Hodgson
Elkington, the Lincoln and Newark chartered
surveyors and property consultants, have won a top
international award for their website.
The
website, designed by Wilson
Leppard, pioneers the use of interconnecting
web sites to promote commercial property in the
East Midlands to potential investors world wide.
The
Médaille d'Or for Web Site Excellence was awarded
in the words of the judges because "the
website contains a wealth of genuinely useful
information rather than just the usual corporate
sales talk".
Cutting
edge American technology has provided e-mail links
from the web site direct to the desks of
individual chartered surveyors working in the
business.
Hodgson
Elkington's own interactive property database is
now on-line and can be seen on their web site at www.hodgsonelkington.co.uk.
The web
site contains details of their whole portfolio of
commercial properties and is updated daily. The
site also contains links to other property
databases, local authority web sites and items of
interest to property owners and occupiers.
Hodgson
Elkington have also independently sponsored the
development of www.strategic-sites.co.uk
which has been designed to attract inward
investment to Lincolnshire and the eastern borders
of Nottinghamshire.
"It
has been a real challenge to develop a site that
can be really useful to people who own and occupy
property. The present stage of development allows
enquirers to search our database and automatically
order brochures on line. We see the internet as
helping us to provide a seven day a week, twenty
four hour a day information service to an
international audience," said senior partner,
Chris Hodgson.
Special
features of the web site include location maps for
most properties, zoomable photographs and useful
links to other sources of local and demographic
information.
"We
are now developing a database of other commercial
agents' properties throughout the UK and expect to
bring this on-line before the end of the year.
This will then give our clients and customers
access to a searchable database of approaching
40,000 properties," said Mr Hodgson.
Further
information from:-
Chris
Hodgson
Telephone: 01522 512232
Paul
Wilson (Wilson Leppard)
Telephone: 020 8549 7948
Fax: 070 5066 2612
Mobile: 07771 867320
Web: www.wilsonleppard.co.uk
or
Paul
Croft
Telephone: 01427 788319
