Social Networking Brings Real Estate Industry to the Next Level
July 27, 2008
BuyerBeacon, The Official Real Estate Matchmaker, offers an interactive and user friendly tool for home buyers and sellers. The website is in response to an online real estate marketplace where it can cost hundreds of dollars to sell your home online. Owners Peter Fabbri III and Cory Ruell believe that “it’s time to make the home buying process smoother, quicker, easier and more affordable, and that is why we have developed buyerbeacon.com!” Development of the Buyer Beacon website started in August 2007 and nearly one year later, is being unveiled to the public.
Lake Orion, MI (PRWEB) July 27, 2008 — Buyer Beacon LLC (http://www.buyerbeacon.com), operating out of Lake Orion, Michigan, is a residential real estate website that leverages the matchmaking ability of a dating site. Buyerbeacon.com allows homebuyers and sellers of properties to network and communicate with each other through the website. Home buyers create a buyer profile and enter specified search criteria (including location, price range, etc. of their desired home) while home sellers create profiles detailing what makes their home perfect; Buyer Beacon collects the information to match users up via e-mail notification. Users are also free to search, browse, and communicate through the website to find their perfect match. Realtors may reap the benefits of the site by utilizing it as an instrument to aid in finding a perfect buyer for clients. Realtors can interact with the buyers by sending and receiving emails, they have the ability to list 15+ homes, add up to 15 pictures per property, and have access to a listing management tool inside of their profile. SAMSA Programmer, Josh Taylor, adds, “The Buyer Beacon site ventures into a new tier of social networking unlike any other because it focuses on property listings.”
The idea for this social networking website tailored for real estate buyers and sellers was created by owners Peter Fabbri III and Cory Ruell as a solution to the hassle of trying to find a home. One of the Co-founders of Buyer Beacon developed the initial plan for the website after driving around weekend after weekend looking for the perfect home with no success. Fabbri comments on the new site, “The concept of our website has not yet been seen in the Internet real estate industry. We offer a free, no obligation way to market and find buyers for your home that is very interactive and user friendly.” He goes on to say, “In an online real estate marketplace where it can cost hundreds of dollars to sell your home online, it’s time to make the home buying process smoother, quicker, easier and more affordable, and that is why we have developed buyerbeacon.com!” Fabbri and Ruell plan on marketing Buyer Beacon, “The Official Real Estate Matchmaker,” nationally, within the next year.
Development of the Buyer Beacon website started in August 2007 and nearly one year later, is being unveiled to the public. Buyerbeacon.com could not come at a better time as the U.S. real estate industry is suffering and sellers cannot find buyers for their homes. Buyerbeacon.com offers sellers the ability to take the initiative and for the first time ever use the Internet to find buyers. Fabbri commented, “The beauty of buyerbeacon.com is that home sellers and homebuyers both benefit from using the site. Sellers can pursue buyers anxious to buy a home. Buyers can find their perfect home without a lot of legwork. It’s a win-win for both buyers and sellers! Internet matchmaking at its finest and its free!” SAMSA (http://www.samsa.com) provided web development including database design and PHP programming. SAMSA used cutting edge scripting, (Spry technology) to make subtle effects throughout the website and used a PHP-programmed site backed with a mySQL database for the website’s data. They also provided graphic and web design and web host the Buyer Beacon site.
When it came to developing the website, Buyer Beacon owners explain, “We performed a lot of due diligence selecting our website vendor, as it was the heart and soul of our idea. SAMSA stuck out from the crowd through their professionalism, their dedication to their clients, and their reasonable prices.” Ruell adds, “Peter and I would 100% recommend SAMSA to any other business clients and acquaintances. SAMSA did a wonderful job with our site in a reasonable time frame.” In regards to working with the SAMSA team through the process of getting the website developed and ready to go live to the public, they state, “SAMSA has been a treat to work with; they handled everything we asked of them professionally and diligently. They took the vision we gave them for the site and created a final result that exceeded our expectations.”
Buyerbeacon.com User Benefits:
The Standard Profile for sellers is free and includes one home listing, ability to upload eight pictures, search homebuyer and seller profiles, add favorites, and receive new homebuyer e-mail alerts.
