Nestoria

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Nestoria

Type	Private
Founded	April 2006
Headquarters	Clerkenwell, London, UK
Key people	Javier Etxebeste (co-founder), Ed Freyfogle (co-founder)
Industry	Real estate
Parent	Lokku Ltd.
Slogan(s)	"The easiest way to find property"
Website	nestoria.com also nestoria.com.au / .com.br / .de / .es / .fr / .in / .it / .mx / .co.uk
Type of site	Search engine
Available in	English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Launched	June 2006
Current status	Active

Nestoria is a vertical search engine for real estate. In terms of users, Nestoria is the 5th largest property web site in the UK (February 2012 ^[1]) and the 9th in Spain (comScore, May 2009 ^[2]).

Overview

Nestoria aggregates real estate listings from property portals and provides location-based search to Internet users. Results can be sorted by relevance, freshness, distance and type of property.

Company

Javier Etxebeste and Ed Freyfogle, two former Yahoo! executives, founded Lokku Limited in April 2006. Lokku is based in Clerkenwell, London, UK. It is equity backed by private investors from UK and Spain. The first website brand Nestoria UK launched in June 2006, the Spanish website Nestoria España in May 2007,^[3] Nestoria Italia and Nestoria Deutschland in summer 2008.^[4] ^[5] In March 2010 the company launched Nestoria Australia,^[6] followed by Nestoria France^[7] in July, Nestoria Brasil ^[8] in November 2010 and Nestoria India ^[9] in February 2011.

Websites

Nestoria is a case study of Google Maps API use^[10] and of the Yahoo! User Interface library.^[11] As a web application hybrid or mashup, Nestoria geo-locates properties on maps and combines them with Point of Interest of transport, schools, hospitals and other local information relevant to homes seekers.

Nestoria, as a typical Web 2.0 operation, co-operates with collaborative projects such as OpenStreetMap (open source mapping) or Geograph British Isles (photographs). It shares its property data via a web service with webmasters or through co-branded property search such as media outlets like The Daily Telegraph, Capital, NWN Media and Channel 4 Homes (TV-station). Other Web 2.0 feature include widgets and a Facebook application. The company operates blogs in all the languages it operates in, and regularly interviews thought-leaders from the realm of internet technology and new media businesses.

In addition to the property search engine, Nestoria's team experiments with usability interfaces and the use of APIs in mashups. The team uses the website Lokku Labs to demonstrate the various public projects that reached the status of launched for general use, often in co-operation with external developers and designers.^[12]

In January 2010 Nestoria won Yahoo!'s UK Application Platform Competition ^[13]

Criticism

As with other search engines, Nestoria's search index is as updated and accurate as the data obtained from its sources (property portals and websites), which in turn are fed from estate agents' data. The quality of the search results (e.g. if a house is still on the market or already sold) strongly depends on the motivation of local estate agents to upload accurate information and to update them regularly.

In Spain, Brazil, France and Italy, the real estate market is based on non-exclusive contracts between property sellers and estate agents. Estate agents try not to disclose the precise location of the homes on the Internet. This prevents Nestoria from geocoding many properties accurately on a map.

References

External links

Nestoria - Nestoria Property Search
Nestoria blog - Official UK company blog

Real estate in the United Kingdom

Companies

Developers and owners	Allied London Argent Group Assura Group Balkan Dream Properties Banks Group Brent Walker British Railways Property Board Bruntwood Capital & Centric CLS Holdings Coin Street Community Builders Daejan Holdings Downing Developments Goodman UK Grainger Grosvenor Group Lexi Holdings The Maghull Group MEPC Minerva London & Associated Properties Opal Property Group St. Modwen Properties Sellar Property Group Span Developments St Martins Property Group Targetfollow The Bedford Estate The Peel Group Trafalgar House West Properties

Housebuilders	Barratt Bellway Berkeley Bloor Boot Bovis Countryside Properties Crest Nicholson Keepmoat Lend Lease McCarthy & Stone Miller Muir Persimmon Redrow Taylor Wimpey United House

Property services	Adzuna Alpha1Estates Atlantis Bidwells BNP Paribas Real Estate Carter Jonas CBRE Group Chestertons CKD Galbraith RH & RW Clutton Cluttons Colliers International Connells Group Countrywide Cushman & Wakefield Cyril Leonard Drivers Jonas DTZ EC Harris Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre Foxtons Gerald Eve GVA Hamptons International Harrods Estates ISold estate agents Jones Lang LaSalle King Sturge Knight Frank LSL Property Services Movewithus Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners Nestoria Northwood Osborne King Primelocation Regus Rightmove Savills Smiths Gore Spicerhaart Strutt & Parker UK Property Shop Whelan Commercial Winkworth Zoopla

Real estate investment trusts	Big Yellow Group British Land Brixton Derwent London Great Portland Estates Hammerson Hansteen Holdings Intu Properties Land Securities London & Stamford Property Primary Health Properties Segro Shaftesbury plc Workspace Group

Industry bodies

Law and regulation

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