Real Time News for thinkproperty.com

One of the UK’s consumer property portals, thinkproperty.com, has added real time news to its website. thinkproperty.com, wholly owned by GMG Property Services, a division within Guardian Media Group, places Web 2.0 methodology at the heart of its functionality, with Google mapping, property ranking, RSS and Video Tours being core features. 

In a good move to keep up with the largest UK portals and give consumers a more informed experience, the new content offers the latest information on buying, selling, letting and renting property. There’s also updates on finance, estate agents and property prices. Positioned neatly at the top left of the site, the news is updated in real time via a bespoke news content feed on the site. 

The new feature is also nicely integrated into the site’s directory of locations; targeted news content, as well as local area information such as school performance results and sold prices can be found here now. Users can browse through locations using the existing sitemap and also perform property searches straight from the directory. 

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, from over 6,000 estate agents.

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