How the UK’s top-end real estate is changing hands

£140m - Park Place, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

How top-end real estate is changing hands (mostly) among foreign buyers.   1. £140m - Park Place, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire Bought in August 2011 by an unnamed Russian billionaire from Michael Spink, the UK-based property developer. 2. £136.4m - Penthouse, One Hyde Park, Knightsbridge, London Sale announced in April 2011. Bought by Rinat Akhmetov, 44, Ukraine’s richest man, from Nick and Christian Candy, property developers. 3. £117m - Palace Green, Kensington Palace Gardens, London Related Articles Britain's … [Read more...]

Estate Agents – What type of content sells property?

Pitsligo Road, Edinburgh Showroom

The Property Particulars. It used to be that every property, regardless of size, required a property brochure or Property Particulars. Is that still true today? Today, all of the information inside the property particulars can also be found on your website and on property portals; which only makes sense as we know that no one is going to buy a property without first finding you online. Websites now have the role in the communications campaign that we used to assign to the brochure. It is the central pivot point around which all other efforts revolve, and it is the place consumers turn to … [Read more...]

The ESPC launches TV Campaign

ESPC - Midas Property Consultants

Take a look at the ESPC's new TV ad, it previews tonight on STV, just after Corrie! http://youtu.be/tNCyluTnK4I Property website ESPC will today launched a new TV advertising campaign which will include a number of prime-time slots across STV.  The new TV campaign will run for several weeks and will supplement the ongoing sponsership, print and digital advertising activities currently undertaken by the ESPC. The new marketing campaign has been designed to increase the ESPC brand awareness and drive even greater performance for its member Solicitor Estate Agents. The ESPC is … [Read more...]

Amazing maps show Twitter and Flickr activity around the world

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These maps created by Eric Fischer combine data from the photo-sharing website Flickr and the micro-blogging network Twitter. The orange dots represent pictures uploaded to Flickr, while the blue dots are tweets, and the white dots represent locations that have been both tweeted and uploaded to Flickr. On this world map, you can see that people tweet most in North America, Britain, the Netherlands and Japan, as expected, while scenic areas such as Iceland, Scotland, New Zealand and the game reserves in Africa see more photographic activity. Orange dots = Flickr photos; blue = tweets; … [Read more...]

A Private Paradise – Luxury Tropical Island Yacht.

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Everyone dreams of exceptional things wainting to happen, of memories waiting to be gathered and of creative ways to explore the surrounding world. This fascinating tropical island yacht project is a dream come true for its designers, the UK based yacht design company Yacht Island Designs. The floating tropical island would be made out of steel and would measure 90 meters in length, plenty of room to build a luscious and luxurious environment that would sail away in the sunset. A volcano built on the yacht guides water flowing down to the pool, where huts and luscious greenery surround it. The … [Read more...]

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