attached to the glasses? Is his mrs. not embarrassed stepping out with such a popinjay? What does she call him? Paul? Nobo? Is she allowed to talk to him at all?
He is so far up his own posterior that he considers his ludicrous clobber to be 'iconic' (I'll wager he doesn't know what it means). He sued the silly cow who was hired as the group's 'image consultant' after she made off with his stetson, earrings, and a pair of his bins, on the grounds that they were 'icons of popular culture'. And he won! You couldn't make it up.
He also has a website that asks if we can 'make poverty history'. I've been making poverty history for ages, its not hard. Lets make Bonehead history instead. Not only is he a khunt, he's a khuntish khunty khunt khunt. And they are the worst kind. I must sign off now, as my keyboard is taking such a pounding that I fear it will break any minu
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Best marketing tool is now available for estate and letting agents
Estate Solutions, creators of estate agency software and estate agency websites, have completed changes to the marketing module of their innovative software. Users of estateCRM can now create, at the press of a button, elegant professional templates to send to applicants and vendors/landlords with attention grabbing email shots. Window cards, ads and any other type of marketing material can be created in seconds.
Contact Estate Solutions for details or call 020 7609 2800.
Contact Estate Solutions for details or call 020 7609 2800.
Friday, 16 January 2009
Update to estateCRM - Image order
In some cases, such as when users of estateCRM are uploading to a portal such as FindAProperty or Rightmove, they may want to have the images displayed in order of how important they are. EstateCRM has just been updated so that a 'priority' can be set for any image. The image with the category 'main photo' will still show first in estateCRM and on the Glance tab but the remaining images categorised as 'photo' will display according to the priority order set in the portal uploads tab and in the portals themselves. Any questions do contact us as always.
Saturday, 10 January 2009
MousePrice
We're always trying to give our members as much free exposure for their properties as possible so estateCRM have just liaised wuth MousePrice to upload properties to their portal(www.mouseprice.com). The portal is free to list and we're not charging anything to any users of estateCRM wishing to take advantage of this. If we havent contacted you already then contact us asap and we'll add MousePrice in your portal uploads area. Another free upload portal we use aleady is ThinkProperty (if you dont have that enabled already).
Stephen Brennan
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