home.co.uk Revamped

Renthusiast has brought our attention to the fact that UK property search engine home.co.uk has been revamped.

Instead of the old two colours, it’s now full colour, slicker, tidier, and easier to use.

home.co.uk claims to have built the most comprehensive database of UK residential properties advertised for sale on the Internet, although comScore figures rank them at number 28 in the UK, behind all the big name portals, with 119,000 unique visitors.

One feature propertyportalwatch.com particularly likes about home.co.uk is their statistics page which is updated daily to reveal data about property listing info on the portal. For instance, when we checked there were 727,484 unique homes for sale, of which 43,821 had been placed on the market in the last 14 days, from over 16,393 agents in their directory. And, of the 6,506,809 properties viewed by homebuyers last month they had 411,444 click throughs to property details.

1. home.co.uk’s New Look Increases Popularity

   home.co.uk are pleased with the website's new look. The company says ”soaring traffic levels over the first few weeks of January suggest it’s proving very popular". And they're not the only ones....

2. home.co.uk Accused of Mis-Marketing

   Reports in The Negotiator suggest that UK property search engine home.co.uk has been accused of mis-marketing properties listed by a UK estate agent....

3. myvacanthouse.com Makes A Home

   A property portal with a difference has just launched in the US. myvacanthouse.com is an interactive national resource connecting individuals or banks who have vacant homes for sale with live-in stagers who will furnish and maintain the home while it is for sale....

4. INEA Link to home.co.uk and Develop RemoteAgent

   The Independent Network of Estate Agents (INEA) have partnered with home.co.uk to provide a live feed of their agent listings to the UK portal. They've also been busy developing a portable shop front video screen called RemoteAgent, which was showcased at Inman Connect....

5. Competition in New Home Portals

   findanewhome.com has overtaken previous UK market leader smartnewhomes.com as the most-visited new homes portal according to Hitwise figures from November....