The Premium Profile for sellers is $10.95/month after a one-month free trial and in addition to the standard profile perks includes, 15 additional free listings, the ability to send and read emails, upload 15 pictures per listing, add and manage additional listings, and it provides premium display within search results for each listing.
The Premium Profile for buyers is free and includes the ability to send and read e-mails, upload a profile picture, search seller listings, add favorites, and receive new seller e-mail alerts.
AltosXplorer: The First Real-Time Real Estate Data Web Application
July 22, 2008
Award-winning technology brings the most current real estate data to everyone’s fingertips. Just a few clicks for incredibly detailed local or national real estate market analysis.
Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) July 22, 2008 — Altos Research, the premier resource for real-time real estate data, today announced AltosXplorer, the first rich internet application to let anyone analyze today’s current real estate market conditions.
AltosXplorer is the newest product from the company that won the Inman News “Most Innovative Technology” award in 2007 for its real-time real estate data products. AltosXplorer is available today at the Altos Research real estate data page.
Traditional real estate information is weeks or months old before it becomes available for even the most connected real estate professionals. Analyzing, charting, and communicating that data is an arduous task of database queries, spreadsheets, and email.
“Thousands of real estate professionals, investors, traders, and consumers leverage our unique real-time market information for insights every day,” said Michael Simonsen, co-founder and CEO of Altos Research. “We’ve learned that our clients love our detailed market reports, but many have their own unique analytical needs. We built AltosXplorer to empower a whole new class of class of real estate problem solving.”
AltosXplorer is the first rich internet application that enables users to:
1. Instantly query the vast Altos Research real estate database: Altos publishes hundreds of useful statistics covering nearly 10,000 zip codes around the country every week. AltosXplorer opens the massive 2 terabyte (2TB) Altos Research database to live queries.
2. Automatically chart local market trends: Just a few clicks to grab local market trend charts for your blog, emails, or unique individual analysis.
3. Quickly analyze today’s conditions: Sift through mountains of statistics to compare local market opportunities, identify previously hidden trends, and make decisions.
4. Export the data: Easily save graphical charts and export historical data directly to your PC.
Need to compare investment opportunities in Tampa vs. Orlando? Or condo inventory trends in two Chicago neighborhoods? AltosXplorer can tell you in just a few clicks. In addition, AltosXplorer makes it simple to include the data and trend charts in your work– whether preparing a detailed investment analysis, or blogging for your clients– the answers are only a few clicks away.
“AltosXplorer is insanely cool,” said Kris Berg, Broker Associate with Prudential California Realty “Real-time market data into my blog posts and to my clients - click, click, copy, paste. I love it when I can give my clients more and make my life easier.” Kris blogs at San Diego Home Blog.
AltosXplorer also makes available, for the first time, 16 market measures not available anywhere else. The Advanced statistics track, for example, the average percentage price changes of homes on the market and year over year changes in inventory and demand levels.
Pricing and Availability
AltosXplorer offers basic access for free to anyone. Current Altos Research Professional and Premium subscribers get professional-level access to AltosXplorer at no additional cost. For investors, appraisers, and institutions, pricing depends on market coverage and statistical depth and starts at $99/month. For full subscription details see Altos Research or call 888.819.7775
About Altos Research:
Altos Research LLC is the Internet’s premier source for real-time real estate data. The company’s market analysis products give people better information about current property prices and market dynamics than ever previously available. Our customers include real estate professionals, individual home buyers and sellers, corporations and financial institutions. The privately held company, based in Silicon Valley, was founded in 2005. For more information visit Altos Research: Real-Time Real Estate Data
Foreclosure.com to Enhance Existing Foreclosure Listings on LiveDeal.com
July 22, 2008
America’s top provider of foreclosure data to provide leading local online marketplace with access to more than 1.8 million nationwide distressed real estate listings. Foreclosures are hot and getting hotter
Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) July 22, 2008 — Foreclosure.com today announced that it has struck a data deal with LiveDeal.com, providing the online classified leader and its site visitors with access to millions of nationwide real estate and foreclosure listings.
Visitors can access the listings online at www.LiveDeal.com/realestate.
