Which Property Website Should London Tenants Use?
The number of UK property sites keeps growing and growing… The latest addition is Property Index, and PropertyLive.co.uk might be launched next week at the Agency Expo.
While competition is good, I believe that the wide selection has left tenants spending more time on the search. Just when you seem to have found a great site - it appears that the selection of properties is too small, and you have to move on to another one.
Using 2-3 sites is not too time consuming, and that’s what I would recommend but which are the best ones?
We need your recommendation!
Which property website do YOU think London tenants should use for searching rental flats and houses from estate agents? Why?
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Which Property Website Should London Tenants Use?
- PrimeLocation.com (44%, 45 Votes)
- FindaProperty.co.uk (38%, 39 Votes)
- Globrix (8%, 8 Votes)
- Nestoria (4%, 4 Votes)
- That site is not listed here! (3%, 3 Votes)
- Rightmove.co.uk (2%, 2 Votes)
- Zoomf (1%, 1 Votes)
- PropertyFinder (1%, 1 Votes)
- Property Index (0%, 0 Votes)
- Properazzi (0%, 0 Votes)
- DotHomes (0%, 0 Votes)
- Hotproperty.co.uk (0%, 0 Votes)
- Homes24 (0%, 0 Votes)
- Fish4Homes (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 103
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October 8th, 2008 at 11:26 am
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.
So that’s my two cents
October 9th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
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
October 9th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
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…
Godo luck in your search - Long live the portals..
for now the numbers speak for themselves
Ben.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
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…
October 9th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Thank you - Poppy, Michael, Ben, Raj - for taking time to write down the reasons.
Long live the portals and the people behind them;)
November 6th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
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November 18th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I found my place through Winkworth (www.winkworth.co.uk) and found their site upto date and always relevant, since they operate their own site independently each office updates as and when property is available/unavailable.
Unlike some portals or large sites which often update once or twice a day and display properties which are long out of date or appear because their are issues with their uploads etc.