Weichert Realtors Press Release
Weichert.com Offers New Features to Help Buyers Plan Weekend House Hunting
10/8/2007
MORRIS PLAINS, N.J. –
Searching for Open Houses can be an extremely daunting task for home
buyers. Now, Weichert, Realtors has made
this process easier than ever. Through
new enhancements to Weichert.com, prospective buyers can search through Open
House listings based on numerous criteria, have customized and printable Open
House tours created, and even receive weekly alerts regarding Open Houses in
their area of interest.
James M.
Weichert, president, said, “At Weichert, we realize that there are numerous
steps involved in finding the right house. These additions to our website bring
a new level of convenience and ease to the home purchasing process by allowing
prospective buyers to search for Open Houses based on their needs. With more and more consumers turning to the
Web to start their home search, we feel that it is critical to integrate Open
Houses into our Internet Marketing approach.”
By logging
on to Weichert.com, users can search for Open Houses based on location,
property type, price range, number of bed and bath-rooms, and even choose homes
that are exclusively new construction and/or in adult communities. Those who sign up for Weichert ValetSM
can save Open Houses searches for later viewing. The online house-searching
service on Weichert.com, Weichert Valet also enables users to sort homes,
assign ratings, make side-to-side comparisons, and add personalized notes.
To help
plan their weekend house hunting, prospective buyers can sign up to receive
weekly Open House alerts. After creating
a Weichert Valet account, users can elect to receive e-mails with information
on Open Houses planned for the upcoming weekend in the area specified in your
search criteria. By clicking the links
in the e-mail, you can access the full listings on Weichert.com, see all the
other Open Houses that match your specifications and even get directions to and
from the homes you wish to visit. For
those interested in visiting several Open Houses in one outing, a round-trip
route will be mapped out for you, with stops at each selected home.
Weichert.com
features Weichert listings as well as the listings of virtually all other
cooperating real estate brokers. Among
its popular features are the newly added open-house features, neighborhood
information, school reports, and buyers’ and sellers’ guides. Prospective
buyers seeking quick mortgage credit approvals can submit a streamlined
mortgage-information form directly from Weichert.com to Weichert Financial
Services, a Weichert affiliate.
Most
importantly, whether you call the Web site’s 800-number or send an e-mail, you
can expect an immediate response from a friendly Weichert Contact
Center specialist. That specialist can connect you to a Weichert
sales associate who’s able to answer your questions about a property and
schedule a time to see it.
One of the
leading real estate Web sites, Weichert.com gets more than three-million
visitors monthly. Indicative of its
usefulness, it consistently ranks among the top real estate companies for the
length of time that visitors spend on the site, according to Hitwise®, which
monitors major Web sites.
Weichert
has nearly 18,500 sales associates in over 500 company-owned and franchised
sales offices in key markets throughout the U.S. A family of full-service real estate and
financial services companies, Weichert helps customers buy and sell both
residential and commercial real estate, and streamlines the delivery of
mortgages and home and title insurance.
For more information, Weichert's customer service center can be reached
at 1-800-USA-SOLD or at Weichert's Web site, www.weichert.com. Each Weichert franchised office is
independently owned and operated.
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