homeinblog – news from homein.com real estate search portal

The homein.com technical team are coming close to finishing the mammoth task of migrating the entire homein.com website from .net to .php programming language.

We have taken the decision to migrate to .php as it appears to be a more flexible, powerful and superior code base as proven by being the language of choice for most internet greats, i.e. Google, BBC, Amazon etc.
Cristian Suazo and the tech team are currently applying the final touches to the changeover, then begin the thorough testing. Once passed a quality control the homein.com site in .php will be viewable on November 1st 2009.
No difference to the real estate search procedure or the feeds from real estate agents will be noticeable and no action need be taken by any of our clients.

Engel&Volkers Girona office are busily adding more properties to the homein.com Costa Brava & Girona website.

E&V’s team said they appreciate the exposure that homein.com is giving their properties by not only displaying their luxury properties on the homein.com site (see the Engel & Volkers agent page on homein.com here) but thanks to the homein.com system feeding their properties out to many other property portals such as Trovit, Nuroa, Enormo and even Google Base. With homein.com feeding these unique top end of the market properties to other sites Engel & Volkers need only upload to the homein database and our system automatically takes care of distributing those properties with an XML feed out to partner sites each morning at 4 a.m.

It’s nice to be working with a quality real estate agency like E&V that understand homein.com offers a lot more than most other simple publishing portals.

homein.com Managing Director Paul Lupson and Silvina Flores, homein.com’s Marketing Director are celebrating the birth of their first child, Damon Leo. Damon Leo was born in homein.com’s home town of Barcelona at the end of August 09.

The Alexa ranking position of homein.com has risen by another 2500 places to 601,537.

The constant rise of the homein.com ranking position could be due to the constant improvements being made to the real estate search website by our team, based here in Barcelona, Spain.

homein.com’s Google Page Rank remains a 3, we’re looking forward to the next PR update from Google though as we’ve recently added over 25 new locations to the real estate search website which should influence our ranking positively.

homein.com continues its strong growth with the launch of 25 new websites, each website focusing on property sales & rentals in a specific location in Spain.

Users will now be able to use the unique easy map search that differentiates homein.com from other real estate portals and find property in all important Spanish cities, such as Alicante, Bilbao, Valencia, Malaga, Seville and Zaragoza in addition to the cities homein.com has already had online for over 2 years now, i.e. Barcelona, Madrid, Marbella and the Balearic Islands.

The new homein.com Bilbao site with list showing some of the 33 Spanish cities homein.com real estate search now operate.

Take a look at the full list of homein.com real estate search locations here: http://www.homein.com/destinations/

homein.com wants to expand to several new locations – to do this quickly we’re offering the first 3 real estate agents in each location 1 year of free advertising on homein.com

- are you a good quality real estate agent?

- does your agency have an XML feed of property?

- do you have more than 50 properties on your books?

if so and you are in one of our target destinations then get in touch with us and you could have free advertising in homein.com for 1 year!

(if you’d like to know a bit more about our “3 free for 1″ promotion read it here)

we occasionally tweet some of the amazing properties we have on the www.homein.com websites – follow us on twitter right now www.twitter.com/homein

The Alexa ranking of homein.com has gone up 1 million positions in 6 months, from 1,600,000 in March 2009 to position 603,935 of today September 12th, 2009