Two Search Engines Hiring

Two property search engines on opposite sides of the globe are looking for people to join their teams: nestoria.co.uk and rentbits.com.
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Email Trouble at realestate.com.au

Subscribers to realestate.com.au’s electronic brochures and email alerts have been asked to watch out for scam emails after an apparent mailing list breach.
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New Sales Managers at TDPG

UK property portal operator The Digital Property Group (TDPG) has appointed three new senior sales managers and says it is aiming to put “further pressure on the number one portal position.”
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Nestoria Launches in Australia

The Australian version of Nestoria – nestoria.com.au – is now live, offering home hunters the ability to search property for sale and rent across the country.
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zoocasa.com Gears Up for Relaunch

Canadian real estate search engine zoocasa.com is set to relaunch next month, offering new neighbourhood-based advertising options for agents and brokerages.
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kyero.com Voted Top Lead Generator

A recent customer survey by globaledge.co.uk has revealed the property portals agents and developers see as the best at generating quality leads, with Spanish portal kyero.com coming out on top.
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Print, TV Partnerships for funda.nl

Leading Dutch property portal funda.nl has joined forces with De Telegraaf to offer cheaper advertisements for commercial property and has also teamed up with Samsung to display its content on TVs.
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Portable Real Estate Listings — but With a Difference

The following article appeared in the NY Times about augmented reality (or layaring) and its usage in the online real estate market.  The author was R. Scott Macintosh.  Here is a link to the original article.

Open the mobile phone application offered by a French real estate agency and point your phone at a building along the Champs-Élysées or some other street in Paris. Within seconds, you will see the property’s value per square meter, superimposed over a live image of the building streamed through the phone’s camera.

Speed and convenience delivered with the aim of a smartphone. Could this be the new frontier of on-demand property search?

It depends whom you ask.

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Another Loss in REA Restructure

propertyportalwatch.com understands that Doug Blue, general manager of customer marketing at REA Group, has been made redundant after a company restructure. Sources say REA Group will soon merge its consumer and customer marketing teams, and that Blue was a casualty of this decision.
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New Rental Portal from daft.ie

Leading Irish property portal daft.ie has now launched a new rentals portal to cover Northern Ireland: rent.co.uk.
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