It was very surprising to find out that there wasn’t a Real Estate group over at one of my favorite online community- BlogCatalog. There are however many real estate blogs listed on BlogCatalog.

Anyway, if you are real estate blogger or a real estate agent who blogs consider joining both BlogCatalog as well as Real Estate Group. Evidently BlogCatalog is removing inactive groups and groups that are three members or less. I will be writing in the future how online communities like BlogCatalog can help you grow your real estate business.

If you are already active BlogCatalog member please comment and leave the link to your blog so I can review and rate it via BlogCatalog’s rating/voting system.

If you ever plan to move to Kentucky, make sure to consider building a home instead of buying one.

Eirecon Home Builder can help you out! Eirecon has been building affordable custom or semi-custom homes since 1998 and is currently offering 18 home models to satisfy just about any taste without depleting your pockets.

At the moment Eirecon has build and continues to build homes in following Central Kentucky communities: The Paddocks, Kearney Hall, The Home Place, Garden Meadows, Waveland Estates.

In some of these communities you can build your own home for as low as $120,000!

For more information and contact details visit this Lexington Kentucky Home Builder‘s webiste.

Just found this video on PropertyMaps blog. Evidently there was an opposition to against featuring the data on sex offenders on their website. Currently any one can check this information at National Sex Offenders Registry, PropertyMaps just makes it a little bit easier for home buyers to locate such information:

According to some reports Foxtons a New Jersey based real estate firm may be filing for bankruptcy. Foxtons were well known in New York Metropolitan area for selling homes for as little as 2% commission, while traditional brokers ‘ fee in the same are is about 6%.

Young real estate agents where often attracted by the monthly salary as well as use of the company car and some other benefits offered by Foxtons. But no more. Foxtons announced to release 350 of their 380 employees.

When selling your home through a real estate agent, generally two agencies are involved in the transaction, the sellers broker and the buyers broker. The traditional fee is generally divided on 50/50 split basis. While Foxtons have attracted many sellers by their low commission, other Realtors may have avoided showing properties listed by Fostons because of the low potential income.

PropertyMaps, a free map based real estate search website, is gaining in popularity. According to a recent press release, the website added all the MLS listings of Naples, FL area to their database.

PropertyMaps uses real Multiple Listing Service in combination with popular mapping tools such as Google Maps, Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth. Visitors can quickly and easy search and visualize millions of real estate listings.

While anyone can use the website to search for a property, there are certain benefits real estate brokers should not pass the opportunity to sing up for free- main of them being lead generation.

PropertyMaps when working with real estate brokers, does not require any up-front cost, while offering up to 10 contacts/leads for free.

From the technical point PropertyMaps is designed very well and provides a superb user experience. Unlike ePrerks, PropertyMaps focuses its services exclusively to real estate.

In the future we will continue coverage of PropertyMaps as well as other “cutting edge” real estate websites, so please stay tuned and subscribe to our website.