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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.

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!

homein.com developments continue, rentals now available priced per week or per month, as used in Australian property market.

On the advice of our friends in real estate agency CBRE Australia, we now display rental properties priced per week or per month, depending on the real estate agents preference. Sydney real estate will soon be appearing on homein.com/australia/sydney keep an eye out.

If you are a real estate agent, with an XML property feed, in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth or Adelaide we’d love to hear from you. Come and take advantage of a nice long free advertising trial and help us get homein.com/australia off the ground. Email paul.lupson@homein.com for more details now.

Describing the size of a property in square metres or square feet now possible.

Until today it’s only be possible for real estate agents to create a proeprty description using square metres, however in the USA and the UK square feet are still used to measure the size of a property for sale or rent. Preparing for rolling homein.com real estate search out into more destinations it is now possible for client estate agents to choose to describe a proeprty in square metres or feet.

This update is also available in our xml feeds in the element <size_unit>, for more information see: http://sites.google.com/a/homein.com/xml-feeds/

homein.com will soon begin recruitment of real estate professionals in New York City, if you are a real estate agent there, have an xml feed and at least 50 properties, be one of the first 3 agents to sign up to homein.com and have 1 years free advertising. Contact Alex.Urbiola@homein.com now.

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, who speaks italian perfectly on alex.urbiola@homein.com
Gli agenti immobiliari in Italia interessati a lavorare con homein.com devono contattare Direttore Commerciale Alex Urbiola, che parla perfettamente l’italiano sulla alex.urbiola @ homein.com

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 main Spanish cities and towns and areas.

Recently we launched our currency converter tool to let property hunters get a better feel for the property prices in their own currency. This also means that real estate agents now also can upload properties in their own currency.

homein.com has been selected as an advertising platform for banks like Santander, http://www.homein.com/estate-agent/altamira-santander-real-estate/ and Caixa Sabadell, http://www.homein.com/es/inmobiliaria/caixa-sabadell/ who now have thousands of properties to sell due the economic crisis of 2009.

If you are a real estate agent outside of Spain in a destination not currently offered by homein.com then please contact our commercial director Alex on alex.urbiola@homein.com . We’re giving free trials to the first 3 real estate agents that signup on new destinations!

We have several exciting improvements planned for 2010, thanks for your interest in homein.com during 2009, happy holidays to you all.

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

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 are looking for. A bigger title of the property search box makes it clearer for the user of what the can search here and to finish off this round of clean up we’ve removed the minimum price field, i mean, who decieds they ‘don’t want to spend LESS than X amount’

Take a look for yourself here: www.homein.com/spain/costa-brava-girona

More design update touches coming soon, to make homein.com real estate search even easier.
homein.com is rocking its way through the real estate crisis!

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, homein has done a soft launch in Dublin so if you’re planning to buy property over there us out, www.homein.com/ireland/dublin/ .