Texas-based HomeAway, one of the world’s leading online marketplace of vacation rentals, with sites representing more than 640,000 paid vacation rental home listings throughout 168 countries, has launched an online marketing campaign via the popular new social media Pinterest and Facebook. The promotion is called ‘Homeaway Dream Vacation Contest’ and participants are encouraged to ‘Pin to Win.’ The grand-prize is a $1,000 US, which will be applied towards a vacation rental stay, and five runners-up will receive a $100 gas (petrol) card. The contest runs from April 16th to … [Read more...]

As the world goes more ‘mobile’ and increasingly accesses the internet via devices such as the smart phone and iPad, so does the PC go the way of the Dodo bird. According to technology experts, predictions are that desktop computers used at home and in offices, will do doubt be displaced by the tablet in the very near future, thus becoming the primary and favoured computing device. Tablet sales are estimated to jump to 375 million by 2016, in contrast to the 56 million sold last year, according to a report by Forrester Research. Researches indicated that most tablet users keep … [Read more...]

Registers of Scotland have released their quarterly property statistics. There is no accompanying commentary news release with this quarter’s official property statistics. As a government body RoS is adhering to the publishing guidance for the election period which runs until 4 May 2012. http://midaspropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ros_statistical_report_jan-mar2012.pdf … [Read more...]

People are becoming increasingly optimistic about the housing market in Scotland, a survey has revealed. The Bank of Scotland Housing Market Confidence tracker showed a third (33%) of respondents believe property prices will rise in the next 12 months, compared to 23% who expect them to fall. As a result, the headline House Price Outlook balance, which shows the difference between the proportion of people that expect house prices to rise rather than fall, increased to an overall score of 10% in March, more than double the reading of 4% in the same survey carried out in … [Read more...]