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A Web2.0 Approach To Real Estate: Hawaii Life

Vlad Zablotskyy — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:25:01 +0000

Searching for a property in Hawaii? Than you should consider take a closer look at Hawaii Life- a real estate search engine that maps properties in Hawaii MLS with the help of Google Maps. Any visitors can search for Hawaii Real Estate property, but there are benefits to register an account so you can save the properties you are interested in for the future review.

At the moment Hawaii Life offers your an opportunity to search for Kauai Real Estate and Big Island real estate. Hawaii Life is promising to also include Maui and Oahu real estate listings some time this months.

Hawaii Life provides a unique way for a potential buyer to find their home in Hawaii Real Estate Market. In the snapshot below you can see that after performing your search for the properties, hovering with the cursor over the property picture will match the location of the property on integrated Google map an vice versa, if you point your cursor to a property on the map it will match with the picture of the property on the right of your screen:

With just one click you can save the properties you are interested in for a later review or even if you need to find out more information about properties, send a request to Hawaii Life:

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House4Cell A Revolutionary Lead Generating Tool For Realtors

Vlad Zablotskyy — Mon, 28 May 2007 04:06:25 +0000

Named by the Illinois Realtor Magazine a Prower Tool and by the Realtor Magazine as â€œCool Toolâ€, House4Cell offers unique and revolutionary opportunity for real estate agents to deliver instant information on their listings, while capturing lead information.

The new tool is designed to provide prospective buyers with information about listings via â€œtext messagesâ€, a capability found on most cell phones. All that a prospective buyer needs to do is to send a 1-word code to a special number. Within seconds a text message is send to the buyers cell phone with property description along with several photos of the property, while the homebuyer’s number is captured and sent immediately to the agent for follow up.

At the present time the website offers following plans to real estate agents:

$29.99/month- this plan allows to send up to 3 listings at one time and offers 10 additional free inquiries.
$39.99/month- this plan allows to send up to 6 listings at one time and offers 20 additional free inquiries.
$49.99/month- this plan allows to send up to 10 listings at one time and offers 30 addition free inquiries.

Each additional inquiry, beyond what is included in a plan are just 20 cents. A one time charges $10 per code applies to all new orders.

The cost effectiveness of this tool speaks for itself. With the lowest plan, a real estate agent will pay $8 per one property delivered to a potential buyer which in turn can generate a valuable lead!

Homes4Cell was developed as a result of branching out of Cellit Mobile Marketing- a leading provider of mobile marketing solutions.Similar Posts:

New Virtual Tour Platform Launched

Vlad Zablotskyy — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:04:48 +0000

First Home Tour announced the launch of e new virtual tour platform. According to the press release announcing the launch of this new platform, the site will offer RealtorsÂ® a simplified and cost effective way to create, upload, and showcase available properties. One of the highlights of the website is that each virtual tool can be instantly uploaded to your local MLS, Realtor.com, Google.com, Trulia.com and many other sites at no additional cost.

Following are some of the advantages of First Home Tour compared to other virtual home tour companies:

Unlimited amount of tours
Add up to 40 pictures
Instant creation of an image gallery from your virtual tour so users have multiple ways of viewing your listing’s images!
Choose your own background music
Choose how long each image is displayed
Create Introductions and Conclusions that can be reused for any tour
Add Titles and Descriptions to your tour
Copyright your own images with a watermark so other’s cannot reuse your pictures
Brand your virtual tour into your own website so clients see your contact information!
24 Hour technical Support via Email

About First Home Tour:

First Home Tour is a subsidiary of Blue Stream Server, who has been providing valuable solutions in the Real Estate market for many years. Comprised of a team of Realtors and Programmers, First Home Tour dove into this project head first with the leadership from their President, James Goodale. The First Home Tour technical team will work directly with you to ensure the highest quality web experience possible.

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Real Estate Links Bubble Burst- May 14, 2007

Vlad Zablotskyy — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:54:33 +0000

Our blog is a found member of Real Estate Community over at BumpZee! In efforts to introduce this wonderful and one of the fastest growing community on the Internet we have decided to introduce “Real Estate Links Bubble Burst”. What is it? It will be a short post of the finest real estate articles from the blogosphere. If you would like to make sure we keep an eye on your blog and highlight your posts join BumpZee! Real Estate Community- if your blog is already submitted, you can claim it there.

