Technology
Portal pitches punchy prices
Scott Green
New kid on the portal block, needaproperty.com, is throwing its resources into taking on the big boys with the launch of a new user platform next month
Savills maps-out house price forecasts
Savills have come up with a nifty way of getting their property forecasts out there, launching an interactive "Five Year Forecast Tool" that can be used either straight from the Savills website, or be…
Futurewealth #1: the digital world of the Futurewealthy
In the first of four in-depth reports, wealth gurus Scorpio Partnership explore how the world’s wealthy are engaging with new technologies and how they spend their time online, asking what role they f…
New website and offices for Winkworth
A mighty start to the year from Winkworth, who has launched a shiny new website modelled more on a property portal than anything else, and has two new offices slated to open over the next couple of weeks.
Zoopla rounds-off 2012 by absorbing Globrix
Zoopla's buying spree continued right to the end of 2012, with the DPG-merged group snapping up Globrix.com from A&N Media for an undisclosed sum over Christmas
Portal Authority: Leeming joins Belvoir
Property portal pioneer Nick Leeming has joined Belvoir Lettings as the company's second Non-Executive Director (NED), after leaving Zoopla earlier this year (as reported by PrimeResi here).
PropertyWeek’s Top 100 Tweeters
Clever old PropertyWeek has put together a comprehensive rundown of the top tweeps in the property universe. Cue some cross-referencing with Henry Pryor's (more resi-centric) uberlist here
Blog standards: nominations open for property blog awards
Nominations for the fourth annual PrimeLocation.com Property Blog Awards have just opened, celebrating wordsmithery across the property blogosphere
Record month for Zoopla Group
Zoopla Property Group has released its first performance figures as a fully integrated platform; unsurprisingly, they're the biggest yet.
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@HenryPryor’s Top Tweeters
The busiest man on Twitter, Henry Pryor (@henrypryor), has been hard at work compiling a list of the top (or at least most active) property agent Tweeters
New rental index launches for investors
Institutional and professional investors will from today be able to track detailed rental pricing trends with the help of a new index, compiled in conjunction with an economist from the LSE.
PCL growth to 9.9% this year, but slowing
Prime central London prices continue to reach new heights, according to Knight Frank's latest residential property market report, climbing by 0.5% in August , taking the annual rise to 9