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Reallymoving regularly present papers about the distances people move. Whilst they use the timely term “migrate” they recently reported that people move on average 75.3 miles in the UK, a little under the average 14,000 miles of an Arctic Tern! In keeping with this blog’s tradition of presenting useless statistics I thought it would be [...]
Following on from a previous post on how Estate Agents can sell a house in 3D using Google Sketchup, I’ve just seen this new 3D interactive floorplan solution called Open3dHouse. It appears that this floorplan software gives agents more interaction than Metropix, with the ability to move furniture around, change materials etc, but doesn’t appear to offer the static images [...]
We have just bought some new web servers to keep our estate agency software running smoothly and have continued our convention of using Muppets and Sesame street characters for their names by choosing Kermit and Scooter. In the past we have had Bert and Ernie, which was probably not our wisest decision as Bert lived [...]
According to Stephen Fry on Last Friday’s QI entitled “Fakes and Frauds”, the average estate agent has the same vocabulary as a budgerigar called Puck (which holds the record at 1728 words). I was appalled at this statement and spent the weekend attempting to prove him wrong. I have been successful and have proved Stephen [...]
It’s that time of the year when all the 18 year olds go out and get drunk to celebrate whatever A level results they achieved. Here at dezrez it reminded all us oldies just how long ago we last sat exams. I’m a software developer so since my A levels I’ve had the option of [...]
We must be over working our head of support – when he answers the phone he always says “Hello Dezrez, how can I help?”. All very commendable, but perhaps not appropriate when he’s using his own mobile and its his girlfriend calling! All of which is just an excuse to let you know we are working on [...]
This one claims that people take 21 minutes to choose their new home. Perhaps what they are inferring is that the average length of a viewing is 21 minutes? What’s your experience? My wife and I knew we’d found the right house within about 2 minutes of seeing our current home, and I’m sure the [...]
