May 22, 2008 -- For the first time ever, LIVE up to the minute statistics about worldwide property searches are available in the public domain.

Propertyshowrooms.com have taken the property investment industry by storm, with its new Live Property Search Index. It's a tool available on the company's investment website, which enables the user to find up to the minute search trends, from a database of more than one million search requests.

Every time a client searches for investment property in places like Dubai, Morocco, Brazil, and Panama for example, the country they've searched for is logged into our database. It can then be used to show the most popular locations, including countries, regions, towns, types of property, and price range.

"For media professionals and investors alike, this is the most powerful search tool available anywhere on the web today. It really is a tremendous source of information," says Managing Partner of Propertyshowrooms.com Steve Binge.

He continues: "You can even search for data over different time scales, for example the last day or the last week and so on. As a property buyer, you can see where in the world other people are searching, thereby revealing popular trends and maybe even sniffing out property hotspots you never knew existed!"

Those property hotspots include areas of Panama, Brazil, Dubai, and Italy, which members of the International Property Investment Network (IPIN) then receive regular information about. It's a free members' service affiliated to Propertyshowrooms.com.

IPIN members have also been receiving exclusive information about select regions of the UK, which are very much on the up, despite the current credit crunch which has been highlighted so prominently in the media.

"There are still some areas of the UK which are clearly of substantial interest to investors, including Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow," explains Steve Binge. "And within those areas, we have some fantastic developments which are already creating quite a stir in terms of investor demand."

And the Live Property Search Index can help to highlight areas of investor demand worldwide. It's also extremely useful for those with a website or blog about real estate, adding more authority to sites by allowing webmasters and site owners to display real time graphs and data.

An example of this in action is at Globaledge.co.uk, an independent web-based trade publication for the overseas property industry. The company, which offers the world's largest free online directory of property businesses, is already using the Live Property Search Index. It's a signal of how seriously the industry regards the new launch.

It should be noted that clients' personal information collected by the Live Property Search Index is never released. Only specific search trends according to key words used are collated for the Index. This maintains client confidentiality, while still providing the user with current, reliable, and extremely useful information.