A Big Week in Mobile

The past few days have seen a number of developments in the world of mobile property search, with news from nestoria.co.uk, loopnet.com, seloger.com, and immobilienscout24.de.
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seloger.com Updates iPhone App

French market leader seloger.com is seeing plenty of interest in its iPhone application, with a reported 180,000 downloads since its September 2009 launch.
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Google Real Estate in Europe – What is All the Fuss About? Lessons from Australia

The news yesterday that Google was “entering” the UK/European market sent the share prices of Rightmove and Seloger into a tailspin. The Seloger share price closed down 5.7% at €23.50 while the Rightmove share price was hammered a whopping 10.3% to 499.9p.

So let’s look at what happened. An article by the Financial Times (Dec 2 titled “Google set to enter UK property market”) seems to have set the cat amongst the pigeons. The article stated that Google is in talks with British estate agents and that “experts” say that an entry by them to the market could pose a serious threat to existing property websites. The article didn’t talk about what Google was going to do and Google didn’t comment. So there is really not much to go on. So the only guide we really have as to what Google may do in the UK and Europe is what they have done in Australia.
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seloger.com Reports Record Audience

Leading French property portal seloger.com has released its nine month revenue figures, showing a total of €54 million – a one percent increase over the same period in 2008.
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meilleursagents.com Mobile Android App For Paris

Last week leading French property portal seloger.com was the latest to reveal an iPhone App, with “push notifications“, bringing it in line with competitor logic-immo.com, which has had its own iPhone App in the market for several months.

This week we can report that France’s meilleursagents.com has taken things one step further by releasing a mobile android application. The app displays the property value of every single building in Paris in price per square meter.

The “layar empowered augmented reality app” allows users to see at street level, through their mobile phone camera, the value or prices of real estate in Paris.

Users launch the application, place their phone in front of them and steer toward the building of their choice. GPS identifies the location and orientation of the phone and estimates of house prices from meilleursagents.com then appear in real time on the phone screen, above the camera image.

The company claim this is the first application of augmented reality real estate in France.

You can watch a video demo below:

Augmented Reality demo using Google Android + Layar from MeilleursAgents.com on Vimeo.

Stay tuned for many more android releases as the real estate industry cottons on to possibilities offered by this latest technology.

seloger.com Pushes iPhone App

Leading French property portal seloger.com is the latest to reveal an iPhone App.
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Seloger 1st Half 09 Results And New Site

French property portal company, Group Seloger.com, has released its first half 2009 results, which show an increase in both revenues and net profit.
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seloger.com Revenues Up 2.1%

The leading property portal in France, seloger.com, has revealed that its parent company, Group Seloger’s, consolidated revenues for the first half of 2009 totalled EUR35.5 million, an increase of 2.1% relative to the same period last year.
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Top 100 Global Property Portals?

globaledge.co.uk have released a top 100 list of the world’s property portals. Although the list is somewhat arbitrary, and the methodology focusses on SEO and the number of internal links to a portal, it’s a worth a look at the top twenty they came up with:
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seloger.com Forges Strong Lead

The leading property portal in France, seloger.com, has reported unparalleled audience figures in the Mediametrie/Netratings Internet rankings for February 2009.
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