AND news - March 2009
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Motors.co,uk launches Safe Buying Guide
Jobsite celebrates double Onrec Award win
Jobsite increases reach in North West
Motors.co.uk Launches Safe Buying Guide…
26th March 2009
This year, thousands of crashed or stolen cars will be offered for sale – and snapped up by unsuspecting buyers. And thieves will pocket close on £90m of your hard-earned cash.
To combat the problem, motors.co.uk has got together with TV presenter Quentin Willson to produce Real or Rogue, the Safe Car Buying Guide.
It’s packed with essential advice on how to stay safe when buying and gives a step-by-step guide to how to check for a rogue car, what to ask to ensure that the seller is genuine and how to handle the purchase without getting ripped off.
To watch Quentin's and motors.co.uk's video explaining how to keep safe when buying please click here.
Alternatively to download your own copy of the guide, please click here
Jobsite celebrates double Onrec Award win…
26th March 2009
Jobsite is today celebrating winning both awards they were short-listed for at last nights Onrec Awards. The Onrec judging panel selected Jobsite as the winner for both Innovative Offline Marketing Award by a Generalist Job Board, for their recent brand campaign and Best Technical Innovation by a Generalist Job Board, in recognition of BeMyInterviewer.
The Awards are designed to recognise and reward innovation, success, growth and achievements in the online recruitment industry. Jobsite faced tough competition in both categories but won through with the launch of their heavyweight multimedia brand advertising campaign featuring Max Beesley and the success of their video interview practice site BeMyInterviwer, which has seen over 2 million interview questions played in its first year.
Keith Potts, Jobsite CEO, comments, “We’re thrilled to have won both Onrec Awards that we were short-listed for. We’re extremely proud of both our brand campaign and BeMyInterviewer and it’s great to receive external recognition for their successes. So many people put vast time and effort into both of these projects and these awards serve as huge thank you to them. These Awards are also important in showcasing to our clients our success at innovative candidate attraction.”
For more information, please contact:
Vicky Taylor
Jobsite UK (Worldwide) Ltd.
Tel: 0844 561 9000
Rents continue to fall thanks to a surge in the supply of property on the market, says FindaProperty.com's new Rental Index…
4th March 2009
The new rental index, prepared using a methodology devised by Calnea Analytics - (the company who produce the official Land Registry index) - reveals that the rental market is flooded with excess stock.
In the past six months the number of rental properties advertised on FindaProperty.com has almost doubled (up 43 per cent between September 2008 and February 2009).
Over the past month stock levels have risen by eight per cent.
This rise in the number of properties on the market has had an inevitable impact on rental prices which were down -1.2 per cent over the month (compared to 0.6 per cent in January) and -4.8 per cent over the year.
The largest price falls have been in the North West where values have tumbled by -14.3 per cent over the past year. The speed of the downturn here accelerated in February 2009 with prices plunging -8.2 per cent on the previous month.
London, however, is a tale of two cities with rental values falling steeply in the more upmarket central boroughs (City -11.7 per cent y-o-y) but holding up well, and even rising, in the outer boroughs (Hillingdon +6.7 per cent).
The average UK rental asking price now stands at £830pcm, £10 lower than in January and £42 lower than February 2008.
Gross yields remain unchanged for the fourth successive month at 4.6 per cent.
Andrew Smith, Head of Research, comments:
"The credit crunch and the downturn in the sales market have led to a very significant increase in activity in the rentals market.
"This is most dramatically demonstrated by the amount of stock currently available – a trend in part being driven by frustrated vendors listing their properties on the rental market and in part by an increase in turnover as tenants become more willing to move to secure better properties or more affordable rents.
"Tenants are the real winners in this situation – they have a huge stock of property to choose from, often high-quality owner-occupier stock – and are in a strong position to negotiate on rents and/or services.
"Despite falling rents and increased competition, we do not expect investors to abandon the market. Gross yields remain stable and could improve as house prices continue to fall.
"There is anecdotal evidence that some cash-rich investors are finding bargains in the current market that exceed the average yield by several percentage points.
"However, this is a more difficult and challenging market for investors, and one in which professionals with considerable capital are better placed and more likely to succeed than amateurs reliant on borrowed money."
Please click the following link to read the full Rental Index report.
Jobsite increases reach in the North West
3rd March 2009
Leading online recruiter Jobsite (www.jobsite.co.uk) has partnered with 21 new local business directory sites to increase its reach across the North West.
Jobsite is the official job board partner of the Publication Sales & Marketing Limited network of sites, which provide business directories, news and entertainment guides to key towns and cities across the North West. Visitors access Jobsite vacancies through the ‘Job Finder’ tab on each site. This displays the number of vacancies within a 10 mile radius of the site’s location and offers a simple search function enabling the user to find the exact job that they want.
The network of sites currently live includes Preston4u.com, Bolton4u.com, Bury4u.com, Chester4u.com, Chorley4u.com, Leigh4u.com, Leyland4u.com, Runcorn4u.com, Skelmersdale4u.com, Southport4u.com, Sthelens4u.com, Warrington4u.com, Widnes4u.com, Wigan4u.com, and Belfast4u.com. The following sites will be launching later this month: Blackburn4u.com, Burnley4u.com, Ormskirk4u.com, Salford4u.com, and Stockport4u.com.
Keith Potts, CEO of Jobsite.co.uk says; “We’re continually focused on extending our candidate reach across all regions and sectors so that we can work for all of our clients vacancies. This new partnership is fantastic as it helps us to further strengthen our presence in the North West, enabling us to provide more quality applications to our clients who are recruiting in this region.”
Pauline Hardie, Managing Director of Publication Sales & Marketing Limited says; “Our network of sites is very popular with people wanting specific local content. To increase our offering to our users we wanted to include jobs, cars and homes in their region. We approached Jobsite to partner with us from the recruitment side due to the number of diverse vacancies they have to offer each of the sites in our network. We’re excited to have them partnering with us and to helping our users find new jobs.”
For more information, please contact Vicky Taylor, Jobsite UK(Worldwide) Ltd, on 0844 561 9000