We're delighted to see one of latest projects going live and being made available to the public today.

After several months of hard work, ThePropertyScout.com went public today with a press release from site owner Ben Bloomfield.

In the release, Ben explains: "ThePropertyScout.com is essentially an online property search agent. You tell us about the kind of property you're after, we'll then go and find it for you. It's all done through the website and it's completely free to use."

Built in Drupal, the site enables potential buyers/tenants to register free with the site and to create searches for the sort of property they are looking for. Meanwhile, estate agents also register with the site and their available properties are automatically imported into the site and updated on a daily basis via an XML feed.

The system then runs regularly processes to compare property details to buyer's/tenant's search requirements to find suitable matches. However, where The Property Scout differs to other matching services is that the matches are initially sent to the agents, rather than directly to the buyer/tenant. The agent then has the opportunity to review the match from a human perspective to evaluate whether or not the match is indeed relevant to the buyer before then sending the details onto the buyer if suitable.

The whole service provides a low-cost, accurate and risk-free lead generation service to estate agents while buyers/tenants receive a free property finding service which they can be assured will be relevant and accurate due to the human intervention in checking matches before alerts are sent out.

Speaking about the project, Adaptive Operations Director, Steve Allen, said: "The Property Scout site has been an exciting and challenging project to develop. We've taken the core strengths and functionality of the Drupal platform and added to it via a collection of custom-built modules and functions.

"The project has seen our skills utilised across a number of areas, including user registration/interaction flows, feed aggregation, SQL crunching and e-commerce. We've also worked with Ben to look at the model for the site and suggest improvements/additions where we thought appropriate to ensure that the resulting site was as slick and usable as possible."

The Property Scout's Ben Bloomfield said of his experience of working with Adaptive on the project: “I presented Adaptive with a real challenge on this Project. The website is a new concept, a new model and generally a new approach to a property website.

"Dan, Steve and the team at Adaptive were extremely quick and responsive during the build of the site but more importantly have continually questioned the model, the processes and the functionality in order to make the site as commercially effective as possible. For me that extra level of thought has massively enhanced the project”.

Visit the site at www.thepropertyscout.com