Sometime between today 6:00 PM PST and Tuesday REALTOR.com® will completely switch over to their new site which is currently available as REALTOR.com® Beta.
The long need enhancements to keep up with Web 2.0 sites like www.trulia.com and www.zillow.com, just to name a few, are now becoming permanent.
A couple of highlights of the new REALTOR.com® are:
- Get Instant Property Info
- Preview Property Type
- See Homes with Multiple Photos and Featured Tours First
- Refine Your Search Instantly
- Save Time by Saving Your Searches
- Forward a Property by Email
- View Property Information Faster
REALTOR.com® rested on their laurels and, thanks to Allan Dalton, long needed changes are finally underway. With the roll out of the new website, mile-stone features like streaming video uploads will be made available to enhance property listing.
Listing aggregators like Zillow, Trulia, Google Base, Point2, HomeGain, RealtyTrac or Yahoo! Real Estate recognized early on and provided what the consumer really wants - easy access to information while remaining anonymous.
We shall see if REALTOR.com® can make up for having been asleep behind the wheel for quite some time, or if sites like Sellsius will ultimately be the winners.
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Christoph Schweiger is a 35-year-old real estate agent living with his wife and son in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona ... 
Jonathan Dalton on Apr 28, 2007
I think the gents at sellsius are great, but until there’s a larger base of listings on the site, it ends up being just another one of the dozens of splintered sites with partial listings.
Christoph on Apr 28, 2007
Dang! There is no spoon in Arizona….
Joseph Ferrara.sellsius on Apr 28, 2007
Valid point Jonathan.
That’s why we are not stricly a listing site — we are a professional community classifieds site—which allows other professionals that support real estate to contribute more than listings. It just so happens that along with listing in a directory, classified ads, user generated content, and a forum, members can list any type of property (sale or rent) or business for sale.
But there is a cool tool members can use NOW–regardless of the # of listings on the site —the Sellsius link –an ad tagging tool which lets you track traffic from PRINT ADS.
Take a look:
http://sellsiusrealestate.com/html/popup_sellsius_link.aspx
Thanks for the kind words of encouragement Christoph.
Ernie Tabel on Jun 22, 2007
“…thanks to Allan Dalton…”?
It’s amazing how utterly mistaken so many people’s ideas of the inner workings of Move, Inc., really are.