Google Street View Expands in UK

Google’s Street View has just been expanded to cover more than 95 percent of UK roads.
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New Partnerships for Nestoria

Property search engine Nestoria has recently entered into three white-label partnerships in Spain, Germany, and the UK.
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nestoria.co.uk Adds More Rentals

UK-based property search engine nestoria.co.uk has just partnered with rentright.co.uk to expand its rental listings.
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Tesco and Spicerhaart’s Website Online

“We simply sell homes” is the tagline of the new website – isold.com – from UK supermarket chain Tesco and estate agency group Spicerhaart. The website states that its service has been launched for Bristol, with a full launch coming soon.
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Rightmove Revenue Down in 2009

Rightmove plc’s revenue for the 12 months to 31 December 2009 fell by 6 percent from £74 million to £69.4 million as a result of estate agency branch closures in 2008.
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Another Surge at primelocation.com

primelocation.com says cold UK weather is continuing to drive property hunters to search for homes overseas. According to the portal, searches on its international section increased by 134 percent between January 2009 and January 2010, and by 25 percent compared to December 2009.
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Portals Honoured by smarta.com

UK property portal zoopla.co.uk, For Sale by Owner portal tepilo.com, and parking website parkatmyhouse.com are all among smarta.com’s inaugural “Smarta 100″ – a list of “remarkable companies who have gone the extra mile to differentiate themselves from the market or found clever ways to compete”.
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OFT Calls for UK Innovation

The UK’s Office of Fair Trading says more innovation is needed in the home buying and selling process, as the housing market remains dominated by traditional estate agents with weak competition between them on price.
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rightmove.co.uk Best Optimised Portal

globaledge.co.uk’s list of the top 20 best optimised overseas property portals has just been released, with rightmove.co.uk taking out first place.
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XML2U links with themovechannel.com

XML2U, a data file generator that aims make adding and editing property portal listings easier, has teamed up with international property portal themovechannel.com.
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