Introducing turtlehomes.co.uk

Online banking, shopping delivered to your door, holidays booked with the click of a button! From ebay to Amazon, the power of the internet has evolved the way in which we buy & sell. With 84% of active home movers starting their search for property online the internet is a must have tool for any successful modern estate agency. The internet has now become the main driver of viewings leads for estate agents. Portals and websites such as findaproperty, rightmove and primelocation have become essential in the ever growing battle for market coverage.

How does this affect me you may ask?

Introducing turtlehomes.co.uk A fresh and revolutionary approach to selling your home ONLINE. turtlehomes.co.uk are an ONLINE estate agency with a twist, fusing traditional agency methods with new and innovative technology their aim is to provide you with a quality service at the fraction of the cost of your local high street agent. For Just £500 + Vat fixed marketing fee & £650 + Vat on completion turtlehomes.co.uk will provide you with

• FREE Home Information Pack,
• colour photos, floor plans, local press advertising,
• a distinctive ‘for sale’ board,
• extensive internet coverage across at least 28 websites,
• daily mailouts of your property to extensive mailing lists,
• valuation & home visit if required,
• unique vendor login allowing you to track your progress, Sales progression through to completion from your account manager,
• Viewings arranged, monitored & feedback acquired,
• No contract tie in period,
• No multi agency fee’s
• a personal & friendly service!

“Our team have spent many years working for high street estate agents we have seen the internet evolve and improve the way in which agents work. We have had to adapt, buyers require information (24/7) here & now, vendors needing that selling edge over competitors. With turtlehomes.co.uk we believe we have the right mix of latest technology and traditional customer service all provided at a low cost fee”.

So how do turtlehomes.co.uk provide all this and still charge a low fixed fee I hear you ask….! Simple, as they are an ONLINE estate agent they don’t have expensive overheads such as rents and rates. By using the latest technology and computer software they have successfully streamlined their systems to ensure that all of their time is spent on the important stuff - selling your home.

We are no ordinary online estate agency; by providing the services of a high street agent and dramatically lowering overheads we can provide this new and modern service with the saving passed directly to you the homeowner.

Where did the name turtlehomes.co.uk come from?

Well with the service and fee being so unique to the local market we thought it necessary to give the company a like minded name! The best way of selling houses in this or any market is to be noticed and stand out, a company name that customers & purchasers will easily remember!

Whether you are buying or selling click online or call turtlehomes.co.uk on 0845 073 6633 to see just how much you could save!

Property sales may pick up in the next few months

Property sales may pick up in the next few months, according to a survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics).

It says lower house prices have prompted renewed interest from potential buyers, especially those who already own a house or flat.
However first time-buyers are still largely locked out of the market.
Despite this recent rise in new buyer enquiries, Rics warns that the market will remain relatively subdued.

"Our suspicion is that this improvement in activity levels is likely to be sustained over the coming months; mortgage approvals could climb above 35,000 [per month] on the back of the higher level of buyer interest," said Simon Rubinsohn, Rics chief economist.
"However, this would still be well down on the high for the cycle as well as being significantly below the long run average," he warned.
"By no means could this relatively small pick-up in transactions be seen as representing a move back to a more orderly housing market."

Lower prices
Rics has seen new buyer enquiries rise in the last three of its regular monthly housing market surveys.
It regards these findings as a good indicator of near term tends among house buyers, pointing to a pick up in sales, which slumped by more than half last year.
And this prompted it to ask its members what type of buyer has been sniffing around, and what sort of home they are interested in.

It found that 71% of surveyors thought that low prices were the main factor attracting interest.
Prices have dropped by about 20% since their peak in the summer of 2007, according to surveys by the Halifax and the Nationwide.
About three quarters of surveyors also thought that existing owner occupiers were showing some interest, while just a quarter reported that first-time buyers were looking around.
And existing houses, rather than flats or newly but properties, were the overwhelming focus of the interest being shown by these potential buyers.
"Interest from owner occupiers is likely to persist over the comings months as those with large deposits look to capitalise on the drop in house prices," said Mr Rubinsohn,
"However, a sharply deteriorating employment picture may eat away at this improvement in sentiment pushing potential buyers back to the sidelines."

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Property Portal Wars!

Rightmove on top as portal wars continue to hot up

Friday 6th February 2009

Rightmove has come out easily on top of the four major paid-for property portals, according to the latest statistics from independent analysts Hitwise and Comscore.

Both sets of figures for December show Rightmove achieving market share of between 59% and 77%, looking at a variety of criteria, including number of visits and time spent on the portals.

The other ‘top four’ portals, Propertyfinder, FindaProperty and Primelocation, split the remaining market share as they vie for second place.

Hannes Buhrmann, head of consumer websites at Rightmove, said: “We obviously spend a lot of time and money tracking and understanding home-mover behaviour. Familiarity with a website and ease of use appears to one of the main factors behind getting users to visit several times a month, stay on longer and visit more pages of property.

“Rightmove has been the largest property website for over eight years and now accounts for one in five of all visits to property websites.

“It has a massive and loyal user base that competitor sites are finding very hard to shift, in spite of increasing the number of properties on their sites by giving their service away for free.”

However, the portals war is hotting up: on Wednesday, Countrywide, the UK’s largest chain, announced that it had done a deal with Digital – publishers of Primelocation and FindaProperty – to list all its properties.

This week, Rightmove also published the first in a series of results in a huge consumer survey. It found that only 9.2% of vendors thought this would be a good time to sell, and that seven out of ten consumers expect house prices to fall further. Two-thirds believe that it is now a buyers’ market but a number do not understand the current mortgage market, with one in six willing to borrow over four times salary.

The extraordinary survey elicited responses from over 28,000 people during a two-week period in January, with the only incentive being a chance to win one of 20 £25 M & S vouchers. Another sign of the times?

House Prices Rise in January 2009

The price of UK homes rose by 1.9% in January, compared to December, according to the Halifax.

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We are expecting turtlehomes.co.uk to be online in the next few weeks so watch this space!

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