Is it just me or do other people dislike the new layout of AllHomes http://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/. Looks to similar to the ‘other’ site for my liking.
Bring back the old format I say. What do other people think?

Is it just me or do other people dislike the new layout of AllHomes http://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/. Looks to similar to the ‘other’ site for my liking.
Bring back the old format I say. What do other people think?
I believe the information is on the public record and available from the ACT Treasury. In any case, every real estate agent in town has a report listing the previous sales history of every property. Allhomes does seem to be a bit behind lately with these figures though.
Allhomes is very selective in the past sales data it chooses to post.
I’ve often wondered about that in terms of how/where allhomes sources the information, and if a vendor, purchaser or agent is able to request the information remain undisclosed???
Well too = took.
And the bit quoted below (now above), obviously, is their response.
Long day.
Well, I actually too time to write to them at the ‘suggestions’ email address. The important bit is quoted below:
Thanks for your feedback regarding the websites. We have had various people complain about the red text and the non-highlighting of viewed items on Allclassifieds and the engineers will be making changes to the site in the not too distant future.
Allhomes is very selective in the past sales data it chooses to post. Plus it’s always way out of date.
Not only that, el… visited links don’t change colour! To me that’s a cardinal sin – ESPECIALLY on a classifieds site.
New allhomes = good. Pages load as quick as if they were on my hard drve.
New allclassifieds = completely arse.
Tiny, headache inducing RED text on a grey background? FFS.
I like it. Not more or less than the previous version. Both worked. Still the best RE site in OZ IMHO. Have always had great results whether the free classies or paying for an RE listing.
Far better, seems to load better for me and takes less mouse click to do and see what I want on there.
At least AllHomes doesn’t try to charge you to look at the previous sales data. The four bucks Domain charges just to be told the last sales price is bad enough, but $100 for the past sales data on the whole street is a rip off.
i like the additional functionality of being able to see a map of, say, inner north with all the properties for rent marked in one colour, and those for sale marked in another. or maybe that functionality was available through the old site and i didn’t notice. but i am into watching property so i would have thought i’d have noticed it before…
I still haven’t warmed to it yet… I don’t like their detailed block maps either, the other ones were better.
Sorry TAD, name isn’t Vince, and I thought most of you astute people would recognise the ‘other’ site, try domain http://www.domain.com.au/ . Sorry, not sure how to make it a link.
All aside, I swear no allegiance with AllHomes, just preferred the original layout.
‘Nough said..
From a web design standpoint the site is about 100x better than it was previously – it’s been updated to use modern page layout techniques that use far less code than the previous method, meaning it loads much faster and uses less memory on the user’s system. So while the look hasn’t changed much (although it certainly does look cleaner than it used to), it’s changed a lot ‘under the hood’.
Unfortunately that doesn’t change the fact that the site is riddled with spelling and grammatical errors and sentences that plain don’t make sense.
At least the webpage isn’t crammed with advertisements like realestate.com.au is.
If it is, tell him to synchronise his damn lips in those ads during the cricket.
I think you may be right caf
Looks the same to me. Allhones has always had some decent mapping features and historical photos wrapped up in a crap interface. No change evident.
And apart from that, the real estate websites cause so much traffic during open houses it is impossible. Far better (for renting in particular) to find something that was advertised in the paper but NOT on either website, and not end up in a bidding war against 50 other couples…
Other people are cynical enough to suggest that this is yet another attempt to use Riotact for free advertising, in this case a transparent ploy to drive additional traffic to the linked website.
If not, why not name and link your competitor, instead of just referring to them as “other”? The prosecution rests.
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