Property portals merge

The new portal brings together properties for sale and rent from agents such as Anscombe & Ringland, Chancellors, Foxtons, Hamptons, John D Wood & Co, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, Winkworth and many others across the UK.

The Propertyfinder website will be relaunched shortly with a brand new image and the logo above. It will have a total of nearly 65,000 properties from 900 offices, including 4,000 international listings.

Targeting the mid to higher end of the residential market with listings from the UK’s most progressive agents, the all new propertyfinder.com will offer its member agents:

- Access to the 1.25m property seeking visitors that come to propertyfinder every quarter .

- An average of 136 electronic referrals per office/month (e-mails and visits to member agents’ websites).

- Direct access to homebuyers searching via Google, Channel4.com, and other partners.

- No restrictions on other internet sites that agents might choose to use.

- Around half the monthly cost of primelocation and at a much lower cost per lead.

- Brand awareness three times its nearest competitor .

- A major advertising campaign, including weekly advertisements in the Sunday Times.

And for home seekers, the advantages are obvious: a wide range of leading properties available for sale and to rent from progressive agents, all in one place.

Nicholas Leeming FRICS, Sales Director of propertyfinder, comments: 'We are delighted to welcome the Pureproperty.com agents on board; their range of listings fully complements our existing mid to higher residential market profile. The combined site clearly offers the nation's best search facility for this sector of the market, yet at a far more competitive rate for our clients than our competition.

'Propertyfinder is the longest established yet now the fastest growing property website in the UK and we have ambitious plans to grow the site yet further.'

Ian Simpson of pureproperty.com added: 'Combining our strengths with propertyfinder creates the market-leading portal for the middle and upper market properties. The new site will offer an unrivalled property service for both sales and lettings agents as well as for homehunters.