Five Sweet Chocolate Box Properties
It looks like after a five-month long chase by Kraft, a sweet deal is about to be signed to buy Cadbury.
So, as a tribute to Cadbury, we’ve put our new keyword search tool to work and unwrapped five stunning chocolate box properties for you.
1. £950,000, 5 bedroom detached house in Astrope, Tring, Hertfordshire
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2.£595,000 – 3 bedroom property in Nettleton, Chippenham, Wiltshire
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3. £545,000 – 4 bedroom detached house in Glinton, Peterborough
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4.£469,950 – 3 bedroom detached house in Cockington Village, Torquay
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5.£329,000 – 3 bedroom detached house in West Wickham, Cambridge
Add comment January 19, 2010
Ten properties with…a snooker room
After the defeat of Ronnie ‘The Rocket” O’Sullivan at the snooker Masters this weekend at Wembley, we decided to use our fabulous new Keyword search tool and find out how many properties are for sale on Zoopla.co.uk with a “snooker room”.
Our search found 143 properties available for sale on Zoopla.co.uk with a “snooker room” and here are ten ranging in price from £2.4m to £375,000.
1) £2,900,000 – 6 bedroom house, Beech Drive, Ringwood Estate, London, N2
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2) £2,800,000 - 6 bedroom detached house, Dennis Lane, Stanmore, London
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3) £2,790,000 – 7 bedroom detached house, Weston Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire
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4) £2,750,000 – 5 bedroom detached house, North Road, Hale, Cheshire
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5) £1,495,000 – 4 bedroom house, Slack Hall Farm, Horwich, Bolton, Lancashire
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6) £499,950 – 4 bedroom detached house, Upland Road, Upland, Wirral
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7) £485,000 – 4 bedroom detached house Scudamore Close, Pontrilas, Hereford
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8 ) £435,000 – 5 bedroom detached house, Moresby Parks, Whitehaven, Cumbria
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9) £435,000 – 5 bedroom detached house Denyer Court, Fradley, Staffordshire
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10) £375,000 – 4 bedroom detached house Church Lane, Bottesford, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire
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Add comment January 18, 2010
New feature: Keyword property search
Here’s a staggering statistic for you – property searches on Zoopla.co.uk were conducted at the rate of one every 0.46 seconds in 2009. With 86,400 seconds in a day, that’s a huge amount of searches taking place across the site on a daily basis.
However, previously for sale and to rent searches on Zoopla.co.uk have predominantly been sorted by location, price, type and number of beds…until now.
From today, you can now search property listings on Zoopla.co.uk by any keyword you want! That’s right, any keyword relevant to you – garage, studio, parking and so on.
After running a location search (in this instance Bedford) the ‘Refine for sale search’ box will appear on the right hand side of the ‘for sale‘ and ‘to rent’ results.
Within this box (see image below) a new field called ‘Keywords’ appears just below ‘Price’. It looks like this (take a look at the image below):
Here’s an example of the search results for properties for sale with a garage in Bedford – 297 results in total to choose from:
Results for 'garage' as keyword
You can also search for exact phrases by using quotation marks e.g. “double garage”, or to exclude a term you can prefix it with ‘-’ e.g. -studio.
So, if you’re looking for properties with a ”Koi Carp pond”, try this £1,485,000, 5 bed property for sale in Kent:
If stairlift is a requirement, then try this £204,950, 2 bedroomed flat in St Albans, Hertfordshire:
Perhaps you need a “snooker room” then how about this £525,000 7 bedroomed detached property in Doncaster:
We’d love to hear what you’ve been searching for. Leave us a comment below or send us a message on twitter.
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Zoopla.co.uk reaches number two as it turns two!
Zoopla.co.uk is officially two years old today.
That alone is great news, but we’ve also had some other exciting news – we’re now the number two most popular property website in the UK, according to industry (Nielsen) statistics for November and December.
Below are a few major milestones from the last 12 months which (not wishing to blow our own trumpet) we think makes pretty astonishing progress so far.
So, we’d like to say a BIG thank you to all of you who continue to support us. We really value your feedback, word of mouth support and input to the site. Please keep it coming.
Key milestones in 2009 for Zoopla.co.uk:
January – raised a further £3.75m bring total raised to £5.5m
February – launched for sale and rental agent listings product
July – acquired Thinkproperty.com from Guardian Media Group
August – acquired PropertyFinder Group from News International
October – named ‘Best Property Portal 2009′ (Daily Mail UK Property Awards)
November – completed integration of acquisitions onto single platform
Add comment January 15, 2010
81% of home-owners expect home values to rise in first half of 2010
This time last year, confidence in the property market was at rock bottom and the outlook was bleak. But, a year is a long time in the housing market and, whilst the recovery is still in its infancy, optimism is now back to levels not seen since the credit crunch began in 2007.
The shortage of homes for sale has prevented any improvement in transaction levels over recent months, but with increased confidence amongst owners about putting their homes on the market to match the pent-up demand from buyers, means we could see a welcome boost to the recovery of the housing market.
In our latest Zoopla.co.uk Housing Market Sentiment Survey four out of five UK homeowners believe that property values are set to rise over the first half of 2010. This is a marked turnaround from just one year ago, which marked the low point for housing market confidence, when only one in five homeowners was optimistic about the house price outlook.
Here’s a snapshot from the results above:
What will happen to values over the next 6 months?
Of the 10,732 respondents to the survey (of which 9,938 were home owners), 81% expect that home values will rise, with only 10% expecting values to fall over the next six months. The average growth predicted amongst those surveyed is for house prices in their area to increase 5.4% over the next six months whilst, somewhat unrealistically, they expect their own home value to rise by 5.7% over the same period.
Compared with 3 months ago, is it easier or harder to get a mortgage now?
Confidence alone is not enough to boost activity in the housing market and much depends on the availability of mortgage funding. 75% of those surveyed claim that it is no easier now to get a mortgage than three months ago, placing the onus on lenders to work to increase confidence and help further lift the transaction volumes.
What signs would make you think the property market is improving?
Homeowners signalled in the survey that the clearest indicator to them of a property market recovery would be evidence of greater market activity in their local area – both in terms of more properties on the market for sale and more transactions taking place.
Which of the following, if any, will you do over the next 6 months?
Homeowners also indicated an intention to improve their properties in the coming months. 42% of homeowners stated they would be embarking on home improvements over the next six months, which may signal a greater willingness to get homes ready to put on the market.
Please feel free to share and use these findings, all we ask is that you credit the source as the Zoopla.co.uk Housing Market Sentiment Survey.
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