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Some of our most satisfying work is the most complex, so when we were asked by Robinson Jackson – a 30-strong branch/department estate agency in London and Kent, to re-invent their website, the whole Starberry team were extremely excited (especially since we beat eight others in a pitch situation).

A website site isn’t just for Christmas, it’s for life, right? Wrong! We’re finding that many estate agents are currently reviewing their websites in light of how people search for and talk about property.

Starberry’s StarTek Property Modules sit at the heart of all our ‘Award Winning’ Estate Agents’ websites. It sounds as though they are straight out of a sci-fi movie, but they are actually like a bunch of apps that can be ‘plugged’ in to your property sales and lettings website.

Starberry’s recently launched Clickteez is a platform that lets you make one-off custom printed T-Shirts with any design or photo in a few clicks, via our API driven Clickteez, Faceteez, and Instateez.

StarTek pre-empts what your users are interested in. Have you ever thought that your computer is reading your mind by suggesting products and brands you might like? There’s no crystal ball involved, rather a clever analysis of any search terms you might have entered.

Starberry’s StarTek keeps viewers on the crucial pages. Don’t you hate that feeling when you’ve found just what you’re looking for, but you’re taken away from the page to fill out an online form, disrupting the flow?

We have developed a set of Joomla mobile modules & StarTek mobile property modules that allow us to configure Smartphone compatible versions of our clients core Estate Agents websites via a central content management system (CMS).

There’s nothing wrong with a bit of property porn – cruising the websites of top-end estate agents, earmarking what we’d buy in Mayfair, Monte Carlo and Mauritius should we win the lottery. But what if you work at the more everyday end of the property market?

The property industry is being dragged kicking and screaming into the world of social media. As well as being requested by staff and being suggested by web designers like ourselves, it’s actually clients that are prompting estate agents to dip their toes into the world of Twitter and Facebook.

Exciting isn’t it? You’re in control of a whole host of social media accounts and post like your life depended on it. But it’s only day one and you’re not that busy. Fast forward 3 weeks when you’re understaffed, called to 20 meetings in one week and haven’t even checked your emails let alone Tweeted what you had for breakfast.

When you receive a brief from a client that states ‘we don’t want our new website to look like anyone else’s’, you know it’s going to be a peach of a job!

There’s nothing like independent recognition for your work and we’re celebrating as the website we built with estate agent Marsh & Parsons has scooped one of the property industry’s top accolades!