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IslasLujo/VillasLujo.com
For renting/sales of luxury homes in Spain, Europe and selected countries. We want to add a personal/responsible touch in finding your property and will therefore work with local people and are seeking exclusive representatives based on countries and/or regions. If you are interested and in the business of renting/selling homes in your region, please contact us.
hakan@hakanfalk.com
We are working on the site and it will expand on functionality, areas, languages and offerings. The vacation homes that you see on the site, are real and available for rent.
Our inital offerings are in the Spanish state of Catalonia and the province of Girona. It covers the unique beaches (Calas) of Costa Brava and the rural homes in and around the foothill and in the spectacular Catalan mountains.
We hope that you will enjoy our site and find it useful.
Current web sites and future development plans.
Villas Lujo, Spanish for Luxury Villas, is offering an owner direct rental program and also selling of properties. We market properties for owners or their representative (like real estate agents, urbanization administrators, or similar) to clients or their representative (like travel agents, or similar). Due to the diversity and amount of properties that we have, it is a need of dedicated web sites for different categories. We have already launched
http://SagaroVell.com/
for the famous urbanization S'Agaró Vell and the areas around it. We are also working with
http://RuralLujo.com/
which is an expansion of the site Rural.nu for rural locations. In the implementation stage is
http://PlayasLujo.com/
which will present properties with near beach locations. In the planning stage is
http://IslasLujo.com/
that will deal with islands like Baleares and Canarias, we also seek cooperation with representatives for travel agencies and real estate agents to add more locations. If you are interested please email
hakan@hakanfalk.com
VillasLujo.com have at the moment around 15,000 unique visitors and 40,000 property page views per month and we estimate that we facilitate rentals for around 1.5 million Euro per year, this is the total rental amount including comissions. For a site like ours, unique visitors and page views are the only numbers that fully describes the web activities. Last year 2006 we had 150,000 unique visitors with close to 450,000 page views and this year we expect to grow substantially more. Since it is a season dependent activity, the number of visitors go down from mid July and are the around 10,000 per month to December, after it picks up rapidly. Since we already have very good positions in the search engines, adding new sites, locations and properties, give very fast results. They will be fully represented within 1-2 months, compared with a new site, were it can take 8-9 months to get results.
The definitions on unique visitor is that somebody visited the web site and browsed pages, without making a pause of more than 30 minutes. If the visitor make a pause or disconnect and do not come back within 30 minutes, he will be registered as a new unique visitor when he connects again. Many web site owners claim page views or entry page views as visitors (like counters on entry page), to enhance their numbers and get on average more than 10 times higher.
Page views is a more correct value on the web activities, than hits, that many uses. Hits is every access to the server and a page like ours with many pictures, will give around 30 hits per page. Many web site owners are giving hits instead of page views, to enhance the numbers.
Security issues for owners and travel agents.
Due to recent events, we became aware of serious weaknesses and conflicts with publishing owners properties on the Internet. They are basically related to control of the copy rights of material and the whishes of owners. In the past we only had the copy right statement to protect the copying of the content of our web site, we relied on the legal protection of property owners and the web material. We had some owners who did not, for compelling reasons, want to have their properties published officially on the web any longer. The major search engines will take 1 months to discover that the link is not there anymore and remove the link, but we discovered that the properties still was published on some other web sites and showed up on both the site and the search engines. Legally it is a problem, because the sites were not under our control and we did not even know that they had copied and published our material.
We not only have a responsability to publish, rent or sell the properties. We also must do our best to effectivly stop the publishing on a property owners request. Therfore we have to do what is possible and technically feasible to prevent copying and third party publishing. The search engines are serious and not really a problem, since they many times are fast in discovering that a link do not work any longer and will remove it, often faster than it took to get them to publish it. It is the unauthorised copying and publishing that must be controlled. After investigation we found the following actions as reasonable and possible.
- Disable right click on the browsers, when they are looking on our web sites.
- Disable saving and cashing of certain material like pictures. It will slow down the loading of pages, but the average internet connection is today so fast, that it is a reasonable action.
- Not allowing "hotlink" access to pictures etc., which means that the visitor must get this material through a web page on the web site.
It is some more possible actions, like cookies etc., but they are not resonable at the moment, since they could be in conflict with the visitors own security settings and concerns.
The security measures do conflict with some marketing aspects from travel agents and others, who want the client to deal with them and surpress competition information. To allow them to show the listings with their propetery information or no contact information, we have created
http://CasasPrivadas.com/ (blank page)
On this site, who is not marketing Villas Lujo or any of our own client offering sites, the agent can use,
http://lists.casasprivadas.com/
to let clients look at objects. This list have no references to us or any agent. On request, we will create personlized list for an agent, with his/her logo and contact information. this is for agents who plan to frequently use our listings, not only for use a few times a month. The agent can point his own domain or sub domain to this list and integate it with his/her web site, sample is,
http://demo.casasprivadas.com
We will assist you, if you want a domain or point a subdomain.
Hakan Falk
VillasLujo.com
Email: hakan@hakanfalk.com
tel. (0034) 972 320589 or
mobil: (0034) 609 304735
Disclaimer
Any company or person who publish on Villas Lujo or affiliated web sites, must have a valid written agreement with Dalab BV and its representative Hakan Falk. Listings of properties are only secured if such an agreement exists. Dalab BV reserves the right to, on a temporary basis disply properties, during the time such agreements are negotiated and to remove properties if the negotiations are not completed. Dalab BV does not take any responsabilities for the agreements between representatives and owners, nor between clients and representatives/travel agencies or tax isusses with representatives or owners. It is the local representative who is responsible to meet local laws and regulations. Villas Lujo reserves the right to remove listings that do not meet quality standards and/or do not have a valid agreement. In case of doubts, complaints or abuses, please contact
hakan@hakanfalk.com
Outline of rental agreement