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Welcome to our Autumn Newsletter!
House Hunting the Smart Way!
More and more people are using their mobile phones to search for information on products and services on the internet.
Estate agents have acknowledged this new life changing technology and have developed their own Smart Phone Applications which allow customers to use their mobiles to search for properties.
 Local estate agents John Francis (who have over 20 offices covering the West Wales area) have followed other Welsh agents and launched their own app in order to allow potential homebuyers to search through their own portfolio.
The apps allow customers to search for properties by area, price range and number of bedrooms - there is also a 'near me' feature which shows homes within a certain radius of your location - other features include a map and a mortgage calculator which is a quick and easy way to work out monthly mortgage payments and find out how much you can afford before you borrow. 
Another property app with more than 1.2 million properties for sale or rent within the UK is Rightmove which has a property listing for over 9500 estate agents in the UK. Right move is the market leader in mobile phone property apps - it is the only property app that allows you to view the property and the map at the same time and also offers zoomable floor plans.
Other property apps include:
1. Zoopla which provides information on prices for available homes in the area you are searching, access to a database of 15 million house prices going back to 1995 and value estimates for 27 million UK homes.
2. Mouseprice this is the only property app that does not come free of charge (£2.99 for the I phone and Ipod Touch) - it allows you to check the value of any property in Wales and England.
3. Find a Property this app allows you to perform a 'here and now' search using the camera view to see properties for sale or rent in your current location - once a property of interest has been selected, you will be able to obtain details of the estate agent marketing the property.
Despite all this new technology, people will still want to deal face to face with an estate agent or over the telephone - selling a property is a major transaction and one of the most expensive purchases someone is likely to make in their lifetime.
Award for Best Promotional Film
Mid Wales Storage has just won the annual storage.co.uk award for Promotional Films. These awards are designed to celebrate and promote good practice in the self storage industry. Self storage is becoming a major industry in the UK with over 1200 storage facilities.
Angus Heaton, Head of storage.co.uk stated - 'These awards should inform customers which storage facilities are really going that extra mile to provide the best service'.
We were extremely delighted to receive this award and our certificate is prominently displayed in the office!
Gwyl Y Golau Machynlleth Lantern Festival
The annual lantern procession will take place through the main street of Machynlleth on Saturday 29th October.
The 2 themes for this year's event will be 'Celebrating Winter' and 'Noson Galan Gaeaf'.
The procession will include small scale themed lanterns as well as spectacular large scale lanterns made by local communities, organisations and businesses - all these groups are eager to win the 'Best Big Lantern'.
The lantern procession will start at 6pm with a fireworks finale event at the Plas at 7.30pm.
Canolfan Owain Glyndwr Centre
A visitor centre in Machynlleth which is thought to stand on the site of Owain Glyndwr's old parliament, has reopened after a £350,000 refurbishment with funding coming from the historic monuments agency CADW.
The Owain Glyndwr Centre was opened by Alun Davies, AM for Mid & West Wales.
The centre tells the story of the Welsh uprising from 1400 and includes a video telling the story of Glyndwr's Parliament of 1404 - there are period costumes and banners and a replica sword relating to the period with an interactive map displaying the key locations linked to Glyndwr.
The Owain Glyndwr Centre was given to the town of Machynlleth by Lord Davies of Llandinam in 1912 - he converted the Old Parliament Building into a Library and Reading Room fro the benefit of the townspeople.
In 1981, after Powys County Council built a new library in Machynlleth, the Old Parliament Building was converted into a centre depicting the history of Owain Glyndwr.
For further information and visitor opening hours, please visit
http://www.canolfanglyndwr.org/
or telephone 01654 702932
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