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October 11, 2005
HomePages.com - A New Real Estate Site?
The folks at HouseValues.com have just launched another website. This one is called HomePages.com. Interesting name? One has to ask themselves, how easy will it be for them to make online consumers think of a website about 'homes' rather than 'homepages' of websites? I can just imagine the marketing meeting where this idea came up. "Hey, we've got boat loads of cash, let's just pay whatever it cost to buy this great domain name I heard was avaliable for our new site—HomePages.com!"
For you REALTORS® out there, it is a national IDX website designed to build the HomePages.com and HouseValues.com brand - not yours. When you perform a property search, the REALTOR who has purchased the zip code for that area is profiled (if you can call it that) on the top of the page. We can only assume that all 'leads' captured here will go to that agent.
Link: HomePages .
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Yes it’s definitely a good article, very useful information to consider. Good work keeps it up!
Posted by: Sale | Jan 3, 2006 1:58:37 PM
The HomePages service is interesting in its design, but I have found it very cumbersome to use effectively. As a REALTOR lead generation tool, its effectiveness is questionable.
-Randy
www.4mysales.com
Posted by: Randall Wilson | Feb 7, 2006 1:29:46 PM
Actually, do you think that the relative sameness of designs of certain real estate webdesign brands makes them more attractive to buyers (familiar) or boring? Let alone to agents (although it's less HTML to worry about!).
http://king-county.inside-real-estate.com/ - King County home
Posted by: Linsey | Mar 20, 2006 9:04:29 AM
