Yannick Laclau, the CEO of Properazzi.com the global property search engine that covers over 4 million properties in 50 countries is our guest this week.
Yannick’s Barcelona based Properazzi.com was featured on CNN’s Business 2.0 yesterday. We asked Yannick to share a few thoughts with us, and he was kind enough to oblige.
Having gone through Properazzi.com, your claim of the coverage of 4 million properties in 50 countries & 32 languages makes you the largest property aggregator website (if not largest property website); can you tell us what Properazzi.com is all about?
Definitely. Properazzi is simply a property search engine through which people can access an unprecedented number of properties to buy or rent, free of charge. We work with tens of thousands of real estate agencies and property portals to present their listings on a single website. This is so that people wouldn’t need to spend hours trawling through dozens of sites, or looking for those sites in the first place. With 4 million properties, it’s getting to the point in many European countries where if a property isn’t on Properazzi, it’s not anywhere to be seen. Real estate agents worldwide are now approaching us without stop to get their listings on Properazzi. They love it because it’s free.
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Where to Look
For those residential purchasers whose objectives are purely financial Sweden’s largest cities, Stockholm and Goteborg will be the first places to look.
The third largest city, Malmo, is a special case in that its employment problems have been significantly offset by the Oresund Bridge link to Copenhagen (where 10% of the city’s population go to work).
Research has shown a significant correlation between local immigration and property prices. Sweden’s population is expected to increase only slowly in the medium term but some areas of southern Sweden and the greater Stockholm area could see much larger increases.
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Tags: stockholm, goteborg, malmo, swedish+property, swedish+real+estate
Where to Look
The basic choice is quite simple; Zagreb, the Croatian capital, or the Dalmatian coast. The former is more likely to be seen strictly from an investment perspective while the coast can be viewed either that way or as delightful for owner use. The Dalmatian coastline offers a choice island or mainland destinations and all sizes. With the exception of a few locations such as Medulin, which have large communist era tourist developments, what you nearly always get is plenty of history and atmosphere. Even Pula, a former Austrian naval base, has a fantastic Romanamphitheater, while the Istrian resorts of Porec and Rovinj are less than 60 miles away from Venice (to which they both have ferry services) and like cities further south, Dubrovnik or Zadar for example, are strongly reminiscent of Italy’s centres of renaissance culture.
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Tags: zagreb, dalmatian+coast
We resume our Buyer Guide series with a look at
Switzerland, which we last covered in late July when news of the repeal of Lex Koller was announced.
Where to Look
Although only a small country and, moreover, one that has a highly defined identity in public consciousness,
Switzerland does offer a number different themes for the investor/visitor. For skiers the choice of property may be decided by the appeal of particular resorts or concerns about the effects of global warming on lower altitude ski slopes. This is likely to increase the popularity of the most mountainous cantons, such as Graubunden (Grisons) or Valais. For other investors the choice may be a matter linguistic skills deciding whether they opt for a French-, German- or Italian-speaking district.
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Tags: swiss+property, graubunden, valais, berne, buying+property
Approached from the sea Abu Dhabi’s densely packed high rise buildings give the impression that can grow no further but the reality is that planned expansion will increase the city’s area and population (currently about 1.8m) over the next few years.
Where to Look
The modern city of Abu Dhabi only dates back to the sixties and it is still a city trying to establish and nurture its character and create differentiation between neighbourhoods. The town plan on Abu Dhabi island conforms to a grid pattern with very high density building (20 storeys is normal) along the shoreline (The Corniche). New developments on other islands, some of them man-made, and the mainland are making great efforts to distinguish themselves with cultural features (Saadiyat Island’s Guggenheim Museum) or resort style attractions as with Reem Island or Al Raha beach. However, in several cases these developments are only at the planning stage, all-be-it far advanced.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007 
Posted by Overseas Property Mall in Internet Marketing, Interviews, Online Start-ups
