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homein.com property search now live in Italian

homein.com real estate search website is now available in Italian aswell as English, Spanish and German.
homein.com sito di ricerca immobiliare è ora disponibile in italiano oltre che in inglese, spagnolo e tedesco.
Welcome to our Italian visitors!
Benvenuti ai nostri visitatori italiani!
Real estate agents in Italy interested in working with homein.com should contact commercial director Alex Urbiola, [...]

Happy holidays 2009

2009 has been an exciting year at homein.com. Amongst the things we’ve done we’ve migrated from Microsoft .NET to PHP, the visual map search has become faster and the look and feel on the homepage has changed. We’ve also gone from offering property for sale in 5 locations in Spain to over 30 of the [...]

Choose your currency

We now give you the option to choose the currency you want to show your prices in, a nice little feature to help you find your home easier. Check it out on www.homein.com

New location page design launched at homein.com

Following hot on the heels of the new home page design (now with the typical easy-to-use homein.com map navigation) we have updated the design of the search box in the left column.
The homein.com property search box is now in our cool corporate green colour and has been simplified to help users find the property they [...]

New homepage layout

Recently our developer Victor spent some time on implementing a new idea Paul has had for the  homepage look and feel. The new version shows a Google map with all destinations were homein is currently active. To check it out just go to http://www.homein.com/ .
But wait a minute, Dublin is also there. Yes that’s right, [...]

Searching properties has never been so fast

Usability and speed on searching a property was not as fast as it could have been so guess what, we made it faster. Currently we’re trying the new search on our destination Sant Cugat in Spain, try it out:
www.homein.com/spain/sant-cugat/
In the coming week we will roll this change out to other Spanish destinations like Barcelona and [...]

Another easy usability test of homein.com

at homein.com – the spanish property portal we like to test our site on real people.
Please help us to refine our design, try this 5 second test: http://fivesecondtest.com/test/V9z0enAz
We really appreciate all of you who do this.

homein.com usability testing – join in

participate right now if you like, it will only take 5 seconds… quite literally!
click here to test: http://fivesecondtest.com/test/t4GQfCel
usability testing is one of our major considerations here at homein.com – the user is always right afterall!

Promising contacts made at barcelona Meeting Point

homein.com Commercial Director Alex Urbiola and Managing Director Paul Lupson visited the annual real estate event ‘Barcelona Meeting Point’ last week.
Alex quickly made some very promising contacts with some very well know Banks that have rather unwittingly become real estate agents due to the amount of reposessions being made during the economic downturn.
The banks, including [...]

homein.com 50% faster after code migration complete

Right on schedule homein.coms’ entire code base was migrated from .net to php on November 1st 2009.
The benefits of the site now using php programming language are immediately obvious with the site being 50% faster to load and use. Clearly this speed increase means homein.com users can now search for their real estate even [...]