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Access on the Web:
As Your Agent,
According to the National Association of Realtors’ 2009 Profile Report, approximately 90% of homebuyers used the internet to search for homes. I understand the need to provide your house with maximum exposure on the internet, both on a national and local scale. Consequently, your home will be posted the following top home search sites:
- Multiple Listing Service (MLS): Your listing will be immediately sent to the Carolina Multiple Listing Service, owned by the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association (CRRA). This site is the primary source used by area Realtors® to search for current home listings in the Charlotte area and its 29 surrounding counties. The Carolina Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is accessed by licensed Realtors® and it is the trusted source to obtain the most accurate and timely listing information.
- Realtor.com: Your home will be on Realtor.com, the #l site in the nation for real estate property searches. Realtor.com is a well-known, trusted source for accurate real estate information and averages billions of hits on a national scale - users can search for homes from across the county.
- CarolinaHome.com: This site is the primary source to search for current home listings in the Charlotte area and its 29 surrounding counties. Carolinahome.com is the public website for the Carolina Multiple Listing Service (MLS), so this site will display the most accurate and timely listing information.
- DingwellDwellings.com: Your home will appear as the Featured Listing on www.DingwellDwellings.com. Potential buyers will be able to access additional pictures, driving directions, and remarks regarding your home.
- Google Maps: Google Maps for Real Estate (formerly GoogleBase) makes your house searchable on Google. Your house will be displayed on a map, allowing consumers to hover over listings to get the basics, and click to see more details. The search results include photos, street view, aerial views, nearby businesses, schools and more. By having your house’s information added to Google, you can ensure that the right potential buyers will be able to search for your house, right when they're most actively looking for them.
- Yahoo! Real Estate: Your home will be posted on Yahoo! Real Estate to reach the Internet's largest classified audience. Users of Yahoo! Real Estate Classifieds number in the millions. In addition to surfing more than 3 million properties for sale or for rent, consumers can also view maps with homes for sale, schools, parks and more.
- AOL Real Estate: AOL Real Estate is a resource for home buyers and renters of all demographics offering consumers the necessary tools and resources to make a smart investment. The site is focused on delivering a customized experience for multiple audiences, including first time home buyers, buying a second property, renting, selling or home improvement.
- Trulia.com: Trulia.com is a major residential real estate search engine that helps consumers search homes for sale, trends and neighborhood insights. It is used on a national scale by millions of users, thus providing more exposure for your property.
- Zillow.com: Zillow is one of the largest real estate Web sites, with more than 4.5 million monthly visitors. 70% of Zillow users are actively buying or selling a home, or plan to within the next 1-2 years. 87% of Zillow's customers are likely to recommend Zillow to someone they know. Consumers consider Zillow one of the most useful sites during the home buying process.
- FrontDoor: FrontDoor.com is an online real estate listing and information service powered by HGTV, the Number 1 source for home-related media content. The site currently offers more than 1.5 million listings of homes for sale and partners with top real estate brokerages throughout the U.S. In addition, FrontDoor provides exclusive, original expert advice and videos featuring nationally known talent and a comprehensive library of engaging, interactive tools, guides and information.
- Oodle: Oodle makes it easy to use online classifieds - bringing together loads of listings from hundreds of local and national sources and helping consumers find exactly what they are looking for--whether it be the right job, a great deal on a used ladder, or most importantly, the perfect home.
- HomeFinder: Homefinder.com provides your house with unmatched listing exposure on one of the most trusted sources for local real estate - your newspaper's online real estate section. We have combined the strength and impact of a nationally branded site, with our network of 138 online newspaper real estate sites nationwide. With 3,000,000+ property listings, HomeFinder.com is able to deliver a full snapshot of the local market to home buyers and sellers.
- HotPads: HotPads.com is the Internet's premier housing search engine, offering one stop shopping for all types of housing, including rentals, for-sale listings, foreclosures, sublets, roommate requests and corporate housing. It is free to search. HotPads gets rave reviews for its innovative features, which include map-based search!
- RealEstate.com: RealEstate.com is promoted via multi-million dollar national TV, newspaper and magazine advertising campaigns, which will ensure your home is seen by interested buyers both across the country and locally.
- Charlotte.com: Charlotte.com is the #l local site destination for Charlotte area Internet users as the "go to" site for news and information and averages 25 million page views per month and 650,000 unique monthly visitors.
