Renthusiast2.0

Properazzi.com can boast to be the first official 2.0 pan-European property search engine with a listing database of about 1.3 million properties from damn near every country in Europe, both sales and rentals. Properazzi also has the ability to search for properties beyond Europe, I found search results for Turkey (officially/unofficially Europe), and was able to perform searches in Israel and Cairo, but unfortunately wasn’t able to find any listings there (yet). I’m not sure if this is by design, or if the developers intend to expand the database to include Africa and the Middle East. Given Dubai’s volcanic property market and growing markets in Qatar, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi, it may not be such a bad idea.
But for the moment, Properazzi comes with the standard Google Map API, and uniquely offers users the ability to price listings in 90 different currencies and to perform searches in 30 different languages. It’s fairly easy to navigate the map, although I did expereince some difficulty in zooming in on specific local neighborhoods in London such as Clapham Common, or Sofia in Bulgaria. Nevertheless, the search box did a good job producing results for these locations and the results page offers users a feedback feature which invites suggestions to new property websites, which is quite thoughtful.
Overall, Properazzi.com offers an enjoyable and rather satisfying search experience. The site has also been shortlisted for the Red Herring 100 Awards, a celebration of the 100 most innovative companies in Europe, which will be held later this month in Cannes.