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BestHomePro Online Home Search Sortware Updated
September 5th, 2008 Categories: Buying a Home, Online Home Search
Version 2.0 of BestHomePro was released yesterday and I’m excited! I’ve been giving the fine folks over at BestHomePro feedback over the past six months on how Realtors, and more importantly home buyers, use online home search tools. They have responded with a very impresive upgrade to an already great search tool.
Here is a list of new features.
Results are instantaneous. As you select an area on the map and enter your criteria, the list of matching homes takes shape right before your eyes. As complicated as home search can be, I have no idea how they did this. But I’m glad they did!
Over 60 searchable features. This is way more than any competitive search tool. To be honest, it is almost too much. Whatever criteria you need will most likely be available with BestHomePro V2.0. But be careful. When you chose to filter by any given criteria, you eliminate everything that doesn’t match. The good news is if you have a specific need, you should be able to get a list of matching homes on your screen in moments!
New “Top 10″ alerts. Whenever a home on your Top 10 List changes you will receive an email, just like always. But now a thumbnail of the home will be available for all you visual people out there. And there is a new “remember me” feature so that you can instantly login to the site from the email.
Draw Mode now available. This is a big improvement. Remember how you used to have to zoom in and out on the map to specify a search area? And the best you could do was to plot out a square or rectangular area? All that has changed in V2.0. Now you can draw circles, rectangles, and my favorite: polygons, right on the map without zooming. The polygon feature will prove to be powerful. You can now select any odd shaped area to search simple by drawing it with your mouse.
Integration with social networks. Okay. To be honest, I have not test drove this feature yet. But they tell me you can now share your search results with online social network sites like Facebook. There are 30 networks now available for sharing search results. I guess I need to get a Facebook account and check this out.
Area amenities search. This will be especially useful for anyone relocating from another area. There is a field on the map where you can type search terms like “restaurants” or “healthcare” and find businesses and services close to the area where you are searching for homes. How cool is that?
More to come soon, but if you want to check out this new state-of-the-art home search tool, just click this link: Search Raleigh Area Homes
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