A new survey reveals that savvy consumers cashing in on the new and improved homebuyer tax credit are helping fuel economic recovery.
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Tag: coldwell-bankerSubmitted by Sawitonline -This one story end unit townhome is in a desirable location. Fresh carpet and paint. Living room has high ceiling and fireplace. Eat-in kitchen and dining area. Nice-sized patio near the front door. Community tennis, pool and spa. Located near shops and Los Cerritos. No smoking and no pets.
Listing courtesy of Shirley Richards, Coldwell Banker Westlake Village.
For information on FREE RENTAL SERVICE call Steve at 818-456-2800.
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Submitted by Sawitonline -Casa de Suenos is an incredible 8,059 sq. ft. private executive retreat built and staffed specifically for the entertainment of family, friends, or both large and small corporate outings. The "House of Dreams " is truly a one of a kind property within the gated Los Suenos resort community and within walking distance to al amenities. Your home away from home is only a short distance to all the resort amenities.
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* Dinner table for 14.
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Occupancy: A family or group up to 18 people. If only singles the best is 7 the max is 9.
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Submitted by Sawitonline -The Monaco Condominiums are perfect for those wanting to be near the center of Downtown Jaco Beach, within walking distance to shops, restaurants, the beach the new central park. Choose from 2 or 3 bedroom condos, starting at just $139 a night. Contact for availability. CONDOS FOR PURCHASE AVAILABLE AS WELL!
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Coldwell Banker Canada launched a new real estate application customized for Microsoft’s Surface technology today.
Coldwell Banker leveraged the unique interface and capabilities of Microsoft Surface to develop a home search application that will provide a new interactive and intuitive way to explore real estate listings and neighbourhoods. Over the course of the roll-out, the following features are scheduled to be released:
Explore. Home listings from across Canada and around the world can be viewed via area maps, specific search criteria such as city, province and price, and by standard number of bedrooms and bathrooms. With a simple touch of the screen, users expand or contract the search area and locate listings, Coldwell Banker offices and area amenities including restaurants, hospitals, schools – gauging the distance between them.
Learn. Details of a particular property listing are displayed and arranged by screen touches. Images of the home are easily accessed, enlarged and moved by hand movements.
Interact. File listings by “grabbing” content with their hands from the display and “dropping” it into the appropriate folder, thus creating an itinerary that they can email to a sales representative.
As you can see in the video, Surface’s multi-touch technology is put to pretty good use to highlight the experience of searching for real estate (I’d love to see even more, however). A couple of years ago I wrote that this sort of thing could be a way for real estate brokerages to move into more of an experiential marketing environment (see Surface Technology Could Save Full Service Brokers).
But, the Notorious ROB writes that “It Ain’t the Technology.” While I see his point, ultimately I have to disagree. It is about the technology. It is about experimenting and trying new things.
Sure – using Coldwell Banker web site on a Surface table is kind of goofy. But it’s a first step. And an important one. Future iterations of this type of experience will no doubt transform the way we interact with real estate data in the real world some day in the future (see Navigating a Virtual World).
Technology forces us to experiment. To try and yes, perhaps even fail. But kudos to CB for taking that step and continuing to push the industry forward.
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In what is likely the first of many more of these sorts of announcements in the real estate space, Redfin is laying off 20% of their employees.
In a post on its company blog yesterday, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman explained that the company’s bottom line was hit by market conditions that “wiped out prospective down-payments, tours and offers [that] dropped 30%”.
It surely must have been a tough decision, but kudos to Kelman for taking immediate and decisive steps to react to the change in the market — and for being so openly transparent about the process.
Because of the transactional nature of its business, Redfin is most certainly feeling the pain much sooner than some of its contemporaries – but I suspect this is only the tip of the iceberg, as more Real Estate 2.0 startups start to feel the pinch of the slowing economy.
In a story on Inman News today, research firm Borrell Associates is “forecasting that annual growth in real estate-related online advertising will slow to 11.3 percent in 2008 and 5.1 percent next year.” For sites pinning their hopes on advertising revenue, it looks like that might be drying up as well.
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UK readers, mark your calendars. On October 16th in London, industry professionals will be gathering with Inman News publisher Bradley Inman at 6pm at the Windmill Pub in Mayfair. It’s being hosted by the good folks at Nestoria and you can read more about the gathering on the following blogs: Nestoria Blog, theRatandMouse, Globrix Blog and Renthusiast.
Similar meetups will be held in the following European capitals:
Amsterdam – October 23rd (stay tuned to nieuwbouw20 for details)
Paris – October 27th
Berlin – Date TBA.
We hope to see you there! If you have any questions about any of these events; please feel free to email joel [at] inman.com.
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Not a dedicated app, mind you. But if you visit ColdwellBanker.com on your iPhone’s Safari browser now it’ll pull up a specially formatted version of the site.
They’re not the first company to do this (Realtor.com has an iPhone-ready page, as does Intero) but they are, as far as I know, the first to launch a major marketing campaign advertising this fact.
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The app itself looks great and is nicely thought out and pretty functional. You can search for current listings and, like Trulia (see iPhone Real Estate App Showdown), open houses as well. Search results return reasonably quickly on both WiFi and 3G.
The individual listing pages are fleshed out, though not as tightly integrated with multimedia as Utopria’s (see Utopria Brings Property Listings to iPhone). You can see all the photos associated with the home however. Clicking on Map Property link will bring you immediately to the Google Maps application for driving directions.
Unfortunately, because it’s not a dedicated app, the overall usability of this function gets a bit frustrating. Getting back to your search results requires several taps back and forth to switch between the map and the browser.
Also, CB’s tool does not seem to tap into the iPhone’s location awareness capability which seems a bit of a shame – you still need to tell it where you want to search.
Probably the biggest issue however is that (perhaps not surprisingly) ColdwellBanker.com on the iPhone only returns CB listings. Unfortunately, this severely limits the app’s use for consumers and as a result I can’t see many people turning to this tool beyond mere curiousity.
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