Thinkproperty.com Launches Property News Content
Released
on: October 22, 2008, 5:50 am
Press
Release Author: Thinkproperty.com
Industry:
Real Estate
Press
Release Summary: Thinkproperty.com has integrated real time property
news content into its site
Press
Release Body: Thinkproperty.com, a leading consumer
property portal, has added real time property news to its website.
The
new feature allows users to browse through the latest property
news on selling, letting, buying and renting
property, as well as information on estate agents, property
prices and general market news. thinkproperty.com
updates this news in real time via a bespoke news content feed
on the site.
thinkproperty.com's
directory of locations has also been improved to include targeted
news content, as well as local area information such as school
performance results and sold prices. Users can continue to browse
through locations using the existing sitemap, but can now also
perform a property search from the directory itself.
Mark Goddard, Managing Director of thinkproperty.com
comments: "We are delighted with these exciting additions
to thinkproperty.com. We know that research forms a large part
of the home movers process when buying
property, renting or selling property. Both of these changes
will further enhance the user experience of the site, which remains
at the heart of our development focus. "
thinkproperty.com
holds over 600,000 properties from the UK and overseas, including
40,000 rental properties, and is currently working with over 6,000
estate agents who are uploading their stock to the site and benefit
from an increasing number of leads originating from the property
portal.
thinkproperty.com
places Web 2.0 methodology at the heart of its functionality,
with market-leading functionality including Google mapping, property
ranking, RSS and Video Tours being core features.
About
thinkproperty.com:
thinkproperty.com is wholly owned by GMG Property Services, a
division within Guardian Media Group.
GMG
Property Services Group also owns Vebra, the UK's leading provider
of software to independent estate agents, Core, CFP, The Media
Design House and thinkproperty.com, the consumer-facing portal.
Guardian
Media Group plc ('GMG') is one of the UK's leading multimedia
companies. Its diverse portfolio includes the Guardian and Observer
newspapers and the Guardian Unlimited network of websites, the
Manchester Evening News, a number of other regional newspapers
in the North West and South of England, the Channel M city TV
station and the Manchester Online website.
GMG
also owned 13 regional radio stations by the end of 2007 under
the Real Radio, Smooth Radio, Century FM and Rock Radio brands.
Trader Media Group, one of Europe's largest specialist print and
online media companies, and publisher of the Auto Trader magazine
and website is jointly owned by GMG and Apax Partners, with GMG
as the majority shareholder.
Web
Site: http://www.thinkproperty.com
Contact
Details: Karen Hughes
The Drum Consultancy
18 Soho Square
London
W1D 3QL
Tel: 020 7025 8044
Fax: 020 7025 8100
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