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  • Daft Media's Latest Website Traffic Stats

    By , Posted at 4:20 pm, August 31, 2010 in Daft News.

    The Daft Media group of websites has grown to 6 and now includes daft.ie, rent.ie, let.ie, property.ie and community sites boards.ie & adverts.ie.

    The two main bodies that measure, verify and report on website traffic are ABC and comScore.

    ABC Electronic
    Results from our most recent ABC Electronic report (March 2010) show that the combined traffic for Daft Media's sites is 3.65 million unique browsers and over 165 million page impressions. This is the highest number of monthly page impressions delivered by any certified Irish website or group of websites.

    Top 10 Certified Irish Websites (ABCe)

    Rank Site Name Monthly Unique Browsers Monthly Page Impressions Period
    1 Daft Media
    		 3,654,762 165,626,429
    		 Mar 2010
    2 carzone.ie 719,085 100,697,138 Jan 2010
    3 RTE 4,052,723 75,607,413 May 2010
    4 eircom 1,033,294 37,701,807 Apr 2007
    5 Independent Digital 2,467,379 34,479,072 Jan 2010
    6 myhome.ie 339,233 26,436,425 Sep 2006
    7 irishtimes.ie 2,314,196 26,125,949 Nov 2009
    8 autotrader.ie 248,860 13,100,058 Jan 2010
    9 weddingsonline.ie 147,441 5,306,029 Mar 2010
    10 build.ie 108,304 293,38 Oct 2009
    Source: ABCe www.abcireland.ie

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  • Daft Rental Report out - Rents largely unchanged in second quarter of 2010

    By , Posted at 9:57 am, August 19, 2010 in Daft News.

    The latest Daft Rental Report was released this morning, covering April to June 2010.

    Rents across the country fell by less than 1% during this time. In July, the average asking rent in the country was just over €835 per month, down 5% on the same time last year.

    In the second quarter of the year, rents fell by between 1% and 3% in Dublin, Cork and Waterford city centres. In Galway city and Limerick city, rents increased by up to half a percent, while elsewhere in the country rents fell by 1% on average. Commenting on the report, Ronan Lyons, Economist with Daft.ie said, "The year-on-year fall in rents is now at its slowest pace in two years, suggesting that the rental market may be close to stabilising. Nonetheless, the total stock of properties available to rent remains high, which means we are unlikely to see rents rising rapidly in the near future."

    With Leaving Certificate results out yesterday, the latest figures will be welcome news for new and returning college students. This is the third year in a row that rents have been lower than the previous year. Compared with 2007, a typical student renting a two-bedroom property could expect to save between €1,500 and €4,000 over the course of the academic year.

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  • Daft.com launch first iPad app for Northern Ireland

    By , Posted at 4:00 pm, August 12, 2010 in Daft News.

    Here at Daft.com we are delighted to announce that we have just launched our new iPad App. We are the very first Property Portal in Northern Ireland to develop an app for searching and viewing properties on the iPad.

    Daft.com iPad launch

    You will notice the high-res photos look great on the larger screen, viewings can be arranged from the app and you can also check out properties in your area with the map feature.

    The iPad and iPhone apps are now available for free download from the AppStore

    We always appreciate your feedback so feel free to email us at support@daft.com or post a review in the app store.

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  • Daft.ie Releases iPad App

    By , Posted at 3:53 pm, August 10, 2010 in Daft News.

    We are very pleased to announce the launch of the Daft.ie iPad App which is now available for download from the AppStore.

    Daft.ie iPad App

    We spent a lot of time making sure that the experience on the iPad took advantage of the bigger screen and you'll notice after using the app for a while, how enjoyable it is to flick through high-res photos of properties. Maps are also a joy to use and are a great way find property in your neighbourhood.

    Since this is a universal app (works on iPhone, iPod and iPad), there are also some improvements included in this version for iPhone users. A new system for managing memory was implemented, which means that there should be no more crashing. We also made some small improvements to maps and the property details page. As always feedback is welcome and in fact is the main driver of our feature set, so let us know by emailing us at support@daft.ie or posting a review in the app store.

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