Guest Blogger Alex Cortez is a Realtor in Hawaii, specializing in Maui Condos. Visit his Maui Real Estate Blog for local market information.
The importance of social media in a real estate professional’s marketing plan is undeniable. And although there are many different approaches as to how to best implement a strategy, the need to streamline [...]
MLS powered search site Roost launched a brand new redesign last week (see Roost.com announces redesign).
Unfortunately, it undid a lot of what I thought made the old site great. But hopefully we only seeing the first iteration of this next generation site and the site will continue to evolve.
Here are a couple things I picked [...]
We haven’t heard much from Roost, the IDX driven search portal, as of late. Last we heard of them they had redesigned their search pages to deal with a growing overabundance of search filters (see Roost Redesigns Search Results).
But news this week that they have expanded the markets they serve (see Roost Makes Its Nest [...]
In a move reminiscent of the current US election campaigns, Roost, the MLS-driven real estate search engine released a series of YouTube videos today showing how its results best those returned by Trulia, Google and Yahoo.
Check ‘em out.
Trulia[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtjC5SKH4qI[/youtube]
Google[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS5mFDyjHQQ[/youtube]
Yahoo[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1FL-yH8E7U[/youtube]
Roost’s conclusion? That using these sites “homebuyers waste tons of time searching through homes that aren’t actually [...]
Roost has announced its network of broker partners and it’s a pretty impressive list. Just a few of them named in their press release:
@ Properties
Advanced Real Estate Services
Century 21 Carole White [...]
I do a ton of flying for business these days and one of my favorite travel search sites is Kayak.com (Farecast is another great search tool too). The idea was pretty simple – Kayak took a look at a crowded category on the Internet (travel sites) and told themselves they could do it better.
Roost.com, which [...]