As part of the partnership, LiveDeal.com will integrate Foreclosure.com listing into its existing database, providing future homebuyers with seamless access to the most comprehensive database of foreclosure listings in the nation through an innovative co-brand site creation.
In particular, site visitors can now search an additional 1.8 million real estate listings without ever leaving LiveDeal.com.
“Our focus is to provide our visitors with the best local products and services on a nationwide scale,” said Mike Edelhart, CEO of LiveDeal. “Foreclosure.com is a natural partner to help us achieve this objective within our real estate channel. Through this new partnership, LiveDeal is adding valuable local foreclosure content to the site and enabling its new partner to reach its target consumers in every neighborhood in the country.”
The data from Foreclosure.com includes property information and in-depth details such as exclusive tax roll information, property photos, as well as seller/listing contact information.
“Foreclosures are hot and getting hotter,” said Foreclosure.com Founder, President and CEO, Brad Geisen. “There are tremendous investment opportunities for homebuyers and investors to choose from right now. This partnership ensures that we will be able to pass these great deals along to millions of people so that they can save (or make) the money.”
To view the site or to search more than 1.8 million real estate listings right now visit www.LiveDeal.com/realestate.
About Foreclosure.com
With more than 1.8 million foreclosure, preforeclosure, bankruptcy, FSBO and tax lien listings in one place, Foreclosure.com delivers America’s largest and most accurate searchable database of foreclosed homes and investment property information to its customers and business partners. Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Foreclosure.com works with hundreds of top lending institutions and government agencies to list diverse property types on its Web site, including Real Estate Owned (REO); Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); Fannie Mae; and other government agency and financial institution properties; as well as listings from an extensive network of corporate sellers. On the Web: www.foreclosure.com.
About LiveDeal Inc.
LiveDeal, Inc. is a leader in the local online classifieds and yellow pages marketplace with millions of goods and services listed for sale in every city and zip code across the U.S. Through its online properties LiveDeal.com and YP.com, LiveDeal offers businesses and consumers a simple and affordable way of creating a web presence and marketing their products and services to local audiences. Buyers and sellers come together through LiveDeal’s vast local marketplaces to find and list business services, merchandise, real estate, automobiles and pets. LiveDeal, Inc. is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information please visit www.LiveDeal.com.
Media Contact:
Thomas Myers
Foreclosure.com
tmyers @ foreclosure.com
Tel: (561) 981-5337 ext. 381
Bid4Assets Announces its New Real Estate-Only Auction Web Site and Real Estate Disposition Program
July 21, 2008
Bid4Assets introduces Bid4Homes, an online real estate auction site that brings the expertise of listing agents together with its online auction experience to accelerate the sale of REO property.
Silver Spring, MD (PRWEB) July 21, 2008 — Bid4Assets (www.bid4assets.com), the nation’s online auction expert in selling distressed assets since 1999, today announced its new real estate-only auction Web site, Bid4Homes(sm) (www.bid4homes.com), and its unique partnership with listing agents. Bid4Homes, which specializes in selling distressed real estate from banks, government agencies and private parties, is introducing a powerful new tool to accelerate the sale of REO properties, called the 3in1 Listing Program(sm). The 3in1 Listing Program is intended to maximize revenue and minimize holding time compared to traditional methods. Bid4Homes’ unique 3in1 Listing Program combines the power of online auctions and the local expertise of real estate agents to triple the chances the property will sell. Bid4Homes will pay listing agents a commission on a successful sale.
This first phase in Bid4Homes’ unique 3in1 Listing Program starts with an online auction, which usually takes less than 30 days. It is anticipated that improved residential and commercial properties and unimproved land will be auctioned on Bid4Homes. Properties will be in an online ‘preview period’ to give bidders time to conduct due diligence prior to the bidding period. During the preview period, Bid4Homes targets its best prospects from its subscriber group and uses the power of the Internet to instantaneously expose the properties to an exponentially greater number of buyers than on-the-ground auctions. More bidders drive higher prices. Bid4Assets, its new real estate-only Web site, Bid4Homes, and its partner RealtyTrac®, will expose properties to more than three million potential buyers, and that is just the first step in this unique selling process.
