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Nothing slow about this tortoise. Skilpad.Com Property Portal has just passed the 100 000 property listings mark.

Skilpad.Com which lists property for free for South African estate agencies was launched in 2008. This tortoise is going places!

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South Africa’s fastest growing property portal, Skilpad.Com is fast approaching the 100 000 listings mark.

Currently more than 95 000 properties from leading estate agencies in South Africa are searchble online at www.skilpad.com or on mobile at http://mobile.skilpad.com.

The latest South African property group to list on the portal is Chas Everitt International Property which came on board last week.

Property groups or independent estate agency offices in South Africa which are not yet listed on Skilpad.Com are invited to list for free by registering online at www.skilpad.com. Subscribers can choose between automated listing or manual listing via a control panel.

Skilpad.Com Property Portal has developed three  great-value opportunities for South African estate agencies to own their own great value real estate websites.

The website packages complement the portal’s standing offer to South African estate agencies to list their properties for free on Skilpad.Com. Aimed primarily at small estate agencies that do not yet have their own personal website presence, the packages provide agents with the opportunity to list an unlimited number of properties on a tried-and-tested website platform with their own branding and own domain name (.co.za or .com).

While these low-cost packages provide an ideal entry point for small agencies to own their own patch of cyberspace, they are robust and reliable enough to provide a website presence for any agency. And one of the spinoffs for agencies that use these websites is that they benefit from the ongoing addition of free new features arising from the ongoing development of Skilpad.Com itself.

More information on the Skilpad.Com real estate website options is available at: http://www.skilpad.com/websites.php?menu=agents

Social media like facebook and twitter continue to change the way that people interact. But are they effective in real estate marketing?

If you have experience or knowledge of successful social media marketing of real estate, I would love you to comment on this post. I would be especially interested if you have pertinent feedback on marketing South Africa real estate.

Powerful, yes. But can it be harnessed?.

My gut feel is that while social media are nothing short of revolutionary when it comes to connecting people for genuinely social reasons, they will not so easily be harnessed by marketers to promote their products and services — or properties.

Social media evangelists state somewhat provocatively that social media “are the economy” and that soon we won’t search for products and services, they will find us! I agree that certain standout products and services will benefit enormously as a result of online friends recommending them to one another. But I wonder if marketers will be able to utilise this peer-to-peer-recommendation potential at will. I suspect that the ever expanding army of social media users will become skilled at filtering out “spam”.

But even as I write, great marketing minds are eyeing the spoils and preparing their campaigns. What are your thoughts and experiences?

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Skilpad.Com Property Portal has develolped an innovative regional wiki that allows visitors to contribute directly to the development of the portal by posting information about any cities, towns or suburbs in South Africa.

The idea of the wiki is to create a fun way for website visitors to participate in the portal’s goal of providing useful information about all the different areas of South Africa.

It is easy to participate. Simply click on one of the regional links at the bottom of  www.skilpad.com , e.g. About Eastern Cape , and then click on a town link, e.g. About Port Elizabeth. Then click on the “Know Port Elizabeth?” link indicated by our new website character “Torty” the tortoise, and follow the simple instructions. You can use the wiki to add useful information or photographs.

After approval by Skilpad.Com, the content you add will appear on the appropriate regional page, together with links to a map of the area, properties for sale or to rent in the area, and estate agencies in the area. If you would like to add content about a particular town or suburb which is not yet activated on the wiki, please email an activation request to andre@skilpad.com .

We look forward to your participation!

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South Africa’s fastest growing property search portal, Skilpad.Com is adding property research to its range of services.

The idea is that the growing number of property buyers and real estate professionals who regularly visit Skilpad.Com to view property for sale or to let will now also be able to tap right into a wealth of relevant property-related data and information. Visitors will benefit immensely from having one comprehensive and easily accessible destination for all of their property search and property research needs.

In a first step towards implementing its ambitious research goal, Skilpad.Com now has economic indicators (currency exchange rates, etc.), property calculators (for determining bond costs, affordability and payment strategies) and a property news feed. Soon, these humble beginnings will be reinforced with deeds office data (title deeds, suburb price trends, online valuation), mapping data and a storehouse of other statistics and tools that will provide visitors with information that will assist them to make wise property decisions.

Watch this blog for more news on research developments on Skilpad.Com!