“More Information Please”

Are you planning to come over to Brittany in France and do a spot of House Hunting and you need places to stay?
We have launched a new site (www.france-rent.com) which is filling up with quality gites, chambre d’hotes and hotels.

The latest gites to be added are “Villas Heol la Torche” - several cottages located close to Quimper and only a few metres from the Pors Carn beach. You can see the gites HERE. If you prefer you can go directly to the Villas Heol website. 

To see all of the accommodation offered on our new site, click HERE

We have just undergone a small upgrade on the site and also improved the look and use-ability of the site as well….just in time for the New Year build-up.

We have made the main photo and the thumbnails larger so that it is easier to see the property.

We have made the main body of the site larger so that more information can be displayed.

We have added a search box to the header of the main body.

We have added search navigation to listings so that users can scroll through their listings one at a time.

We will be adding help to all fields on the admin section over the coming weeks.

The results so far (albeit a VERY short time show increased page views per visit, increased contact rate, more time spent looking at property and a lower ‘bounce’ rate (people who don’t actually look at anything on the site).

As you probably know if you use FranceHouseHunt at all, it is a free website. Totally free. We don’t charge for listings, we don’t charge commission if you sell a property, we don’t charge for emails and we don’t charge for featuring your property. We don’t charge at all.
As we have explained before this is because we got sick of paying extortionate prices to other property portals to advertise our properties. We wanted a way to get our properties seen by thousands of people without having to spend out thousands of € every month to various property portals. We also wanted other agencies and private sellers to be able to use the same facility at no cost to them. This is especially important at the moment with the property market as it is….we have to make savings wherever we can. Thus FranceHouseHunt was born.

We truly never in our wildest dreams expected to it to overtake some of the more ‘established’ French property portals. FranceHouseHunt has grown massive. This has led to its own problems. The site was intended to ‘run itself’. The site was meant to cost very little to run. And it would have ‘run itself’ and it would have been cheap to run IF it hadn’t grown so big so quickly.

We have had to move the site to a new server capable of handling the massive amount of traffic we get everyday - the server now uses over 20 gigabytes of space and uses 1-3 gigabytes of bandwidth every day. We now have to help, advise and answer questions from people buyers and sellers alike) throughout the day.
We have to maintain and update the site most days.
We have to work to ensure the site continues to rank well in the search engines (and to rank better). 
We work (or pay people) to develop new features for the site. 

This all costs money and time. 

Because the site has grown so much, without the support of our advertisers we would not be able to afford to run the site (we only make money from banner ads).

Without a resource like FranceHouseHunt you the property seller (whether an agency or private seller) would not be able to get the exposure your properties need without paying out money.
You would not get the quality leads we generate (i.e. we don’t attract people to the site who are looking for a recipe for French toast or a kir royale and who enquire about a property because they are curious but have no intention of taking it further).
You wouldn’t be getting as many visits to YOUR website/web-page (after all, how many of the other French property portals have a link directly to YOUR site from every one of YOUR listings?).

So, help us to help you. I know its a cliche and you’ve heard it before, but it is true in our case. Help to keep FranceHouseHunt free and get more visitors to the site so that YOU can benefit.

How can you help?

Add a link from your site to ours from somewhere (anywhere) on YOUR site. It can be a text link or a banner. It can be anything you like, please, just add a link. If you need a banner we do have some available HERE.

Thank you