Alfa Inmobiliaria entrust property listings from their 208 franchises to homein

homein.com are pleased to list the entire property portfolio of another of Spains largest real estate agents Alfa Inmobiliaria homein.com/spain/

Alfa have added all 208 of their offices throughout Spain to homein, resulting in many thousands more properties in Spain being available for our site visitors.

Alfa have offices all over Spain, offeringproperty in the Canary Islands, to real estate in Madrid, right up to property in Bilbao, in the Basque country, and now you can find all their properties for sale and for rent on homein.com

Monika Rüsch Barcelona real estate agency property back on homein.com

The Barcelona and Sant Cugat real estate specialist Monika Rusch again list their luxury property on homein.com after an update to their XML feed.
We at homein.com are pleased to continue working with Jordi and the Monika Rusch team and congratulate them on their new website with a new improved search facility, homein.com is looking forward to passing on as many leads from interested Barcelona property buyers as possible.

301 Comprarcasa real estate agents add 29,800 more properties in Spain to homein.com real estate search

homein.com are pleased to announce a deal with Comprarcasa, one of Spains largest real estate agent networks.

Almost 30,000 extra properties are now available from Comprarcasa real estate agents searchable on the homein.com website. Check out the homein.com/Madrid real estate site: www.homein.com/spain/madrid/

The 29,800 or so properties in Spain are distributed all over the country, great news for Spanish property buyers as the Spanish property market is still in the doldrums, maybe you could pick up a bargain Spanish property ready for summer 2010.

8 new UK locations launched for homein.com property search

Over 2000 properties appeared on the homein.com website from over 20 more estate agents in 8 locations throughout Britain this week.

The new locations where you can now search for property sales and rentals are:

As you may notice most of these new locations are counties rather than just cities, we believe this is more useful for searching for property as you may want to live in OR near a city centre and as always we want to offer the home hunter the widest selection of property to buy or rent in the easiest search method.

Do let us know if city or county (or indeed country-wide searching is better or worse for you.

homein.com homepage gets facelift

The homepage property map and real estate search filters go into the new page format

For a while we at homein.com real estate search have been using the new page layout, large map on left side, property search filters horizontally on the top of the page.  Today we changed the homepage to go to this layout aswell in order to standardise the layout of the site and also to improve usability.  Have a look on the homein.com real estate search homepage to see the change.

hope you like the new look, let us know if you do (& don’t!)

homein.com now partnering Masterkey

homein.com is pleased to announce we are now compatible with Masterkey, one of the global leaders in web-based real estate software.

Masterkey are based in Dubai, a location in which homein.com now have Dubai and Abu Dhabi real estate websites open and ready for real estate agents in the UAE to add their properties for free.

Masterkey provides property managers with increased control, knowledge and organization of every property in their management portfolio.

homein.com managing director Paul Lupson says “we’re pleased to connect with Masterkey in Dubai, we’re very excited about having a presence in this exciting region and looking forward to welcoming all the real estate agents using Masterkey to homein.com, where they can list all their properties totally free of charge.”

Click here to see the homein.com/uae/dubai and the homein.com/uae/abu-dhabi websites.

homein.com now totally free for real estate agents

As of April 1st real estate agents can publish all their listings on homein.com totally free of charge.

An update to the business model of homein.com means that all real estate agents are able to advertise unlimited properties on homein.com, the real estate search by map portal.

Real estate agents with an XML feed and those using many other property listing software systems can quickly and easily be integrated to join the hundreds of other real estate agents already publishing their portfolio of properties on homein.com location specific websites.
homein.com is compatible with the very popular Rightmove and Globrix formats, if your estate agency is using one of these formats you can be online at homein.com right now.

To get started there`s more information here: http://www.homein.com/professionals/

homein expands to London

homein expands to London and teams up with real estate software companies.

homein has expanded to  London, check it out on http://www.homein.com/uk/london/ . Real estate agents are offered a free trial month and for the first 3 agents that have more than 50 properties an extended trial period will be offered, for more information contact paul.lupson@homein.com .

We are also searching for interesting partnerships with real estate software companies, so far we have 2 partners that have joined in to feed properties, propertyadd.com and brightlogic.co.uk .  If you have a real estate software company and want to know more on how to team up with us contact cristian.suazo@homein.com

If you already have a rightmove and globrix xml feed then hey, very good news! Those are  xml feed formats that we support, just sign up and indicate what feed format you use.

homein alexa ranking up 100,000 in one month!

The Alexa ranking of homein.com has had its biggest rise in a one month period ever. homein.com real estate search site is now hovering on the edge of 500,000 – todays Alexa ranking is 502,494 to be precise.

The constant daily improvements to the homein sites, the additional destinations going online each week and the strategic alliances between homein and other traffic providers and real estate agent software systems providers helps to maintain attention on homein and therefore help increase the ranking.

Google streetview now live

A couple of weeks ago we added Google streetview to our property ads in the destinations where Google streetview is available. Check out the Google streetview in Barcelona for example. Good job Victor!