If the property doesn’t sell through the initial online auction, Bid4Homes will support the efforts of the asset manager’s real estate agent to sell it through traditional means–this is second phase in the Program. The properties will be listed on all three Web sites as a ‘make an offer’ sale. Bid4Homes will forward all inquiries and offers to the listing agent for the property. When listing a property with Bid4Homes, sellers pay nothing until a property is sold. The cost of selling property on the Web site is equivalent to using a real estate agent and considerably less than an on-the-ground auctioneer. “There is absolutely no risk to try this Program. Sellers only pay if the property sells, so why wouldn’t banks give it a try?” said Lisa Lauroesch, vice president of business development and REO sales for Bid4Homes. Unlike some other online services, when a property is sold through Bid4Homes, the listing agent can earn a commission, regardless of what phase the property sells in. “Bid4Homes integrates online auctions with listing agents to provide end-to-end asset disposition services for banks and real estate sellers,” said Lisa Lauroesch.
If the property doesn’t sell in phases one or two of the Program, the third phase is to re-auction the property online. At this time, the asset manager will have a better understanding of what the market will bear and can take what he/she has learned about pricing and, together with Bid4Homes, develop a highly customized approach to getting the property sold. Bid4Homes also simplifies the transfer of property by providing a web-based service that brings together all of the information necessary for a smooth closing.
Bid4Assets and Bid4Homes have sold over 53,000 properties in 50 states since 1999. Since January 2008, 21 percent of listings in its auctions sold within 30 days, and 58 percent brought more than the asking price. “It only makes sense to capitalize on the efficiencies of the Internet particularly in a slow market. Online auctions have unlimited reach. Since the market became soft, almost 60 percent of all properties we’ve sold at Bid4Homes have been sold to out-of-state buyers. Greater reach means more bidders and more bidders mean more properties move quicker at higher prices,” said Lisa Lauroesch. And she should know. Lauroesch has seen the real estate market in all types of conditions with her past experience at Freddie Mac, most recently as Senior Director of Offerings Development.
Lauroesch continued, “With a traditional agent, buyers hold the power to try to bid the price down, but since online auction bids are viewable, they encourage competitive bidding therefore driving prices up. That’s ideal for the seller in any market.”
In addition to bank-owned properties and properties from private sellers, Bid4Homes helps many federal, state and local government agencies dispose of forfeited, seized, surplus and tax-foreclosed properties. Some of its clients include the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Department of Defense and more than 50 counties nationwide.
“We’re excited to team up with Bid4Homes and its sister site Bid4Assets, which have experienced enormous success in the online real estate auction space, with more than 50,000 property sales in 50 states,” said Rick Sharga, vice president of marketing for RealtyTrac. “There is tremendous value in this Program for the asset manager. The online technology pioneered by Bid4Homes wedded with the wide exposure available through RealtyTrac provides one of the best options for disposing of distressed properties.”
As a leading online real estate auction expert in the REO industry, Lisa Lauroesch of Bid4Homes, alongside Rick Sharga of RealtyTrac, will be appearing on a panel at the upcoming 2008 Five-Star Default Servicing Conference and Expo in Dallas as an industry expert discussing how technology will significantly impact the future of real estate.
About Bid4Homes
Bid4Homes (http://www.bid4homes.com) is the real estate-only Web site from Bid4Assets, Inc., the nation’s online auction expert in selling distressed assets since 1999 for government agencies, financial institutions, private sellers, bankruptcy attorneys, trustees, for sale by owners, real estate agents, brokerage firms and non-profits. Bid4Assets has had a legally binding real estate auction platform since 1999 and has more experience with online real estate auctions than any other online auction service in the country. More than 53,000 REO, forfeited, tax-foreclosed, and distressed properties have been sold through these sites including homes, unimproved land, commercial, residential and agricultural property.
Founded in 1999, Bid4Assets (http://www.bid4assets.com) developed one of the first sales platforms for government-controlled property on the Internet and formed its premier relationship with the U.S. Marshals Service. Bid4Assets has conducted sales of seized, surplus and non-strategic assets for more than 80 federal, state and local government agencies nationwide. Clients include the U.S. Marshals Service, the Department of Energy, U.S. Department of the Treasury, and many of the states and counties throughout the United States. The company is located in Silver Spring, Md., phone (301) 650-9193, fax (301) 650-9194.
