Online property portal Lettingweb has had the firm’s customised iPhone app included in the Sunday Times Top 500 apps for mobile phones. Read more

Google is scrapping the short lived Google Maps property search blaming low site traffic and ‘excellent’ search tools on other web sites. Read more

Customer databases are often the most expensive asset a letting business owns – and one that’s left unguarded against disgruntled staff. Read more

A new web site powered by Google advertising homes for rent and sale is aimed at taking business away from the property portals.>

Landlord web site Property Hawk is urging buy to let property owners to look up tenants on Facebook to get an idea of how they treat their homes.

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Rightmove has added a new search tool that solves the problem for home hunters inputting multiple searches when they are looking for property in an area that straddles multiple post codes.

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Property search engine Globrix claims the site now lists ‘almost every house for rent in the UK’ as the list of homes for sale or rent nudges a million properties.

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A new age is dawning for estate agency software Aquarius with an update that adds property management functionality for letting agents.

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Letting agent software firms are falling over to grab a share of the Google market by offering free, automatic property listing uploads.

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Home hunters can now find property to rent and buy by searching a new Google service switched on by the search engine today.

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