You know you can search for homes, cars and jobs on our websites, by email, by RSS and even using our Firefox plugin. Now you can also use your Instant Messenger, in order to receive alerts on your Google Talk or MSN client.

It’s really easy to use, you just have to add the following users to your friends list and type HELP to know the list of commands the bot is able to understand.

The usernames for Google Talk are:

homes.trovit.co.uk@gmail.com - for homes
cars.trovit.co.uk@gmail.com - for cars
jobs.trovit.co.uk@gmail.com - for jobs

The usernames for MSN are:

homes.trovit.co.uk@hotmail.com - for homes
cars.trovit.co.uk@hotmail.com - for cars
jobs.trovit.co.uk@hotmail.com - for jobs

You can perform searches directly using your Google Talk or MSN client, and create or delete custom alerts. Soon, it will run also with Yahoo! Messenger, Skype and ICQ. We hope you like it.

As you have probably seen, a few days ago we added filters to our searches of homes and cars.

When you search for a home, you can filter your results by publication date, price, floor area, number of rooms and bathrooms and property type. When you set a filter, it will show up in the upper part of the left column, surrounded by a blue border; in the example, we have set filters for price and number of rooms. If you want to remove that filter, just click on the “X” next to it or use “Undo all” to remove all the filters.

In Trovit Cars you can filter your searches by publication date, price, mileage, fuel, year, transmission type of number of doors.

One word of advice regarding filters: as you know, not all of the ads include all the information: for instance, some sources do not have the floor area for homes. As a result, when you filter for a given range of floor area, ads that do not have that information will not show up in the search.

We hope you all like this new improvement and that it allows you to find the ads you’re looking for.