HOMELINK ONLINE COLLECTS BUSINESS EYE AWARD

Website of the month

Homelink Online is proud to announce it has won Business Eye's Website of the Month award in association with BT. The prize was collected at a spectacular gala dinner held at the Culloden Hotel.

The Judges Made the following comments...

The new website for County Down estate agency Homelink Property Services isn’t just a run of the mill estate agency site - it’s one which lets say, is a bit unique….at least to Northern Ireland. The first of its kind in the province, this site allows potential house owners the opportunity to take control of the sale/letting of their houses online. In other words, it is an innovative 'self sell' website where the customer controls every aspect of the marketing and negotiating of their home online, with the added benefit of having professional advice available at hand to aid in the selling/letting process (but only if required by the customer). Meaning, customers are invited to avail of a selection of services and work on a 'pay as they need' basis. Working on a simple 'click and select' basis, each part of the service is clearly quantified and costed, so customers can choose the number of services they require and therefore only pay for the services they need. The site was developed by a father and son team, Colum and Andrew McCloskey. Colum is Managing Director and Proprietor of Homelink Property Services and one of North Down's best known and established estate agents. Andrew, Colum’s son, who is Director of homelinkonline.co.uk, is confident that consumers will be pleasantly surprised by the benefits on offer on the site. Whilst Homelinkonline.co.uk offers customers selling their home all the benefits of a traditional estate agency service, customers are in control of the whole process for a fee of as little as £250….a radical price difference from typical estate agency fees. How many vendors have you heard say, 'my house was sold in a day' or 'the first person that viewed bought my house?’ This is where the value of this type of site really comes into play. In these circumstances, vendors could argue that they overpaid for the estate agency services, often equating to several thousand pounds. But with this new online offering, clients can now save quite a lot of money in the 'buying and selling' process. Customers who use the service can benefit from an instant internet listing & online brochure on www.homelinkonline.co.uk as well as listings on www.homelinkproperty.com and Propertynews.com. Other services include the erection and collection of For Sale boards, a classified listing in property news magazine, high street office display of property as well as personal user space to editing property details online. A clever new idea, which no doubt will attract attention of fiscal buyers and sellers across the province.