Following are the post we chose for today’s “Real Estate Links Bubble Burst”:

The Anatomy of a Credit Bubble

Top 5 Mistakes Made By Real Estate Investors During the Housing Bubble

60 Minutes and real estate

Cash Equivalency, Terms, Time, Location and other Adjustments Often Omitted

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Featured Website: BuyHomesOnTour.Com

Vlad Zablotskyy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:37:52 +0000

Founders and creators of www.buyhomesontour.com have incorporated Google maps technology into their website to help buyers to find homes. According to a press release, the website offers real estate agents to list unlimited number of listings on Buy Homes on Tour for $19.99 a month. Low price comparing to other advertising avenues available for real estate agents and brokers to advertise their listings. While the website is currently features limited listings in Arizona, the idea is quiet brilliant and if it catches up, website can become a good place to advertise real estate properties.

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New Jersey Realtors Are Beginning To Use Pay Per Call

Vlad Zablotskyy — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:12:02 +0000

If you search at AOL for the terms â€œrealtor, njâ€ or â€œfsbo, njâ€ following adds appear on the top of the search results:

Pay Per Call seams to be gaining in popularity among New Jersey Realtors. In comparison to well known pay per click advertising, which does not suites real estate industry as well as other businesses, pay per call may become much better solution.

One problem that many real estate websites have when it comes to pay per click advertising is that transaction does not happened on the website itself. There are no shopping carts nor thank you pages where you would insert necessary HTML code to keep track on ROI (return on investment). Many people may visit your website but until they actually pick up the phone and call you, these visits can be hardly seen as â€œleadsâ€. Until such time (likely never) as we will be able to sell or buy real estate property with a click of a button, there will be no certain way to calculate ROI.

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The Crossland Team- Austin TX Real Estate Professionals

Vlad Zablotskyy — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:11:12 +0000

The website of Steve and Sylvia Crossland, an Austin, TX Real Estate Brokers have cut our attention. If you are thinking to move to Austin, TX there no one more qualified than The Crossland Real Estate Team to help you find your new home.

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Both Steve and Sylvia had been practicing real estate in Austin since the late 1980s. Their background speaks for itself. Before entering Real Estate, Sylvia was a very successful Interior Designer in San Antonio and Austin. The Real Estate is a living tradition in Sylvia’s family. Her grandmother has built many of the vintage homes that are still stand in Austin. Steve has been active in Real Estate since 1985 and is a graduate of Texas in a Management Information Systems, which may explain their great website along with a blog (not too many real estate gents discovered power of blogging yet!)

On their website not only will you find great choice of Homes and Real Estate properties in Austin, but on their blog you will find an incredible amount of information when it comes to Austin Real Estate. The Crossland Team should be first to consider whether you need to sell your property, buy a new home or if you are thinking about real estate investments.Similar Posts:

Foxtons Tri-Stat Real Estate Agency

Vlad Zablotskyy — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:12:41 +0000

The Foxtons real estate agency have been in business since 2000. With it’s headquarters in Monmouth County, New Jersey, Faxtons within very short time have become a Tri-State phenomena, offering sellers to put their properties on the market for Commission of only 3%. While it was not a welcomed news to many well established real estate agencies in NJ, Foxtons quickly became very popular and generally a â€œfirstâ€ choice real estate agency in the state of New Jersey where most of the agencies ask for 4-6% commissions in order to list your property on the market.

Foxntons are one of the very few companies that offers a base salary to the new agents in addition to a company car as well as a personal computer. If you are considering a real estate career you may find more about career opportunities at Foxtons here.

Foxtons Real Estate Web Site Review.

Company’s website can be found at http://www.foxtons.com and it is probably one of the best real estate websites. When you arrive at their front(home) page of Foxtons website you have an option to chose one of the three states of the Tri-State area: New Jersey, Connecticut or New York. The navigation of the website is very clear and is straight to the point, you know right away that you are on a real estate website. The website provides helpful information to buyers and sellers alike. You can also find information about mortgages and real estate attorneys as well. The Foxtons website is indeeed a â€œone stop shopping destinationâ€.

