Check out the new Private Property website

After many months of design, frantic coding, usability studies, changes, more coding and more testing, we can now show you our new website (still in beta or test form). All going well, we’ll officially change over to our new site by 1 September 2010, and we need your help in the meantime to test it out.

Quality of Listings on Private Property

Private Property’s mission is not only to get the best quality property content in the industry. Part of that is eliminating duplicate listings or mandates on our website.
It’s our policy is not to knowingly allow duplicate listings, however this can be difficult to police and enforce because we rely on you, our estate agents, to [...]

How about a great branding opportunity for your agency??

If you are serious about establishing your brand or making sure that the biggest audience of property buyers knows who you are then you cannot afford to miss out on our new product offering!
Increase your exposure to SA’s biggest online property audience with Private Property’s latest marketing tool, the list results banner.
What’s it all about?
As [...]

Private Property’s Virtual Tour Network

At Private Property, it is our mission to be the most effective digital marketing platform for property in South Africa. Part of doing this is improving our service. We’ve built a network of Virtual Tour Contractors, enabling us to service our customers all over the country within a reasonable turnaround time.

Bouncing Debit Orders A Challenge

At Private Property we like to keep our operating costs as low as possible so that we are able to charge our clients as little as possible. Instead of penalizing all our clients by increasing our listing fees, we would like to focus on the culprits.

Private Property Teams Up With MSN SA

We’re very excited to share with you our latest news, which is that we’ve officially become the real estate partner for MSN South Africa from the 1st of this month. Private Property now powers the property content for MSN/property, which is going to add a whole lot of additional exposure to your listings.

SPAMS & SCAMS

You’ve heard it said ”It only takes one bad apple to spoil the apple cart”.
So, with Private Property as the busiest property website in South Africa it doesn’t come as a surprise that from time to time we are targeted as part of a scam campaign.
As you may know, Private Property offers landlords the opportunity [...]

Private Property website hits another record

Private Property attracted over 500 000 people to our various channels again in May. The Private Property website had another record month, with just over 420 000 people visiting our website, generating over 8.5 million page views (see the graph below). We also sent out over 1.1 million individualised property alert notifications to registered buyers and tenants [...]

Private Property is increasing its views on YouTube

The two biggest search engines in the world are Google and YouTube, and now YouTube has also officially launched in South Africa. The majority of people browsing the internet are using one of these two major search engines whether it is for house hunting or other interests, and Private Property is ensuring you get maximum exposure from both of these sites.

Use our technology to its maximum – sms notification boards

Private Property has always been proud of the technology edge that we are able to push in offering benefit to all parties engaged in buying and the selling of property in South Africa. One of these has been the sms notifications that any agent or seller can use to instantly get the property details transferred [...]