“And it identifies and lets you search for “pre-foreclosures,” using a proprietary algorithm Diverse Solutions claims is more than 99 percent accurate”

One thing I noticed here was this tool just identifies properties tagged as “short sales”. It doesn’t seem to find all of them though. Am I missing something here?

-Days on Market (could weaken the seller’s negotiating position)

-Agent Remarks (’seller works swing shift and sleeps during the day, please do not open back bedroom door when showing’)

As a seller, you have the right to know that certain information is only being shared for qualified buyers.

One commenter said he/she is ‘forced to rely on my realtor for recent sales info…’ My question is, what’s wrong with that? If you’re working with an agent you trust, he or she will certainly know how to find comparable sold properties to present to you when it’s time to determine the value of the home.

I am not saying that I disagree with other websites that attempt to provide the consumer with more information. I myself am someone who does lots of research prior to making any major purchases. However, it is important to keep in mind that the data is subject to interpretation, and that sellers have rights, too.

James

Ask people for the info. Do a double opt in, where if I register, you immediately send an email asking me to confirm with a link to do so, and once I click that, I’m registered.

Then offer an easy to use preferences setting where I can tell you whether it’s okay to send me other kinds of email - AND HONOR IT. Also include language assuring me that you will not give 3rd parties my info, make it so I have to opt in to allow you to do that - AND HONOR IT.

These are standard online marketing practices, though many sites do not follow them well. But if you do that, you will get a reputation for being a safe place to leave contact info.

I love what you’re done - I hate how much information is hidden from non-realtors on HAR, and your interface is so much better (with HAR, it’s constant clicking back and forth, logging in over and over, etc).

If you offered data on recent sales I’d register in a heartbeat.

If you would like to check on real sold data you can do so via the link below.

http://houstonhomessource.com/.....t-CMA.html

The brokerage will be rolling out another existing web script in the very near future that will allow for a nearly instant CMA of sorts that does not require one to speak to someone to recieve. It will plot the solds and actives immediatly around an address. Giving a savy individual the ammo they need to have an idea of where there home is likely to sell.

The last web tool will hold graphs of the sales activity at the level of neighborhoods and zip codes. We would love to get an ear full on what the educated readers here would like to see, so please don’t hold your comments back.

I had always enjoyed playing around on the internet, but never really understood the power it will soon grant to the consumer until I was sitting in a class at Cornell University listening to Jon Klienberg(the first individual to come up with a page ranking algo that was used for the basis of what Google is today) who was teaching a class on the natural formation of networks. Today I feel like we are sitting at a point where the consumer will take back the concept of marketing. I feel that as time progresses marketing will have to be so targeted it is not selling, but rather putting the information the consumer desires in front of them at the right time. I feel that will be a major win especially following the mess the secondary mortgage market is wallowing through.

I have a major questions for the readers here. My broker has been debating what to do about showing sold homes data on the IDX search tool shown here in this post. He has permission to post the solds and would like to do so, however, to prestent the solds he is required to force registration. And the question then becomes “Would having access to real live sold home data be worth having to register as soon as you go to make a search?” If the majority of people would find the sold data so helpful they would not be turned off about registering then I believe he would likely post it as part of the search tool. I look forward to hearing what everyone has to say on this topic and feel free to ask any questions you might have of me.

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there are 100s like this; idk if they had bad data entry for the initial price or what, but it makes the % drop feature suspect.