Homeowners May Be in Denial About Home’s Worth
How much is your home worth? According to a recent survey conducted by
Zillow.com, one of our most popular real estate directories, home-owners are not realistic about their home’s value.
The Zillow® survey of homeowner confidence conducted by Harris Interactive® found that 72 percent of homeowners believe their home's value has increased or stayed the same the past year. However, according to Zillow, the reality is that 75 percent of U.S. homes actually decreased in value from the same period a year ago.
They also found that homeowners in the Northeast are closer to reality on their home’s value, while those in the West were way more optimistic regarding the number of homes whose value has decreased compared with the actual numbers.
"While we assume there's a fair bit of owner denial reflected in these results, we also believe a large portion of the population simply isn't paying close attention to their housing market because they're not currently looking to sell or finance," says Stan Humphries, Zillow.com vice president of data and analytics. "But even among those who say they're planning home-related activities this year, confidence appears strong despite continuing declines. Approximately one-third of homeowners say they are equally or more likely to sell their home, refinance or take out a home equity line of credit this year, which is essentially unchanged from sentiment in the fourth quarter."
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Trulia Launches Ad Network
It seems everyone is starting an ad network these days, and one of the most popular real estate Web sites that we submit all flyers to is jumping on the bandwagon.
Trulia, a residential real estate search engine and the fastest-growing U.S. real estate Web site, according to comScore, announced this week that it is launching a dedicated real estate ad network across targeted real estate Web sites. The sites, which include Oodle, Homes & Land and The Savvy Source, will expose advertisers to 10 million unique visitors per month.
"Recent years have seen a dramatic rise of the Web as a primary source of information and research for prospective home-buyers, and advertisers are adjusting accordingly," says Pete Flint, co-founder and CEO of Trulia. "The Trulia Ad Network facilitates this shift by making it simple for advertisers to achieve targeted reach across a large number of relevant, high-quality content sites, while helping publishers capitalize on the growing movement of real estate ad dollars online."
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More Mileage for Your Home Sale Flyer
Now you’re getting even more mileage out of every home listing flyer you post to our site. We’ve recently added four new real estate directories, some of which are doing some really cool things, to our list to which all home sale flyers are posted. The new directories include Housefront, USAMLS, Properazzi and DotHomes. Let us tell you a little bit about them.
HouseFront provides consumers with access to property valuations, details, market trends and sales history on more than 100 million homes in the U.S. directly to their mobile phone or desktop computer.
USAMLS, a Free National Open Access Multiple Listing Service, allows realtors, builders and consumers to list both national and international properties for sale alongside a mapped location of the listing. The site also allows potential buyers to easily request more information from the listing brokerage.
The world’s largest property portal with listings in more than 50 countries,
Properazzi aggregates millions of properties from just as many estate agents and property Web sites.
Finally,
DotHomes is a real estate search engine that provides house hunters with access to more than one million results summaries that link to directly property details on the original listing broker Web sites.
We’re always looking for ways to give you more bang for your buck and get your listings out in front of more potential buyers.
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Take a Virtual Stroll Through Your New Neighborhood
Trulia, one of the most popular sites that we post all real estate flyers to, has added a new feature to help its viewers get a better feel for a home’s surroundings. Trulia says it is the first national real estate site to add Google Map’s Street View technology, which allows visitors to “virtually” walk through a home’s neighborhood with 360-degree views using real photos.
The company already used Google Maps; however, says Trulia co-founder and CEO Pete Flint, this takes it one step further. "Our users tell us that they are looking to move into a community, not just a house,” he says. “With the addition of Google Maps Street View, consumers can see everything they need to know about a home on Trulia without ever leaving the comfort of their couch. With Street View now available on Trulia, you can get the true view of a neighborhood and narrow down your choices before ever making a visit."
The new feature is currently available for 40 metropolitan areas.
According to Trulia, it is the fastest growing US real estate Web site with more than 4 million unique visitors per month.
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Job Postings Reach Further
ClassifiedFlyerAds.com recently formed partnerships with several top online job directories to expand the exposure of all job posting flyers. Now all employment listings uploaded to the site are posted to Jobalot, juju and SimplyHired.
Jobalot, a division of Dominion Enterprises, is a vertical job search engine that provides employment seekers one source for finding jobs through aggregating targeted and niche job boards.
Juju is a job search engine that offers quick access to jobs listed on thousands of employer Web sites and job boards online.
Simply Hired is the world's largest search engine for jobs and a cost-effective recruitment advertising network for employers and recruiters.
Here’s hoping you find the best candidate for the job!
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OLX Joins ClassifiedFlyerAds’ Directory List
Now even more of the world is seeing your flyers! We recently added
OLX, a free online classified service, to our list of directories to which all our flyers are posted.
OLX, similar to Craigslist, posts classifieds by local area. Whether you’re selling a product, posting a job, selling a home or car, or promoting a service, now people can find you one more place online.
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You Decide!
Are there some directories on which you don’t want your listing to appear? No problem. We’ve updated ClassifiedFlyerAds.com to give you complete control over the directories to which your flyer is posted. Pick and choose where you want your flyer to appear by de-selecting any directories you’d like to exclude (all directories are selected by default). Any questions or suggestions? Give us a shout!
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Trulia Breaks Top 10
One of our directories that we post all flyers to, Trulia, a real estate search engine, is now one of the top 10 most visited real estate Web sites in the U.S., according to an
article on MediaPost. Providing information on homes for sale, including neighborhood guides and discussion boards, the site reported in December that it almost tripled its audience from the year before, growing from 579,000 unique visitors to 1.6 million. So rest assured that your flyers are getting lots of views online just from this one directory alone!
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Zillow Joins Our Listings
We are always looking for quality directories to add to our syndication list and are happy to announce that we now post all real estate listings to Zillow.com, a popular online real estate Web site. Adding Zillow.com to our list of directories will certainly help add value to your flyers and produce more results for you and your clients.
If you know of a quality directory that you think we should include, please let us know.
Email us, submit your idea
online or chat with us live!
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ClassifiedFlyerAds.com Teams up With Kijiji
Good news! Now when you post a flyer on ClassifiedFlyerAds.com, your flyer will appear on the popular site Kijiji.com's classified ads directory.
Launched in 2005, Kijiji is a group of free, local, community-based classifieds Web sites. Their ads reach all 50 states, more than 220 US cities and more than 1000 cities/neighborhoods worldwide. They are also associated with eBay, which owns a minority stake of the company.
With eBay's expertise of bringing buyers and sellers together along with plans to add PayPal as a safe purchasing option, our members will now enjoy the benefits of exposure on one more leading ad directory. This is an important step in our goal of becoming the premiere online
classified ad creation site.
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House.com Added as New Directory
ClassifiedFlyerAds.com is happy to announce that we now
distribute real estate listings to House.com. With over 17,000 real estate and mortgage professionals in the House.com network, we felt adding them as one of our distributions partners was a perfect fit. In addition to
syndicating your listings to House.com, we also distribute them to over
20 other directories and feeds.
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