Market Leader, Inc. Message Board
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HV Competitor
FastValues
http://www.fastvalues.com
This is the parent company of The Real Estate Book home magazines. They were bought out recently by CitiGroup Venture division.
Everybody wants a piece of the Realtors pie.
Major revolt coming.-
because the market is/was turning...
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There's been the "Whatismyhouseworth.com"'s out there for years but with no advertising budget like SOLD. The one's were seeing now are companies that are adding something to something they already had. Like the Real Estate Book advertising the site in their print magazine or companies like Zillow which have investment backing.
Fidelity recently started offering a lead generator for agent websites using online home valuation as the hook. -
This seems to be basically a rip off of Housevalues initial website.
If Housevalues is bad, why are these guys doing the exact same thing? Aside from the initial page asking for a zip code, even the logo is similar. There are dozens of these sites:
http://www.thehomevaluecenter.com/
http://www.zipri.com/
http://www.parfaloo.com/housevalue/
Just do a search on Google for "Home Value".- 2 Replies to raininginseattle2000
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The Real Estate Book has never been kind to its advertisers. They took their advertisers listings and sold use of them for Lending Tree's website. I don't know how leads thru this website get distributed. Do they send leads to the local franchise and they give them out to their favorite advertisors? Or do they sell the leads to non-advertisors?
Real Estate Magazines are trying to beef up their online sites as the print ad business is heading for a shakeout.
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