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Truth In Advertising for FSBO Sellers

Vlad Zablotskyy — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:03:04 +0000

By Raynor James

When selling your home for sale by owner, you will be handling your own marketing. This leads us to the issue of what you put in your marketing materials in relation to your home.

The real estate industry is somewhat like the used car industry when it comes to certain areas. Each is known for using terminology that could be considered to perhaps stretch the boundaries a bit. â€œNew paint jobâ€ in a car add can often be translated to â€œnew paint job because the car was damaged in an accident.â€ When it comes to real estate, a unique set of terminology also applies. â€œCozyâ€ is often a term interpreted as meaning small. â€œVery cozyâ€, of course, means a home that is basically two closets hammered together!

As a FSBO seller, you need to give some thought to the terminology you will use when marketing your property. I am not so much referring to legalities as I am to common sense truth in advertising. It is tempting to list the possibilities of a home despite the fact the property offers no such basis for doing so. Such phrases I often see are things like â€œpotential for viewâ€ without mentioning the buyer will need to add two stories to the property to get a sliver of a view! In my opinion, such advertising is a bad approach.

When marketing your property for sale, it is important that you be accurate. Yes, you can use terms that promote the strengths of the property. You should not use terms that are not based on how you use the home. If you have a two bedroom property in which you sleep in one bedroom and your child in the other, language regarding a home office, game room and such is probably misleading unless you have other rooms that specifically are being used for that purpose.

The problem with stretching the boundaries with your marketing has to do with expectations. If a potential buyer reads your ad and thinks it matches what they are after, they expect to see the attributes when they arrive. If they do not, they certainly will not be making an offer. This will lead to negative commentary among buyers regarding you and your home. You should never require a buyer to have a vision of the far reaching possibilities of a home.

As a FSBO seller, being accurate in your marketing materials is critical. Yes, you may get fewer buyers visiting your property, but you will get a better quality of buyer, to wit, a buyer more like to make an offer. At the end of the day, that is the point after all.

Raynor James is with FSBOAmerica.org – real estate articles on selling your own home.

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Century 21 Property Search Gold Beta

Vlad Zablotskyy — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:34:05 +0000

Century 21 has introduced new â€œgadgetâ€ to their website. Property Search Gold Beta still in testing is a combination of MLS and map technology. Microsoft Corporation is providing map data.

This new feature provides new and improved way to find a home. Century 21 warns their visitors that to have complete list of properties, the standard property search should be used.

Introducing new â€œgadgetsâ€ to Real Estate is not new. A week ago Coldwell Banker has introduced a feature that will notify â€œhome-huntersâ€ about new properties via RSS feed.

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Yahoo! Real Estate.

Vlad Zablotskyy — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:20:26 +0000

There is no doubt that Yahoo! Has taken Real Estate business to yet another level altogether. Combining the power of search industry with map technology can be very powerful for real estate.

If you never visited Yahoo! Real Estate before we recommend you to do so now. The amount of information you will find researching real estate properties is unmatched so far. After you submit a query for a particular property the results come back in a form of a map so you can see exact location of the property your are interested in. It is very easy with Yahoo! Real Estate to check out the local market conditions, where you can findÂ other valuable information.

Yahoo! Real Estate is revolutionizing the Real Estate business. Internet changes the way Realtors generate leads and even sales.

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Realtor.com

Vlad Zablotskyy — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:58:22 +0000

Realtor.com is the official web site of National Association of Realtors. The website allows you to search for new home, mortgage rate quotes, find real estate agents and access information about relocation services throughout the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The interface of the website is very easy to use. Right after you come to the website, from home page you will be able to find a property anywhere in the US. After locating the property you are interested in, you can either e-mail the information to your own Realtor or contact the office that listed the property.

Technical Aspects of the Website:

The website is well designed and is most visited Real Estate estate website on the Internet. The download time can be improved. If you are connected to the Internet via 56K modem, your â€œwaiting” time at Realtor.com can be as long as 45 seconds. If you have T1 1.44Mbps connection, Realtor.com will download under 2 seconds.

Reviews and Feedback:

It is not clear if Realtor.com offersÂ thier visitors to leave feedback on their site. At least we could not find this option. There are few reviews available at Amazon.com written by visitors as well as by Real Estate Agents. To read all the Realtor.com reviews go to Amazon.com

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