LighthouseListings.com
LighthouseListings is a real estate listing site that currently services the Northern California area. Users can add home listings easily, without having to create an account (a convenience similar to Craigslist) or having to talk to a realtor. Users can search for sale / rent listings via a simple search page. The site has a basic listing package which is free. Tiered premium packages are available too. They have about 140 listings currently, and a 12% monthly growth rate. They are also planning to go nationwide soon.
To create a new listing (for sale or rent), the user is walked through a series of simple pages asking basic details about the property. Users can now embed videos from sites such as Yahoo, YouTube and Photobucket too. They can add pictures by uploading to the site too (although I couldn’t find a way to remove a picture once added – hence the flower picture below).
The site competes in the space that has established players such as Zillow (free to post a for-sale listing) and ZipReality (not free, charges reduced commissions). These sites offer more features, are national and have an established user base.
LighthouseListings is a real estate listing site that currently services the Northern California area. Users can add home listings easily, without having to create an account (a convenience similar to Craigslist) or having to talk to a realtor. Users can search for sale / rent listings via a simple search page. The site has a basic listing package which is free. Tiered premium packages are available too. They have about 140 listings currently, and a 12% monthly growth rate. They are also planning to go nationwide soon.
To create a new listing (for sale or rent), the user is walked through a series of simple pages asking basic details about the property. Users can now embed videos from sites such as Yahoo, YouTube and Photobucket too. They can add pictures by uploading to the site too (although I couldn’t find a way to remove a picture once added – hence the flower picture below).
The site competes in the space that has established players such as Zillow (free to post a for-sale listing) and ZipReality (not free, charges reduced commissions). These sites offer more features, are national and have an established user base.
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LighthouseListings.com, an online real estate listing service, announces today that all their property listings will now be shared on Google Base, Google's open database program. This gives property owners greater visibility for their advertised property by making them searchable on Google. As property ads are submitted to Lighthouse Listings, they are automatically included into Google Base, therefore, when a potential buyer or renter visits Google and searches for a particular home, any Lighthouse Listings' ads that match their specifications will appear at the top of the results. Because Lighthouse Listings manages various property details such as location, number of bedrooms, year built and even a short summary, each property detail becomes a searchable criteria on Google's search engine. As a result, every Lighthouse Listings' ad inherits the power and popularity of Google. This new feature is just another free service included with all property ads submitted through Lighthouse Listings.
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