Instructions down? Sales stagnating? Want a quick fix?

If sales are down it may be that your presence on the internet, where 90% of property searches begin, is turning off buyers. If instructions are down it may not just be the market - its also likely that your biggest office: your website, isn’t inspiring confidence.

In this market place there’s one way to improve the bottom line quickly: invest in a professional website.

What are the benefits?
A one off payment - far better value than printed advertising. Estate Solutions are even offering the ability to rebrand websites and charge small monthly payments to ease cash flow problems.
More exposure than traditional advertising - available where the customers are looking - whether they are at home, in the office or sat on the company loo with their iPhone!
Updateable at no cost instantaneously and automatically – anytime and anywhere.
More instructions, more sales.

Imagine: a vendor is deciding which agency to instruct. Where’s the first place they will look? Your website. If its not as good as the other agencies then you've lost the instruction.

Imagine: a visitor to one of the big portals like Rightmove finds your property and goes to your website for more details. There aren’t any. The site looks less than professional. If its listed on another agents site - that’s who they'll call. And a buyer, as you know, is a potential instruction so you may have lost both.

Things have changed. The internet is everywhere. That’s where customers are looking. Estate Solutions specialise in websites for estate and lettings agencies.

To contact Estate Solutions call 020 7609 2800 or view http://www.estatesolutions.co.uk/

Dont just list your properties - map them interactively

The most important criterion when buying or renting a property is location. And the second: location! So why present your properties in a static list when you can display them in an interactive map embedded in your own site?



The map can be zoomed in or out and panned around effortlessly as your buyers view the streets where you have sales and rentals and check out the details by hovering over the properties. They will be able to evaluate the position of a property in relation to main roads, underground stations, railway stations, parks and other areas of interest.They'll be impressed and so will your potential vendors and landlords - turning potential instructions into instructions. You are suddenly leading the pack in e-marketing your properties.

It really needs to be seen to understand how leading edge this technology is. It requires no extra work for your team as the properties are dynamically located on the map whenever you add them as you normally do. To view how this works on an example site go to Estate Solution's Xample website: http://www.xample.co.uk/result.aspx?tab=map/

To contact Estate Solutions call 020 7609 2800 and ask about esMapping or view http://www.estatesolutions.co.uk/

Rightmove has just launched a new mobile website

Rightmove has just launched a new mobile website allowing you to 'search for property to buy or rent in the UK from almost any mobile phone'.

Hardly any wonder with 90% of property searches initiated online and 48 percent of mobile phone users using their mobile phones for internet access at workplaces alone (1). And with an estimated 58 million PDAs to be sold worldwide in 2008 (2) the trend for mobile property search is only going one way.

Estate Solutions (www.estatesolutions.co.uk) offer the same capabilities to regular estate agencies but at a fraction of the price. esMobile is a revolutionary new way to display your properties and full property details on a mobile phone. Now your properties can be viewed by potential buyers on the bus, on holiday, or even standing beside an your sale or lettings board outside one of your properties.

Your clients can view full property details, photos, floor plans, descriptions and location maps all on their mobile phone.

Your vendors and landlords will be impressed that you are using leading edge technologies and your website will boast that 'you can search from anywhere, 24/7, for the latest properties right from your mobile phone or PDA!'

To contact Estate Solutions call 020 7609 2800 or view http://www.estatesolutions.co.uk/

references:
1 - http://motorola.engadgetmobile.com/2007/05/31/15-percent-of-brits-polled-admit-using-mobile-internet-in-toilet/
2 - eTForecast

Solution found to FAP Editor website listings

Find A Property is one of the leading portals for property search in the UK and undoubtedly is vital for ensuring your property listings are available to the increasingly internet savvy band of property hunters.

Problem: You use FAP Editor to manage your applicants and properties and then just upload easily from within the software. The problem, as you know, is that to include the properties in your own bespoke website you have to use FAP listings within your website. That doesnt look good, doesnt fit in with your branding and can easily lead to your visitor wandering off onto another agencies properties and forgetting about you entirely. The alternative is to use the software or online control panel that your website development company gave you to upload your properties again. So now you have to upload and amend everything twice - once to FAP Editor and then to your website.

Solution: Having been inundated with requests from frustrated estate agencies, Estate Solutions have come up with ESUploader. Quite simply it sits in the background and automatically uploads properties from the FAP Editor database directly to your own website. Nothing is required from you - just use FAP Editor as you were previously. Simple as that.

For information call Estate Solutions on 020 7609 2800 or visit www.estatesolutions.co.uk