New Features at homehound.com.au

Australian property portal homehound.com.au has upgraded its website to include a number of new features. The website now has share accommodation listings, a finance centre with mortgage comparisons and quotes, “Walk Scores” for properties, and listing information via free SMS.
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zamanzar.com Releases ZamEstimate

Indian property portal zamanzar.com claims to be the first Indian real estate portal to release an online property value estimate tool.
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New iPhone App From zillow.com

US real estate marketplace zillow.com has released a free iPhone application that allows users to access property values and other information on the move. In what zillow.com calls a “serious upgrade” to “the Sunday house-hunting jaunt”, the application uses the iPhone’s GPS to track nearby properties and provide price information as the user passes by.
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casaclick.it Goes Mobile

Late last year Italian property portal casaclick.it partnered with Garmin Italia to offer property searchers the opportunity to upload the properties listed on casaclick.it to the GPS Garmin Satellite Navigation system. Now they’re taking it to mobile phones.
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metrolistmls.com Adds Dwellicious

metrolistmls.com, a California based Multiple Listing Service provider, has integrated social bookmarking service Dwellicious into its website.
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enormo.com Adds Foreclosure Listings

Global property search website enormo.com has added 1 million listings to its index through a partnership with US foreclosure marketplace realtytrac.com. The partnership will give enormo.com users access to foreclosure listings across 2,200 US counties in each stage of the foreclosure process: pre-foreclosure, auction and bank-owned.
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Google – Friend or Foe?

Whether we like it or not, Google is a powerful force on the internet and for most businesses, they are a key driver of traffic. Many portal sites around the world receive more than 30% of their traffic from searches done on Google. Therefore, it is not surprising that property portals around the world are asking the same question – is Google a real threat to my business? What these property portals fear most is that Google will openly compete with them in providing listing advertising for agents – thus making the portals almost irrelevant.

We see this concern in the survey results we have on Property Portal Watch in which 50% of respondents believe that Google can replace property portals or will strongly compete with them.

Therefore is Google really a threat for property portals or will it continue to be a friend and drive traffic?

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iProperty.com Group Wins Six Times

The iProperty.com Group has taken out “Best Property Portal” Award for six of its websites across five countries in the 2009 Asia Pacific Property Awards.
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zillow.com’s First TV Ad

zillow.com is featuring in a national US TV advertisement. The thing is, they didn’t ask for it, or even have to have to pay a cent.
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hemnet.se Revamps in 2009

Swedish property portal hemnet.se has announced a revamp of its website, with a new design and an improved search function to be launched on 1 June 2009.
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