Rentright listings now on Nestoria

Nestoria are pleased to announce that they are now working together with Rentright, a UK website dedicated to rental properties that provide fantastic content and functionality. Property searchers can now find Rentright listings on Nestoria. Here’s how it looks:

Nestoria 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.

UK Portals - zoopla zoomf f4homes tepilo

Italian Portals - casa.it idealista.it casa click

Spanish Portals - Globaliza Fotocasa

Germany - Immonet ImmobilienScout24

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 ^[2], Nestoria Italia and Nestoria Deutschland in summer 2008.^{[3] [4]} In October 2009 the company announced they were seeking to hire team members for a future launch of Nestoria Australia^[5]. John Hart  manger of classified adventures ,ex Group Sales and Marketing Manager at REA Group, is now also general manager of nestoria Australia.

Websites

Nestoria is a case study of Google Maps API use^[6] and of the Yahoo! User Interface library ^[7]. 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 Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Capital, NWN Media and Channel4 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 ^[8].

Nestoria Recent News

In January 2010 Nestoria won Yahoo!'s UK Application Platform Competition ^[9]

^{A while back Yahoo! embraced the “if you love the user, set him free” attitude and began integrating third party content on their homepage – one of the most heavily trafficked sites in the internet. This is amazing on so many levels – great for users, daring business wise, and phenomenal technically. When Yahoo! rolled this feature out in the UK they partnered with well known brands like the BBC and TFL. That makes sense, as those sites have great content that users value. They also opened the platform and allowed anyone to build a Yap (Yahoo! Application). Which is also great, as it encourages technical innovation (which we like) - Ed Freyfogle co founder of Nestoria and lokku labs}

^{[Video] YDN Developer Spotlight: Nestoria, Winner of UK YAP Contest}

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^{[video] /nestoria also launched their AR app in Jan 2010 with several “Layars” that allow the user to find relevant local content.}

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