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IN THE NEWS
NAR
approves the display of MLS Real Estate listings on the
internet
The Top 8 Web Design Disasters:
Are you sending your visitors screaming?
NAR
approves the display of MLS Real Estate listings on
the internet
WASHINGTON
(May 17, 2003) – Homebuyers will be able to access
more comprehensive information about residential properties
over the Internet as the result of a new policy governing
the display of real estate listings adopted today by
the National Association of Realtors®.
Beginning
next year, brokers who participate in the nation's approximately
900 multiple listing services (MLSs) will be allowed
to display MLS property listings so that they can be
accessed by consumers on websites that provide on-line
brokerage services, which are known as virtual office
websites (VOWs). At the association's 2003 Midyear Legislative
Meetings & Trade Expo the NAR Board of Directors
approved the policy, which is the result of over a year
of research and deliberation by two NAR work groups.
NetReal.net sites are already compliant with this decision,
so you can include all the MLS listings in your area,
if your MLS board supports IDX...more
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The
Top 8 Web Design Disasters: Are you sending your visitors
screaming?
The following eight tips aren't meant to offend, but
to teach. I want to help you avoid the same terrible
web design mistakes that I made in my first few months
online. And, believe me ... when I look back on some
of MY first pages, I CRINGE with repulsion! So brace
yourself -- these could get kinda ugly.
DISASTER #8: Center everything down each page.
Centering ALL of your text
makes it VERY hard to read, and even harder to pick
out the important points. And, other than that, IT'S
TACKY! ...more
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- About 90 % of the homeowners in our country use
computers and the Internet
- In 2001 buyers used both newspapers and the Internet
equally in the homebuying process : 41% of the buyers
surveyed used both media. In 1997, for example, 51%
of the buyers used newspapers as a primary information
source while just 18 percent relied on the Internet.
- 77% of homebuyers who searched on the Internet
purchased their homes through real estate professionals
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63% of homebuyers who searched online felt the
Web shortened their search.
-41% of homebuyers used the Internet as an information
source.
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Homebuyers who searched on the Internet were actually
more likely to use a real estate agent to complete the
home search and close the transaction.
- Internet users tended to be younger and purchased
more expensive homes than other homebuyers.
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Virtually all homebuyers who used the Web found using
the Internet in their home search to be at least "somewhat
valuable."
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8 % of home buyers found their home on the Internet
last year, up from 4 % in 1999.
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