The Real Estate Blog

Website traffic to many Real Estate portals is beginning to show rapid growth. Friends and colleagues around the world are reporting a fast pick up this month after a very lethargic and crippling run up to the Christmas period. In our own case – The Khusan property portal has peaked with more visitors than ever before (with the exception of the initial launch weeks). So what is the trend and  [ Read More ]

The Free Real Estate classifieds portal Khusan which is both for property sellers and property buyers has been voted ‘best property site of the year’ by Madeira island based full service digital marketing, development and web design agency Navega Bem – Web Design. Navega Bem, which is the company that actually developed the Khusan project ran an in-depth analysis of the sites it has produced this year and took into consideration the   [ Read More ]

Results Even though we’ve entered one of the highest competition markets on the Internet – Real Estate – we can say that the first quarter of Khusan went very well. Currently 1,300 real estate and property offered and wanted ads have been hand-placed by individual advertisers from more than 70 countries worldwide. The foremost source of advertisers is by far Google with its AdWords campaign. We’re also running a broad  [ Read More ]

Even Holland’s top real estate MLS site Funda.nl has taken up the FSBO sites.

Looking into the CMS Real Estate Demo, I discover that it was hosted by Navegabem Web Design (Portugese for “good surfing”) web design company operating from Madeira Island in Portugal. I sent an email and the next morning I had Chris, the CEO and Chief Designer, on Skype. We hit it off directly. We discussed how we could use Navegabem’s extensive knowledge of real estate and property sites. I showed  [ Read More ]

The site looked quite bare without any photos to enhance the advertisements placed. Not what I had envisioned for Property Trading Place. Going back to Alex we thought we discovered the security breach, changed the chmod values (change mode – dealing with permissions to upload texts and images for advertisers) and I started promoting again to get the site filled with image content. By this time I’d gotten a line  [ Read More ]

With some persistence I was finally able to contact Rene van Mullem (Marktplaats.nl). I explained to him the strange reaction I had gotten to the brochure and I asked him what he thought about a property classifieds site. He confided in me that he was planning to do something similar in China, however he was just getting involved in RSS technology and this would most likely take all his time.  [ Read More ]

It was spring 2006 and I completed translating the brochure for Practical Solutions – offering services to business owners to start joint ventures in Central and East Europe. They had already set up a successful printing company in Romania using subsidies from the Netherlands and this knowledge could be used to help other West European companies to set up in CEE. I received the payment for the brochure, and as  [ Read More ]

If you are selling property, there is no time like the present to take advantage of the new International Real Estate Classifieds Portal – Khusan. Khusan was launched 3 weeks ago and is growing fast. Currently the portal has only a few hundred properties – so if you want your property to be found easily and rapidly – now is the time to advertise it and get maximum exposure. All  [ Read More ]

Khusan is a new and refreshing way to create free classified ads within the property market. The site offers a clean and inviting interface and allows fast user registration and advertisement placements. The concept is based on the ‘For Sale by Owner’ premise where property owners can advertise at no cost and users interested in a property contact the owner directly. Khusan, as the portal owner has no intermediary role  [ Read More ]