First Global Real Estate Business Social Networking Site: GPDLink.com
July 20, 2008
BEVERLY HILLS — Global Property Database (GPD), An IRETO Company, launched GPDLink.com (http://www.gpdlink.com/), an online deal-making and capital-raising business social network for the real estate industry. This new online platform will allow developers, owners and investors from around the globe a place to network and do business.
Unlike LinkedIn and other business social networks, GPDLink will be 100% focused on real estate. Membership to GPDLink is a free service. Members can also use the online deal-making exchange and connection systems of GPDDeal.com (http://www.gpddeal.com/), the sister site to GPDLink.com (http://www.gpdlink.com/).
In today’s market, owners and developers are forced to look outside the normal channels to find capital for projects and buyers for their properties. “Some of the largest real estate brokerage companies in the US have used our GPDDeal platform to market their properties to the Global Marketplace with huge success. Now we are offering this same opportunity to the world,” said Kamia Taylor, Director of Marketing at IRETO.
Because of its real estate focus, the site provides a open environment where people can network with others in the same business, while listing and/or searching resources for jobs and freelance labor, news and industry research.
“The goal is to bring all the professionals around the globe together. In addition to deal-making and capital-raising services, we will have a strong labor-finding and company / services database. Washington has been slow to act on US real estate problems — putting tons of skilled labor into the market. So, we are adding tools that will permit firms to find and hire that labor on either a temporary or permanent basis,” said Bryan Shaffer, IRETO Chairman.
“Over the last 5 years I have traveled to almost every real estate market around the globe and developed extended relationships there. With GPDLink, professionals can develop the same relationships without leaving their office computers,” Shaffer added.
For further information, contact:
Kamia Taylor
310.285.1770 or kamia.taylor@ireto.com
IRETO — The International Real Estate Trade Organization (http://www.ireto.org/) — is the world’s largest Global Real Estate Deal-Making and Capital-Raising network. IRETO Global Property and Capital Platform allows for Buyers, Sellers and Capital Providers to conduct business using the latest in technology and all of our information resources. IRETO has over 112,000 Members in 72 Nations around the Globe. The IRETO Platform is comprised of GPDLink, our new real estate business social network, GPD Deal, Online Deal-making and capital-raising exchange, GRE Deal, Live Deal making Events and on-line radio broadcast and podcasting Global Real Estate Radio Platform.
Land Unlimited, Inc. Launches New User Friendly Website
July 19, 2008
New Tools Available to Users for Searching Land Inventory Across all 50 States.
Breckenridge, CO (PRWEB) July 18, 2008 — One of the leading listing services of land for sale in the United States has just launched a brand new website offering with new tools for land brokers, and an expanded inventory of both raw and developed land.
Users to the site will find categories searchable by state, region, as well as land type. Land classifications range from ranches and farms to commercial acreage and hunting land. Enhanced property listings include photographs, highly detailed information and statistics, as well as relevant property documents available to download.
Land Unlimited, Inc. was created as a central marketplace for certified land brokers to efficiently list their land as well as to provide the general public a resource for all their real estate land needs. Land Unlimited, Inc. has designed the most comprehensive, user friendly interface for setting up land listings and for uploading related photographs and information.
In correlation with the original goal of providing the necessary advertising and marketing tools to local and national land brokers, now brokers will have access to pertinent information such as days on market, the selling price on sold properties, access to information on co-brokering deals and commission splits, nationwide buyer alerts and news updates on issues pertinent to farm and ranch real estate. Finding information on United States ranches and farms for sale has never been easier.
In addition to access to important information updates, the new website also facilitates managing and marketing efforts through the use of white label services including newsletters, property postcards, and property brochures. The features make it easier than ever to effectively manage listings of all land types and sales including ranches for sale in all 50 states. The newly redesigned website has been developed to also manage multiple agents listings from one central broker account, allowing a lead broker to manage any land listing entered by a remote agent even hundreds of miles away.
