Friday, December 01, 2006

The future is ValueSearch™

First it was Homekeys who provided consumers free home value estimates of their homes in Florida. Then Zillow provided value estimates for 60 million homes in the country. Recently Fidelity National has provided a new web site (cyberhomes.com) for 100 million homes in the country and I am sure others will follow.

With the advent of Zillow's API, more and more web sites have popped up integrating Google maps with property and Zillow data. Now a new set of real estate web sites are starting to surface combining listings with estimated values provided by Zillow. Something Homekeys has been offering since March of 2005. We started building our technology in the summer of 2003.

Something else Homekeys has offered since early 2005 that can't be found anywhere else is a patent-pending technology called ValueSearch™. If your looking for a home in Florida and want to find the best deals, then ValueSearch™ is the only search today that will show you those listings in seconds. Because we have our own GIS systems, our own AVM algorithms, and we own all the code, we have been doing it better, faster, and longer than anyone.

The NAR and the local MLS boards now have their hands full with many web sites showing MLS listings illegally. Many of these sites show MLS listings without permission and knowledge of the listing agents and are not licensed. Incorrect pricing, descriptions, pictures, and detailed information never being kept up to date plague these web sites. Tie that to estimated values and value reports that take into account this wrong data and you really have a mess.

Homekeys is a licensed real estate company in the state of Florida and is bound to follow the MLS rules and regulations. You can feel secure in knowing that when your searching for an undervalued home on the Homekeys web site, it is based on the most accurate information to date. Information received directly from MLS feeds.

I think what Zillow has done is great and I expect Fidelity National with their resources to catch up to Zillow quickly and then take it to the next level. The next level of course being ValueSearch™.

At Homekeys the future is now. The future is ValueSearch™.

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