Background to Property Bookmarks

The idea for Property Bookmarks has been brewing in my thoughts for several years.

It originates from my own circumstances.
I want to move house, but unlike many people I am not considering any particular town, school catchment area or commute zone. I am looking for a special combination of property character and neighbourhood, and it could be almost anywhere across the south of England or Wales.

That wide search area quickly became a problem.
The standard price, location and number-of-bedrooms search model was not ideal because I was looking almost everywhere.

During 2024 and 2025 I found myself trawling through huge quantities of property alerts, saved searches, agent emails and listing updates. Attractive properties got lost amongst hundreds or thousands of messages.

In 2025 I built tools to read the emails that I was receiving and ways to organise my favourite properties – those features worked well and saved me a lot of time.

I started to wonder whether some other people might also find what I had built useful and on 4 May 2026 I showed several AI systems my prototype and asked them whether a public service called “Property Bookmarks” would be useful. The response was strongly encouraging, and they saw that the idea itself originated from a real practical problem that I had already personally experienced.

I researched the propertybookmarks.* domains and I was amazed to discover that they were all available, so I bought propertybookmarks.com and that inspired me to go further to build the whole website.

Since then I have been using ChatGPT and Claude as sounding boards while developing the wording, structure and design myself. I have found ChatGPT especially useful because it remembers the context of the project and can help refine ideas as they evolve – that has been enormously powerful..

Property Bookmarks is being developed independently by me at Ah Ha Software.
It’s not trying to replace property portals, estate agents or property websites.
It is intended to sit around them — giving users a private, reliable workspace for the property information they already receive.

The aim is simple: to make a property search easier to manage once the alerts start arriving.
The current site demonstrates how it works by showing messages and how they flow into property listings for one typical user – please try the functionality – it works for me, does it work for you?

In less than a month I have created what you see in Property Bookmarks – now it needs people to actually try it, to prove that it works, and find out whether it is useful for them, so register here and see….

If you have any questions, issues or suggestions please contact me.

Jon Castle
jon@propertybookmarks.net

Ah Ha Software