John Hayter, founder of Land Unlimited says that the new Land Unlimited website “will help brokers give their clients a higher degree of service. The time has come to have one central place for all farm and ranch/land brokers to put their listings.” Land Unlimited, Inc. was formed by Mr. Hayter, a ranch real estate professional and 6th generation Texas rancher with the mission to provide necessary marketing and advertising tools to land brokers, both locally and nationally, as well as provide the public a resource for all their land real estate needs.
Contact:
John Hayter, Founder
Land Unlimited, Inc.
970-389-3010
http://www.landbrokermls.com
ForSaleByOwner.com Partners with Cribfinder to Place All Property Listings on Facebook® Platform
July 16, 2008
Real Estate Leader Will Help Market Customers’ Listings to 60 Million Facebook Users
NEW YORK (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) July 16, 2008 — ForSaleByOwner.com (http://www.forsalebyowner.com), the nation’s leading “for sale by owner” website, today announced that its listings will be included in the Cribfinder application on the Facebook Platform. With more than 60 million active users, Facebook is the sixth-most trafficked website in the United States. Cribfinder provides ForSaleByOwner.com customers with a free, innovative approach to marketing their home on Facebook.
“More than 84% of all real estate buyers go online to find their next home and marketing all of our customers’ properties on this top 10 website furthers our commitment to help people sell their home without paying commission,” said Greg Healy, Vice President of Operations for ForSaleByOwner.com.
Beginning today, all ForSaleByOwner.com customers will have their property listings automatically posted to Cribfinder at no additional cost. Cribfinder offers a conventional real estate search functionality and, consistent with Facebook’s social utility, allows Facebook users to see who within their network has a property for sale. Historically, many homebuyers purchase homes found through friends and family members. The Cribfinder partnership enables ForSaleByOwner.com customers to leverage this important aspect of selling a home within Facebook’s community.
“Online networking is another innovative marketing approach we’re using to help people build independence from commissioned real estate agents. We’re pleased to partner with Cribfinder for the benefit of the growing amount of ‘for sale by owner’ consumers,” said Healy.
Cribfinder is owned by Jenius Industries Inc., an internet company specializing in Facebook applications. Adam Oppenheimer, President of Jenius Industries Inc., said, “Cribfinder utilizes the social graph for real estate, maximizing property visibility by syndicating listings throughout Facebook. We are excited to add ForSaleByOwner’s rich portfolio and popular branding to our service.”
Today’s news continues ForSaleByOwner.com’s strategy to syndicate all of its property listings to popular Web sites. The company’s listings appear on many of the Internet’s leading sites including GoogleBase.com, Yahoo.com, USAToday.com, AOL.com, Oodle.com, Lycos.com, Military.com, Roost.com and Vast.com.
About ForSaleByOwner.com
ForSaleByOwner.com is the nation’s leading for sale by owner website. Since 1999, ForSaleByOwner.com has saved home sellers more than one billion dollars by providing premium Internet marketing services, property pricing reports, real estate guidance and information, downloadable legal forms, as well as live customer support, to help customers independently sell their own homes. The company charges a modest fee for its wide range of advertising and real estate resources, priced from $89 to $899. In contrast, a person selling a $300,000 home through a real estate agent would be charged a 6% commission fee and pay approximately $18,000. Prospective homebuyers can browse property database, available at http://www.forsalebyowner.com, at no charge.
Facebook® is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc.
Real Estate Marketing Company Yourkasa Features Technological Advances for Home Buyers and Sellers
July 16, 2008
Website Makes It Easy to Reach Home Sellers via Text Message, Create Portfolios, and More.
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 15, 2008 — For those seeking to expand their online real estate marketing activities, the number of options can seem overwhelming. Yourkasa.com, a website devoted to both home sellers and buyers, offers not only basic listings of houses for sale but also an array of advances in real estate technology that can speed the sales process.
In a real estate market such as today’s, time is of the essence. Home sellers utilizing Yourkasa.com can elect to allow buyers to not only contact them via email, but also to send text messages expressing interest in a property. This real estate technology benefits home sellers and buyers alike, as it gives both parties immediate access to an inquiry, whether the seller is at home or on the road, and expands the seller’s real estate marketing activities with ease.
