Zillow Breaks Traffic Records in 2009
July 4, 2009 by Fred Romano · Leave a Comment
Real estate Web site Zillow.com announced it broke multiple records for site traffic and user activity in the first six months of 2009. An average of 8.3 million unique users visited Zillow each month during this period.
Spencer Rascoff, Zillow’s chief operating officer said
Home prices continue to drop in many areas, mortgage rates change constantly, and people have a lot of questions about their homes and their local markets. This is driving record numbers of people to visit and engage on Zillow.com
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About Zillow.com
Zillow.com is an online real estate marketplace where homeowners, buyers, sellers, real estate agents and mortgage professionals find and share vital information about homes and mortgages, for free. Launched in early 2006 with Zestimate home values and data on millions of U.S. homes, Zillow has since added homes for sale, a directory of real estate and lending professionals, Zillow Advice and Zillow Mortgage Marketplace. One of the most-visited U.S. real estate Web sites, with more than eight million unique visitors per month, Zillow’s goal is to help people become smarter about real estate in every stage of the home ownership process – home buying, selling, remodeling and financing. The company is headquartered in Seattle and has raised $87 million in funding.
Compare Connecticut Home Pricing
May 30, 2009 by Fred Romano · Leave a Comment
Trulia.com offers a great tool to help sellers and buyers compare pricing in their state and county. They call it the “Heat Map”
Features include:
- Compare home prices & popularity
- By neighborhood, city, county, or state
- Local market trends for listing & sales prices
- Find the most popular areas for home buyers
Using Tax Credit Towards Closing Costs
May 29, 2009 by Fred Romano · Leave a Comment
Great news that will help speed up the housing recovery and offer buyers more incentive to purchase a home now.
FHA-approved lenders received the go-ahead to develop bridge-loan products that enable first-time buyers to use the benefits of the federal tax credit upfront, according to eagerly awaited guidance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on so-called home buyer tax credit loans that was released today.
Under the guidance, FHA-approved lenders can develop bridge loans that home buyers can use to help cover their closing costs, buy down their interest rate, or put down more than the minimum 3.5 percent. The loans can’t be used to cover the minimum 3.5 percent, senior HUD officials told reporters on a conference call Friday morning.
Postlets Single Property Website
May 26, 2009 by Fred Romano · Leave a Comment
Postlets.com offers sellers or agents the ability to create a beautiful single property website for only $5. So what exactly is a postlet? Here are some of the key features and benefits that Postlets.com provides. See a Sample Postlet
A DEDICATED WEBPAGE
Every postlet comes with a dedicated, search-optimized landing page and a unique URL. You can use it in your marketing campaigns and share it on various websites including Facebook. Postlets also come in ten stylish themes complete with integrated maps and other nifty tools.
Search price reduced homes on Trulia
April 23, 2009 by Fred Romano · Leave a Comment
Today Trulia launched a tool that allows home buyers to search for “reduced priced” homes.
Home buyers, sellers, agents, investors and real estate junkies alike can now search for price reductions on Trulia.
Instead of talking about it, visit the Trulia website and read more…
The Housing Crisis Simplified
April 16, 2009 by Fred Romano · Leave a Comment
Unless you’ve been living under a rock over the past few months, it’s clear there’s a credit crisis that’s been very costly for US taxpayers–in short, we’ve had to “save” companies too large to fail.
There’s a lot of debate about what could and should have been done instead of bailing out these companies, as well as discussion concerning what we should do now that we’re knee-deep in this financial crisis.
How we got here is pretty simple, from a financial standpoint: the cause was a combination of greed and complex financial instruments, which even senior people on Wall Street didn’t understand. Credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations allowed risk-averse funds to invest in high return assets that were supposed to remove the risk. As people know now, this all fell apart and caused a global financial crisis..
Do you qualify for government bailout?
April 11, 2009 by Fred Romano · Leave a Comment
Are you are eligible for a government loan modification or refinance?
Use the self-assessment tools provided on the government’s new website to see if you are among the 7 to 9 million homeowners who may be able to benefit from MakingHomeAffordable.gov.
http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov provides homeowners with detailed information about these programs along with self-assessment tools and calculators to empower borrowers with the resources they need to determine whether they might be eligible for a modification or a refinance under the Administration’s program. Through this website, borrowers can also connect with free counseling resources to help with outstanding questions; locate homeowner events in their communities; find a handy checklist of key documents and materials to have ready when making that important call to their servicer as well as FAQs from borrowers in similar circumstances; and much more.
Real Estate Firms Favor Virtual Offices
March 13, 2009 by Fred Romano · Leave a Comment
We here at CT Realty Services have been operating a “virtual office” for quite a long time. It just makes sense since most of the work we do is online and on the phone. We meet with clients at their homes or their coffee house of choice!
“This is not a geocentric business anymore. The office has become less of a focus,” says Allan Bernardi, CEO of RE/MAX Dolphin. “Technology has reduced the need to get the client into the office. You need to go where your clients are.”
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Research market trends in your area
March 12, 2009 by Fred Romano · Leave a Comment
Trulia.com offers incredible data about property trends providing valuable local statistics. They compile data from various sources and bring it all together for the best consumer experience ever! You can research just about any town and get details about current conditions.
Claim your home on Zillow.com
March 10, 2009 by Fred Romano · Leave a Comment
If you’ve never been to Zillow.com, now is the time to go and claim your home for sale. Most of our listings are automatically posted to Zillow (through our feeds from the MLS), but you can still claim ownership of the listing.
Why should you claim your home? When you claim your home, you can update details about the property! Zillow has a database of millions of residential properties nationwide that buyers can browse, along with maps, estimates of a property compared against nearby properties, advice on loans, and a loan calculator.
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