REA Group Sells Stake in propertyfinder.ae

The REA Group has exited the Dubai market by selling its 51% stake in propertyfinder.ae to Michael Lahyani, owner of its joint venture partner, the Swiss Media Group.

The REA Group purchased 51% of Propertyfinder.ae in October 2007 with the objective of driving strong growth on online real estate advertising in the Gulf Region.

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realestate.com’s Twitter Bot Taking Requests

If you’re a follower of realestate.com’s @housewatch Twitter channel, you will have already noticed their regular tweets showing information on mortgage rates, featured homes and realestate.com’s contact details.

These tweets are sent out automatically by realestate.com’s “bot” (tech-speak for “robot”), and were launched by the website’s director of business solutions architecture Dennis Kuntz in April this year. What you might not have noticed yet is that the @housewatch bot can do more than just regularly send out information – it can also respond to your requests.
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Records at findaproperty.com, findanewhome.com

The Digital Property Group has revealed that it’s not only its flagship property portal, findaproperty.com, which has been breaking records. It’s sister website, market leading new homes specialist portal findanewhome.com, has also broken web traffic records this week.
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tepilo.com Phase 2 Live

TV presenter Sarah Beeny’s new UK property website tepilo.com has just gone live with “phase 2″, meaning users can now search through property listings, and all uploaded listings are now public.
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loopnet.com: Revenue Decrease, Listings Increase

LoopNet, Inc., operator of the largest commercial property portal in the US, loopnet.com, has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2009 were down slightly.
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daft.ie Increases Market Share

daft.ie has release ABC electronic figures showing that not only does it continue to remain the number one property portal in Ireland, but that it has in fact increased its market share.
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globrix.com Updates Mobile Search

globrix.com, the UK property search engine, has announced an update of its mobile website.
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PC Mag Honours trulia.com, hotpads.com

PC Mag has named US property search engine trulia.com and map-based real estate search engine hotpads.com in its top 100 websites of 2009 list.
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s1homes.com Announce Agency Deal

Slater, Hogg & Howison and Countrywide, two of Scotland’s largest estate agency chains have joined forces with Scotland’s largest property portal, s1homes.com.
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New Marketing Tool at apartments.com

US based apartments portal apartments.com has released a social media marketing tool it says will allow apartment leasing professionals to connect with renters more easily.
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