Additionally, Yourkasa.com gives buyers the ability to establish an online portfolio of homes in which they are interested. Buyers can create this list, save it on the site, and return to it by logging in to their account. Buyers can also select multiple properties to contact at once, sending either email messages or text messages or both.
Yourkasa.com also offers an array of real estate marketing tools for home sellers, from engaging flyers that can be printed directly from the site to expanded listings that include images, maps, and links to outside websites.
“Yourkasa.com was developed as a one-stop resource to help home sellers and to make it easy for buyers to find properties,” said Neil Terc, president of Yourkasa.com. “We go above and beyond what many basic listing websites provide by offering our visitors a wide range of extra real estate marketing services that make home sales go more smoothly and more quickly.”
For a limited time, Yourkasa.com is offering its unlimited real estate marketing package at the low price of just $9.99. Sellers can access this deal by using the promotional code SELL on checkout. Yourkasa.com is always free for buyers to use to search listings, contact sellers, and talk to real estate agents.
About Yourkasa.com
Yourkasa.com is a feature-rich online real estate property listing service that connects home sellers with home buyers. Packed with resources and easily navigable, the site provides sellers with the ability to market their homes to a large, targeted audience and enables potential buyers to view thousands of real estate property listings online via detailed profiles, pictures and maps. For more information, visit www.yourkasa.com.
Metro Brokers First To Roll Out with iPhone Real Estate Search
July 10, 2008
Colorado based Metro Brokers Real Estate, Inc. announces another leading edge consumer real estate search application with Terabitz’s Powerful iPhone Search Application for Home Buyers; Completely Integrated iPhone Application Enables iPhone Users to Access Property Listings, Photos, Neighborhood Information, Driving Directions and More
Denver, CO. (Vocus/PRWEB ) July 10, 2008 — Apple is likely to sell 45 million iPhones by 2009, according to analysts from research firm Piper Jaffray. Metro Brokers Real Estate today announced that it would be the first real estate brokerage of any large brand in the country to use the iPhone home search application created by Terabitz. This application enables consumers to access property listings, photos, local neighborhood information, recent sales and mapped driving directions anywhere and anyplace. The application is available for all of Colorado, with well over 80,000 Colorado homes and land listings to search. Metro Brokers is seeking additional MLS markets in Colorado, which will be added in the future providing the single largest iPhone search application of any company in Colorado.
As of today, iPhone users can type http://www.mobileMBI.com into the iPhone browser and receive instant information on the homes they are interested in. Users can search by specific address, city, state, zip, MLS number, price, property, type of home, and number of bedrooms and bathrooms. Results can be either mapped or viewed as a list. Homes can be selected and then view the complete property listing homepage, which includes information about the home, its features, photos and surrounding neighborhood information. Further clicks and consumers can also contact the agent, email the listing to a friend, and access information about local schools, restaurants and even recent comparable sales.
“Metro Brokers has set its sites on being the number one real estate technology company and the iPhone search application that Terabitz has developed will definitely set Metro Brokers apart from all the players,” said Mike Bradley, Technology Chair for Metro Brokers Real Estate. “The ability to search MLS property listings and neighborhood information is a powerful tool for creating leads for Metro Broker agents and better service for the online home buyers that use an iPhone.”
The iPhone application has access to nearly every Colorado property on the market at any given time. Because Metro Brokers can now offer this innovative search feature, it is not only able to differentiate itself from other local brokers, but also from the large national home search sites that offer no local MLS databases.
“Our iPhone application takes mobile real estate search mainstream and on the street,” said Ashfaq Munshi, CEO of Terabitz. “We know that the new property search battle will be on handheld devices. The user experience is fantastic and the amount of information we’ve integrated will empower consumers to conveniently shop for homes and local information with the browsing ease of the iPhone.”
iPhone, Terabitz and Metro Brokers provides all the information
The Terabitz iPhone application that Metro Brokers is able to provide to consumers is designed to provide every byte of information a buyer or agent would want to know about a home, its features, and the surrounding neighborhood. Such house details as heating and air conditioning to appliances, amenities, landscaping, and architecture. Furthermore when an iPhone user finds a home they are interested in, they can search the neighborhood, locate restaurants and schools and even check on the school’s academic rating.
