Poll Results: Which Property Website Should London Tenants Use?
Time to reveal the results for the poll that we posted early in October!
Our question was: Which property website do YOU think London tenants should use for searching rental flats and houses from estate agents?
We hear it’s wise to search from more than just one website these days - some agents use only Globrix, some only FindaProperty.com.
With that poll we were hoping to clarify which ones are the best to use today, in order to avoid wasting time on sites that are, for example, still in very early stages of development or maybe don’t have as much choice of rentals.
So here are the top 3 property websites that our readers suggested:
1. Primelocation.com 43 votes
2. FindaProperty.com 39 votes
3. Globrix 8 votes
These are the 3 websites renters should use or start with when looking to rent an apartment or house in London (from an agent). The rest of the results can be found here.
While I understand that most of the voters must have been representing one or the other website nominated - the result matches our current preferences. Obviously they are working hard on informing the end users!
Here are some comments from the people behind the websites:
Poppy Dinsey said:
Yes, I am completely biased because I work at Globrix…but I spend a lot of time on all of these property sites and as a renter in London I genuinely think Globrix is the best for would-be London tenants.
The main reason I think Globrix is better is that you get the best picture of what’s available, we’ve got fantastic market coverage of London rentals. Then of course there’s the fact you can search by specific road names and specific key features…balcony, designer kitchen, roof terrace etc. You get direct access to the letting agent, no annoying forms that keep you stuck on Globrix forever. And of course, you can search by ‘freshness’, in the fast moving London rentals market, knowing that an ad is less than a week old is important to many searchers. On so many of the incumbent portals, you can be looking at rental ads that were filled with tenants months ago.
Michael O’Flynn said:
In reply to Poppy above, think I should point out that:
1. Here on FindaProperty.com we have had a recency filter on our search for some years now - people searching for London rentals (and we have massively comprehensive coverage - over 55,000 properties advertised at present) can filter by last 24 hours, last 3 days, last week, last month.
2. We have full contact details of agents on the site … email addresses and telephone numbers. Globrix don’t. They send you out to the agents’ sites so you then have to waste time navigating lots of differently designed sites to find these details/register with agent etc …
3. We don’t have ‘annoying forms’ - to register (which you don’t need to do to use the site) you only need to add an email address, name and password.
4. You can register with us to have email alerts matching your requirements delivered direct to your inbox - which really is useful in the fast moving London rentals market
It’ll be interesting to see how the poll results pan out!
Thanks
Michael O’Flynn
Ben said:
In order to justify which website to use for your rentals, if you are in the market to find a rental I would use as many as i can - spending 10 minutes on each and saving your contacts and contacting them by email or phone - all these websites survive by you looking at them and more importanly contcating them via the websites.. try and remember this when looking at portals. DOnt just call them direct without respecting the portals business.
In terms of choise - Findaproperty & Primelocation is a great start to look for rentals - one for the whole general market - and Primelocation maybe listing properties of a special nature mid to high end renters…
Good luck in your search - Long live the portals..
for now the numbers speak for themselves 
Ben.
Raj Doofitz said:
The choice between Primelocation and Findaproperty is the only one the searcher need to make, and that is relative to their needs. Primelocation has 400,000 properties and more than 100,000 international properties which is great for the luxury property searches or investment property potentials or quality agents to secure rental accommodations, whereas the FAP site tend to be more affordable properties. So I suppose it depends on the user’s needs.
Both sites are easy to use and offer Email Alert services to make your search a lot easier, make the sites work for you whilst you are of doing something more pleasurable like shopping for furniture for your new pad…
