Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Welcome to the first post of the Propertastic! blog

So why is there a need for a Propertastic! blog, you may ask, when there is a website in existence that’s already bristling with information on international property and real estate?

This blog will be an outlet for me, Nick Pendrell – the public face of Propertastic! – to give my own thoughts on the property markets in Central & Eastern Europe plus the emerging Mediterranean in areas where they don’t necessarily fit onto the main website. It will also allow me to digress from the main focus of the site, such as into countries that Propertastic! doesn’t yet cover. It also gives me the opportunity to correspond direct with visitors to Propertastic! No one has all of the answers when it comes to investing in property internationally and so I am very keen to hear visitors’ comments in the hope that we can all improve our knowledge of the opportunities available in the region.

The blog will also give me an opportunity to alert visitors of new content to the site as and when it becomes available. Shortly we will begin to produce podcasts – a weekly news roundup together with comments by yours truly, plus in-depth looks at the countries that we cover on the site.

Further down the line, we plan on producing videos that will explore each of the markets in living colour. As soon as they are ready, you will read it here first.

It will also give visitors the opportunity to see how Propertastic! grows over time. At the time of writing, the main site has only been online for three weeks and we’re in our ‘soft launch’ phase. The site is 99% finished, but it’s not completely there yet and so we’re only just starting to attract the first few visitors.

Apart from the above, I don’t really want to plan the format of the blog too far in advance. I would rather that it develops a life of its own and is guided by readers as to what it should and should not contain. I am certainly interested to see what it’s going to contain a few months down the line.

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