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• Tesco launches isold March 19, 2010
  Way back when … Tesco spent a huge chunk of money on a property portal.   You will all recall that the DTI, fish4homes and Spicer Haart were all names thrown up during those heady days.  The DTI investigated, fish4homes pulled out and Spicer Haart picked up the leftovers with promises of joint ventures with Tesco. Well, [...] […]
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• Rightmove, the INEA and mypropertyforsale.co.uk February 17, 2010
  The INEA newsletter popped into my inbox as it always does with a bold headline giving the impression of a tabloid newspaper.    I am always half expecting to see a headline along the lines of ‘Agent sells house on the Moon’! Anyway, this week’s sensational news was ‘Rightmove promotes UK private sellers homes website’.   A [...] […]
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• Robin Hood Tax February 10, 2010
  Riding through the Glen    I just liked this: […]
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• Our new community February 4, 2010
  Well, we have been busy putting up the new Property Owl community (the old Juicy Red Apple), social network, real estate network, gathering place, whatever you would like to call it. We naturally believe this to be a good thing and I have had many positive comments, only one negative comment and one weird comment.   [...] […]
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• Rightmove price increase January 29, 2010
  As you may know, I don’t normally jump on the Rightmove bashing bandwagon, but I see on estateagenttoday that Rightmove are to increase their charges by 20%. What is it with these guys?  First, they say google are rubbish, don’t worry about them and then go on to say,  in fact…. we are so good we [...] […]
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