Nestoria UK Blog

Dearest Nestoria fans, today marks a big day for us, we’ve expanded Nestoria beyond the shores of the UK with the launch of nestoria.es !!!!

Why Spain?
Over the last few years Spain has been one of the fastest growing EU property markets, especially with new property developments. Given that some of the Lokku team comes from Spain it seemed natural to try to adapt our skills to the Spanish market.

As with the UK, we came to the conclusion that a vertical search engine like Nestoria is a useful tool for part of the property buying or renting experience. We look forward to working together with everyone in the Spanish online real estate sector to help make finding a property a simpler and less stressful process.

Some key points about our new child:

• Over 250,000 listings of houses (adosados o chalets) and flats (pisos) to buy and rent. We’ve been able to partner with some of the biggest sites in Spanish online real estate to provide property searchers with one of the most comprehensive databases online. (and will hopefully have more coming online soon).




• We know many UK property searchers love the local information we provide about each area, and Spanish users are no different. We’ve added standard local content overlays like schools for all of Spain and public transport for the major cities. We’ve also been able to partner with some cool Spanish sites to give our new Nestoria a more human and fun feel. Check out photos from our friends at photo sharing site Panoramio and points of interest submitted by the users of Tagzania. Finally, we support the internet revolution by allowing you to see free wifi from the foneros. Of course this is just a start and we’ll be adding more (and more relevant) local content over time.




• Besides our standard web interface, we of course offer RSS feeds and our webmaster tools in Spanish. Help yourself to our customisable Property Lists and our DropIn maps for your website. Co-branded search isn’t available yet, but will be by the end of this week.




• Our full property data API is now extended to allow any developer anywhere access to UK and Spanish property data. We’ll push out a few Spain specific tweaks by the end of this week.




• Nestoria just wouldn’t be Nestoria without a blog (and attentive readers like you). For those of you that habla un poquito please subscribe to our Spanish musings.




• For now nestoria.es is in Spanish for Spanish speakers. We may in the future offer a search engine of Spanish property (second homes, vacation homes) for UK buyers. We may also offer versions in other languages like Catalan, Basque, Galician.

We know we have a lot to learn about property search in Spain (and indeed about property search in general).

As all long time readers of this blog know, we try to pride ourselves on all aspects of the search experience: relevance, usability, comprehensiveness, and freshness. We think we’re off to a solid start, but it will take time for us to fine tune the Nestoria algorithms and user experience to provide the optimal Spanish homes search experience.

Nestoria isn’t perfect, but you can rest assured that, just like in the UK, we’re hard at work on learning from you, our users, to provide the optimal way to search for property.

Some of the proud parents:

A big muchas gracias goes out to everyone who helped make this possible. It was a lot of work from the whole team here in London, and we had great assistance from a few folks in Spain. Making something as simple to use as a search engine is very complex.

As always we look forward to reading what you have to say, either via the Nestoria UK feedback form or en castellano.