14th January 2002
Primelocation gives property buyers and renters a bird’s-eye view through Getmapping aerial photography
Aerial photographs of 41,000 exclusive properties in England and Wales are now available through Primelocation.com, the UK’s primary property portal. Getmapping has agreed to provide on-line Internet access to the recently completed Millennium Map, the first complete aerial photographic survey of the UK. This will provide property seekers, member estate agents and lettings agents with a unique bird’s-eye view of properties for sale.
Visitors to the Primelocation website can get details of a wide choice of properties listed exclusively by over 275 registered estate and lettings agents throughout the country. With the addition of high quality aerial photographs, property seekers can look at properties from the air and assess the surrounding area to see if it meets their needs. This is another extremely useful and timesaving tool designed to make the house hunting process more interesting whilst saving considerable time at the initial research stage, all from the comfort of home.
The agreement also covers the supply of localised road mapping to provide detailed property location. Agencies registered with Primelocation and hosting their own sites will also benefit from the agreement, allowing them to extend this functionality to their own sites with full access to both aerial photography and road mapping at discounted rates.
Providing up to date, mapaccurate aerial photography of the area surrounding a property of interest allows buyers and renters to judge its suitability, situation and character. With 100% coverage of England and Wales and with Scotland and Northern Ireland becoming available in 2002 even those looking for a property in rural areas will be able to view an aerial image of potential new homes. With floor plans, room specifications and photos of the properties for sale and the new aerial images supplied by Getmapping, Primelocation can now offer the best property location service currently available on the web.
Notes for Editors:
GETMAPPING
Getmapping plc is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of aerial photography to the public and private sectors. The company was set up to produce and exploit The Millennium Map™ the first complete, seamless digital aerial photographic image of the UK.
Getmapping has opened up its imagery to commercial users via the Internet with its Imagexpress service. Visitors to the Getmapping website can view the whole of its dataset at 2 metre resolution, orders can be placed online and the imagery delivered by e-mail or on CD. In addition the Imagexpress Plus service provides access to high resolution data on a pay as you view basis. Imagery can be downloaded to disk or printed on demand making this a very fast, flexible and cost effective method of acquiring aerial photography for the business user.
Getmapping also offers its aerial imagery in a number of other formats, including hard copy photoprints or framed certificates, has a complete range of education products and publishes a series of Photographic Atlas’s in association with Harper Collins.
Editorial & advertising enquiries please contact Robert Peel on 01666 823306 (Fax 01666 824668)
All Reader Enquiries to Rachel Eddy, Sales and Marketing Director at Getmapping on: 01530 835685
PRIMELOCATION
Primelocation is a property portal aimed at the upper and middle market for residential sales and lettings, listing the properties of 275of the country’s leading Estate Agents with approximately 900 offices between them. Participating Agents list their properties 'exclusively' with Primelocation, which now has 40% of the UK market by value for properties between £200,000 and £500,000 and 75% of the market by value for properties selling for over £500,000. In total, Primelocation.com lists properties for sale with a combined value of more than £15.5 billion as well as a substantial portfolio of properties to let.
During November 2001, some 275,000 property searches were conducted with more than 5 million individual property details viewed.
Visitors to the site have a choice of search channels
*UK residential sales.
*UK residentiallettings.
*UK new homes.
*Internationalproperty.
*Farms, estates andland.
*Commercial property
Estate Agents with Primelocation include FPD Savills, Knight Frank, Chesterton, Cluttons and Strutt & Parker.
Contact Joanna Hayes, Sales Manager, PrimeLocation.com, Renoir House, 136 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2TH Tel: 020 7290 4412 E-mail