JHI Real Estate has established a property portal to cover commercial, industrial and retail property sectors.
JHI Online is a joint venture between JHI, Wand Africa and Amorphous New Media.
"Ultimately the site is designed to complement the real world brick-and-mortar business of property through click-and-mortar, and to continually identify innovative online solutions for the property community," comments Charles Talbot, CEO of JHI Online and Wand Africa.
The site offers search facilities by property type, location, size and cost. It also offers a periphery database which includes building services and suppliers, design services, contractors and developers, office services and tenant installation, financial services, banking and emergency services.
It also offers visitors the opportunity to e-mail and redeem shopping centre vouchers and coupons through another strategic partnership with Tutuka, a provider of online vouchers.
"This service is a typical example of how the site aims to complement JHI`s real-world services," says Colin Wright, JHI Real Estate MD.
He explains that while the vouchers may be sent to recipients as gifts online, they are only redeemable in stores.
"As opposed to keeping the transaction online, the coupons drive traffic into the shopping centres, providing landlords and tenants with an additional service."
Johnnic news portal I-Net Bridge will provide property news content for the site.

