Archive for February 2010

“Five Minute Interview” with David Pollock, Managing Director, Greene & Co.

Monday, February 15th, 2010
David PollockDavid Pollock is managing director of Greene and Co, one of the UK’s best-known, most innovative and successful estate agencies which, as well as covering some of London’s most glamorous northern postcodes, has been helped by David’s ability to enlist famous friends to help steer its fortunes. We pinned him down this week for a five-minute interview.

Innovation by the app-load

Monday, February 15th, 2010
FindaProperty.com iPhone search appThere are over one million iPhone users in the UK and a growing number of them are likely to move home this year as signs of a property market recovery emerge. To help agents benefit from this dynamic and often younger home buying market sector, FindaProperty.com has this week launched its own application for the iPhone. It is free to download and takes iPhone house-hunting to the next level, offering features that more fully exploit the handset’s touch screen, rotate and accelerometer functions – unlike many of the competing apps.

How are your chain reactions?

Monday, February 15th, 2010
Primelocation Chain FreeBroken buying chains are every agent’s nightmare, a problem not helped these days by the lending drought that has made chains both longer and more fragile – but Primelocation.com has a solution.

44% would buy a new home

Monday, February 15th, 2010
The commonly held belief that new builds represent just ten per cent of the overall property market1 has been challenged by recently-published figures from The Digital Property Group.

We welcome Globrix to The Digital Property Group

Monday, February 15th, 2010
Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND*), the parent company of The Digital Property Group (TDPG), has acquired 50% of the UK’s largest free-to-list property search engine Globrix which is to join the existing family of TDPG property search engines.