Some good has come out of Association of Residential Letting Agents ARLA joining forces with NAEA, ICBA & NAVA to form National Federation of Property Professionals NFOPP – a new website.

It was about time they renewed it, as the old design left many first visitors thinking the site might be abandoned. Usability was actually not that bad in the old version, in my opinion.

But let’s see what’s changed, with our comments:

New Logo – Quite typical with the house images but definitely better than the last one drawn in paintbrush.
New Design - Like the colours a lot – much easier for the eye.
Information Fact Sheets – Like that. The information used be all over the place.
News & Events – Better to sort. Wish there was an RSS but that’s probably in the making already;)
Professional Development - Now this is a much better title, which used to be called Training.
Agent Search - Conveniently on the left bar menu all the time. You can either choose by London area/borough or by entering agent’s name.

Screenshot of the old version in 2007 (via Web Archieve).

In conclusion, we’d like to say that we, as tenants, love the new website. ARLA has a really good business card in it’s hand now, and hopefully this will encourage letting agents to develop further professionally.

Go explore the new ARLA website!