- Vast: Vast.com’s mission is to build the world's widest, deepest, freshest and cleanest database of classified ads. They invest in superior technology for rooting out ads, wherever they may be, and for parsing and tagging them to make them easier to search.
- Homes.com: Homes.com, is one of the top 20 most visited websites in the real estate industry. A division of Dominion Enterprises, Homes.com is a leading provider of real estate marketing and media services, including brand advertising, property listing exposure, website development, search engine marketing and lead generation solutions. More than 4 million homebuyers visit Homes.com each month to search nearly 3 million homes for sale.
- InvestorLoft: InvestorLoft is the real estate industry's first professional-friendly resource designed to retain clients, protect commissions, generate more transactions and garner greater exposure with the most savvy community of real estate investors online. Site members can search our extensive database of listings by investor-centric criteria such as cash flow, cap rate, down payment, discount and more, generating the most relevant search results available for the investor buyer. Named by Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine as "Best New Real Estate Investor Tool 2008".
- LakeHomesUSA.com , RiverhomesUSA.com and OceanhomesUSA.com: LakehomesUSA.com, combined with RiverhomesUSA.com and OceanhomesUSA.com, are specialty websites that offer tens of thousands of water-related properties into a single database. As the largest waterfront real estate website on the Internet, consumers can search for all types of water-related properties and waterfront real estate specialists in over 1,000 local markets across the United States.
- MyREALTY.com: MyREALTY.com helps agents and real estate related businesses connect with consumers who are ready to interact. The company is a marketing and advertising portal with a worldwide reach and the home of GLS - the Global Listing Service - where consumers, agents, brokers, investors, banks and others come to market their Homes for sale, Land for sale, Rentals, Commerical Properties and more in the fastest growing worldwide database of real property data.
- CLRSearch.com: CLR Choice, Inc. is a real estate information company that seeks to enhance the real estate search experience by providing the data relevant to making an informed decision.
- PropBot: PropBot.com is the next generation's leader in Real Estate Searches based on natural language selection. Similar to what you would expect from your favorite search engine, PropBot.com allows you to search specifically for Real Estate. PropBot.com covers ALL types of real estate: Residential, Commercial and Land.
- Enormo: Enormo is one of the largest international real estate search engines for home-seekers from all over the world. Enormo is growing fast - it now gives brokers and real estate agents access to more than 1.8 million potential buyers and tenants every month! Buyers come from Europe, Asia, South Africa, the Americas and the Middle East. The search engine is available in 16 languages so you property is easily accessible to potential purchasers of many different nationalities.
- OpenHouse.com: OpenHouse.com allows homebuyers to see schedules for open houses in their area, view detailed information about homes, print a route planner, request information or a private showing, and sign up for e-mail alerts. OpenHouse.com consistently ranks among the top organic search results for "open houses" on the top Web search engines. OpenHouse.com is owned by Realogy Corporation, a global provider of real estate and relocation services.
- eRealInvestor: eRealInvestor provides the premier site for residential real estate investors. With the latest tools and information, real estate investors can find properties which meet their cash flow and return objectives. eRealInvestor's tools are integrated on Wall Street Journal Online and thousands of real estate agent websites.
- OpenHousesInc.com: OpenHousesInc.com is a professional Real Estate site which is committed to becoming the premier home finding destination on the web. The simplicity and user friendly design are key factors as to why OpenHousesInc.com is so widely used and accepted. Their goal is to create a site which works hand in hand with Real Estate professionals to drive potential buyers to the front door of your listing. But, don't let the domain name mislead you, they list all properties and highlight the Open Houses.
- HomeWinks: ProspectsPLUS!, a leader in real estate marketing for over 15 years, is proud to offer our consumer search web site, HomeWinks.com, to the real estate industry. HomeWinks.com provides an easy to use, simple-to-search resource center that allows consumers to search more than 1.5 million homes for sale or rent.
- Property Pursuit: The nation's largest independent property search engine. With over 3.2 million real estate listings, PropertyPursuit.com serves as a customer-friendly search engine to find most real estate listings across the nation.
- Property Shark: Professional investors are PropertyShark's biggest user base. They are typically savvy buyers and often are cash buyers. They range from long-term buy-and-hold owners specializing in income properties to foreclosure and distressed property investors who buy, improve, and immediately resell. PropertyShark customizes its search and property listing to each local market.
- Overstock.com: Overstock.com Real Estate is a national real estate search engine, focused on helping people identify great deals on real estate. Searches lead customers directly to property details. Your property will have access to 15 million unique visitors per month.
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