India’s Best Real Estate Website: propertywala.com

Indian property portal propertywala.com has been voted the country’s best real estate website in the 2008 Website of the Year Awards.

The awards are run as an annual ‘people’s choice’ poll and were established in 2004 in India by online market research agency MetrixLab in association with Neilsen Online, supported by partners including Mashable.

This year the awards polled over 1.5 million Internet users from India and propertywala.com was chosen from 12 websites that were nominated in the real estate section.

A statement from the winning portal says:

“PropertyWala.com offers the most broad and user friendly property advertising services free of charge for buyers and sellers in India and overseas. PropertyWala.com has been developed over a period of two years by its parent company Efextra eSolutions Pvt Ltd (an IT company) after an extensive exposure working with international real estate portals. The site has been developed from the ground up with ease of use and web standards in mind. Within a period of 8 months of its launch, PropertyWala.com has become top real estate websites in terms of traffic and search rankings.”

See a list of winners in all categories at the Website of the Year Awards website.

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