Following our announcement last week that we’d experienced our highest ever Sunday traffic levels, we’ve only gone and broken another in-house record.
Our Research team have confirmed that the month of July 2009 saw more visitors coming to FindaProperty.com than ever before, with an average of over 3,900 visitors to the site every single hour!

The number [...]

Our research team have been busy scrutinising our traffic levels and tell me that on 26 July 2009 we broke the existing record for the number of visitors logging onto the site on a Sunday.
Last Sunday, we recorded an average of 113 visits every minute. The previous Sunday record was on 22nd February 2009 when [...]

Following on from Joss’s post below about studio houses, here’s a random fact for you: Dante Gabriel Rossetti wasn’t just an artistic pioneer; he was also one of the first men in England to die in a bungalow.
This, admittedly, was because he was also one of the first people in England to live in a [...]

We have an interesting graph this week from our research team showing the relationship between falling stock levels and rising prices.
According to our figures, stock levels in the sales market are down 21.7 since their peak in February and have fallen month-on-month since then.
Significantly, house prices stabilized in April and have been on the rise [...]

Ever had problems finding a gift for the garage owner who has everything?  Yep, me too.  It’s an all-too-common problem these days.
But not any more! An enterprising German company has come up with the perfect solution: photo tarpaulins in handy garage-sized dimensions.

Take your pick from a staggering array of designs.  Yacht; racing car; jet plane; [...]

Anyone see Property Snakes & Ladders the other night? Quite an interesting show about the conversion of an old railway station.
This put me in mind of a couple of very cool homes I’ve come across recently – both made from old railway carriages.
First up is this one in Dorset – which looks a bit like [...]

Our technical chaps are always busy trying to come up with clever new features that make life easier for our users.
So when Barry from the ‘Build Cool New Stuff’ team was seen running naked around the car park roaring “Eureka!” we knew that either A) they’d come up with something quite good or B) old [...]

Here’s an interesting graph from Nationwide’s latest house price index (June) showing the decline in the amount of property currently on the market.
It’s using data from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and it doesn’t need a huge amount of explanation: basically, since the credit crunch, stock levels in the sales market have plummeted.
In RICS’ [...]

*** UPDATE 24/7/09 Alan has now done his plinth stint and very entertaining it was too. Well done sir! ***

Walk around Trafalgar square in Central London and you will notice that one of the plinths is lacking any customary statuary.
Known as (wait for it) “The Fourth Plinth” it was originally meant to [...]

Unlike Jocelyn some of us didn’t want to remortgage our homes and go to Glastonbury this year to spend four days in a soggy tent listening to the constant thump thump of the dance tents.

No sirree, that’s not for me. I stick two fingers up to Glasto and have instead created the Staying At Home [...]