At the request of our customers, a new statistic was added in the Your Account section. Home owners can from now on see the number of times that their property was placed in the favourites by the visitors searching for a property. This meter is accessible on top of the graph showing the consultation statistics. The visitors who have a property in their favourites receive an email whenever the description of the property is modified by its owner.

ByTheOwner.com will be integrating in the next days the use of RSS feeds for the diffusion of the ByTheOwner Alerts. The visitors searching for a property will be able, with a single click, to create a RSS feed corresponding to their search criteria, and thus to be the first to know when the house of their dream gets live on the website.

RSS feeds are soooo cool ! But… why?

A RSS feed (Really Simple Syndication), is a XML file which a Web site diffuses in order to spread easily its contents. From the feed’s url, one can daily consult the new contents of the site without being forced to go on the website. Okay… so what? Why wouldn’t you want to go to the website?

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