Comments on: Real Estate Websites: Choosing a Home Search

By: Real Estate Marketing, Point2 Agent Real Estate Websites and IDX | BRER Real Estate Marketing Blog

Tue, 11 May 2010 23:59:37 +0000

[...] until now, in my humble opinion, getting a truly full-featured real estate IDX search integrated into a real estate website has been difficult. Vendors that had strong websites had [...]

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:49:08 +0000

Mike,

Thanks for the comment. Keep in mind that this blog is a do-follow for the name of the person making the comments, but any links in the body of the comment are no-follow links.

By: Indianapolis Indiana Mike

Indianapolis Indiana Mike — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:07:02 +0000

I use both of the IDX vendors mentioned above for my Indianapolis real estate and Indianapolis homes for sale websites.

By: Real Estate Marketing, Real Estate Blogs: Use Your Blog to Increase MLS Search Leads | BRER Real Estate Marketing Blog

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:10:47 +0000

[...] you have a full-featured MLS search (learn more about choosing an MLS search), you know how valuable it is for a visitor to establish their own account on that search. You [...]

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:18:16 +0000

Nishika – Glad you found it helpful! There is a lot to consider.

By: Nishika Jones

Nishika Jones — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:07:50 +0000

This information was very helpful in researching a solution. Thanks Kathleen!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:24:45 +0000

Hello Land,

I’m not familiar with your site, so I took a look. It does look like a good place for agents to evaluate in terms of advertising land for sale.

Do you have an IDX-type search that agents could put on their websites? I doubt that agents will simply direct their site visitors to a site like yours since it would send the visitor right to the listing agent.

By: Land Incorporated

Land Incorporated — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:24:52 +0000

Hope people will consider niche searches for land sales site like our at Land Incorporated. They give more information on land than mls type searches do as well as fsbo properties. Land For Sale

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:06:19 +0000

Sam – I agree there is more than one viable third-party IDX MLS vendor. I think WolfNet and Diverse Solutions are particularly good vendors, though I realize you weren’t trying to promote WolfNet.

I guess people should also know that there are some vendors that don’t quite meet the mark of the two in this post. Either they don’t have the minimum capabilites I quoted above, or it is impossible to get someone on the telephone if you have a question, and so forth.

I agree with your idea of looking for features and ROI. Hopefully both our posts gave people something to think about in terms of the search on their site, and some idea of the types of capabilities that are out there.

Thanks again for the guest post!

By: Sam Chapman

Sam Chapman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:47:43 +0000

Kathleen – great tie in with my post as an example showing some stats as for what a great IDX feature can get you. I am glad you referenced a variety of IDX solutions. I was’t necessarily promoting WolfNet, but using them as an example. People need to look for features and then measure the features against the cost.