In addition, the application utilizes rich and accurate digital map data and content from Tele Atlas to help consumers seek places and points of interest (such as restaurants and schools) and then map that data to see where those establishments are located in relation to a specific property.
About Metro Brokers Real Estate
Metro Brokers Real Estate, Inc. is an association of independent real estate brokers who specialize in Colorado residential, commercial and investment properties. Metro Broker’s 90 office location network of 2,000 highly experienced real estate professionals have been helping buyers and sellers make the most of their real estate transactions since 1976, designating 32 years of caring, experienced professionals. Unlike most other real estate companies, Metro Brokers, Inc. is actually owned and controlled by its brokers. For more information please visit http://www.MetroBrokersTV.com.
About Terabitz
Terabitz is a venture-backed technology company located in the heart of Silicon Valley that was formed to help local brokers compete against the large national sites. The company’s mission is to ensure that brokers have all the tools, content and features to position themselves as the premiere real estate destination in their respective markets. For more information, please visit www.terabitz.com.
Foreclosure.com Partners With Z57 On Foreclosure Listings
July 5, 2008
America’s top provider of distressed real estate listings to enhance marketing opportunities and Web site content for more than 15,000 Z57 agents
Boca Raton, Fla. — May 22, 2008 — Foreclosure.com and Z57 Internet Solutions — an award-winning real estate Internet marketing company that specializes in website design for real estate professionals — have teamed up to automatically display valuable foreclosure content on more than 15,000 Z57 real estate agent Web sites.
In addition, Z57 agents will benefit from free leads from the motivated buyers who visit their sites, ensuring that qualified traffic is captured and available for future marketing initiatives.
To get started today, real estate agents and brokers are encouraged to visit www.z57.com/foreclosure.
“Z57 and its agents are known for standing out in the crowd,” said Foreclosure.com Director of Partner Relations, Zack Preble. “Adding the best foreclosure listings to their sites, as well as securing important buyer leads, will help them shine that much brighter.”
With more than 200 themes and customizable content, Z57 turns real estate websites into valuable community resources. And with more than 15,000 custom nationwide real estate agent Web sites, the company has emerged as the leader in online real estate marketing.
According to Z57 Chief Operating Officer, Ryan Whitlock, the company’s success is driven by a dedication to providing added value to its clients such as the recent partnership with Foreclosure.com is what drives the company’s success.
“We are very happy to be partnering with the foremost provider of foreclosure data on the Web,” said Whitlock. “The real estate market is changing and more and more buyers are looking to purchase distressed real estate than ever before. Our agents will benefit tremendously thanks to this partnership with Foreclosure.com, receiving high quality content and valuable free leads day after day.”
To learn more about Z57 real estate Web design and marketing services, as well as enhancing a Web site with more than 1.2 million nationwide distressed real estate listings, please visit www.z57.com/foreclosure right now.
About Foreclosure.com
With more than 1.2 million foreclosure, preforeclosure, bankruptcy, FSBO and tax lien listings in one place, Foreclosure.com delivers America’s largest and most accurate searchable database of foreclosed homes and investment property information to its customers and business partners. Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Foreclosure.com works with hundreds of top lending institutions and government agencies to list diverse property types on its Web site, including Real Estate Owned (REO); Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); Fannie Mae; and other government agency and financial institution properties; as well as listings from an extensive network of corporate sellers. On the Web: www.foreclosure.com.
About Z57 Internet Solutions
Z57, Inc. www.z57.com is a real estate Web marketing company based in San Diego, Calif. Founded in 1998, the company specializes in professionally designed websites, lead capture/conversion and buyer/seller traffic generation through effective online marketing plans, listing syndication, Search Engine Optimization, drip e-mail marketing and a highly trained customer service team. Recognized as an Inc. 5,000 company and one of San Diego’s Top 100 fastest-growing companies, Z57 provides thousands of clients nationwide with proven real estate solutions matched with personal service. For information call (800) 899-8148 or visit www.z57.com.
