Look4aProperty.com Launches New Overseas Property Search

It has been interesting watching the growth of Look4aProperty.com since its launch in February 2006. A well built website with simple and easy to use navigation has been well received within the online “technical community” as well as with Estate Agents and Property Seekers in the UK. An initial trickle of properties coming onto the website has developed into a very robust portfolio – it claims to advertise in excess of 100,000 UK properties already.

In a move into the ever-growing Overseas Property sector, Look4aProperty.com has now launched its new overseas property “channel”. The new overseas property search function contains properties from all around the globe including Spain, France and United States. Within just two weeks Look4aProperty has managed to encourage estate agents to add over 15,000 properties, of which over 5,000 properties are in Spain alone. Within just one week this is a significant chunk of the Overseas Property advertised on the other major UK property portals.

As per the UK properties, maps are provided (courtesy of Google) displaying the location of each property in a given location. Website users can also choose to specify prices in GBP, USD or EUR as required which is a unique but very useful feature for Overseas Users who may not be used to dealing in British Pounds.

Look4aProperty.com view the launch of the Overseas "channel" as the final item of main functionality required to complete the planned Phase 1 of the website. According to CEO Aaron Turner they are now developing "…new and exciting products which will revolutionise the UK property portal market and how people search for properties in the UK and overseas."

Look4aProperty.com founder Aaron Turner was not however forthcoming when asked about new products in development. "Everyone at Look4aProperty.com is delighted to have finally launched our overseas section. Our 20 strong development team has been working on this new channel for over 6 months. We had planned to launch this new product before Christmas 2006 but some unforeseen technical issues prevented us from bringing it to the market at this time despite being under some pressure from the market to release this product on time. Clearly the large overseas agents and developers have been waiting for a new player to enter the Overseas Property portal marketplace and we have been stunned by the level of response from advertisers so far."

Turner continued, "We see the launch of our overseas section as now completing the launch of Look4aProperty.com. 2006 was an exciting year for us but anyone thinking about launching a national UK and overseas property portal really needs to understand just how difficult it is to launch into this space now. The other large players are very established, all having been online prior to the year 2000 and all are owned by large media companies or are public companies. Breaking into this space is tough however, we have reached all of our objectives set for 2006 and are extremely excited about 2007. By year-end we plan on making Look4aProperty.com a household name. We have some extremely exciting products to bring to the market over the next couple of years; we can’t wait for it to happen. We also have a £100m 5 year marketing budget which will blow our competitors out of the water. Watch this space."

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