The Social Practice, a fully integrated British social media
agency has created a list of the ten social media trends nowadays. Below you
can see the agency’s presentation which shows what the latest trends in the
world of social media. Most of the trends they listed were not really current
as it is and some of them are laughable. However, I would like to share it with
you because it is also current on digital media trends and emphasizes data.
It is significant to know the current trends if you are a
business practitioner, whether you are a small or a big business owner. In real
estate, data is always important to us and knowing the latest housing market
trends of the area give us an advantage and are able us to create an effective
plans and strategies for our business.
Foreclosure
is one devastating event in the life of families and individuals in most states
in the country and even in the world. However, it opens a great opportunity for
first time home buyers to find a home way below its market value and new
investment opportunities for real estate investors. So if you are either the
two, here are some of the useful applications for your Android and Iphone in
searching for distressed property listings.
Foreclosure
Search – This is a foreclosure search application that provides realtors and
lenders a list of foreclosure properties from major banks across the country and
properties that are owned by the government that specifically works on Iphone
alone. This is offered for free by a private company, USHUD.com, which is not
affiliated with HUD the government housing agency.
Foreclosure
Genie – This application is ideal for investors who are in buy and sell rental
properties and foreclosures. What’s good about this applications is it not only
help you find the right property for you, but can give you calculations of how
much money you can gain and how long it will take back your capital from it. This
is a paid app that will cost you $1.99 per download.
ForeclosureOrganizer – You can start using this app which has magnificent features by
paying a download fee of $6. This is an app obviously designed to meet the
needs of real estate professionals and investors in searching and making
foreclosure transactions. It has equipped with features like tracked favorite
foreclosed properties, manage lien searches, tracking property significant
information and email information to your analysis team.
Complete
Foreclosures – This is a new app that runs on both Iphone and Android, for free!
Using this app will give users a chance to see all the latest and not-so-recently
and are still available foreclosures in the market. The list is automatically sorted
from the most recent first. Despite of being new, Complete Foreclosures still
managed to be voted on the top ten business apps featured in Forbes and Business
Week.
Many businesses especially in the field of real estate is
looking for something to make their website interesting and unique and one application
that can provides solution to all their problems regarding their website is the
Rumble Talk.
Rumble Talk is a great add-on to your real estate website in
a form of a customizable widget that allows each user to chat live while
browsing and reading information they needed in your website. It also allows
you to create a live community that is free to be access by anyone who will
visit your website. Interesting features of Rumble Talk includes a personalized
chat design for your needs, a “share” widget that encourage users to share your
website and their conversation on their accounts in various social networking
sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus.
Why you need to consider including this in your website?
One good reason why you should give a try using this widget
is that is it completely free. It can give your real estate website an amazing
transformation that will encourage your users to stay on your site for longer
hours and become engaged in the experience. Feel free to put it anywhere in
your site you want and make it perfectly fit in blog or website by adjusting
its size.
How can you start using it in your website?
You can enjoy the full functionality of this application in
just three simple steps that takes you around 60 seconds to complete the whole process
in adding this Rumble Talk in your website. First, you need to visit their official
website to sign up. Once you have done that, you are now allowed to get the
free embed code in which you have
three basic options such as a website embed code, a sharable URL and floating
embed code. After you pick the most appropriate option for your website, the
last step is to embed the HTML code into the back-end of your website
Over 50 other product updates and analytics for investors were included in the recently launch RPR version 1.10. This version offer new users an easier and clearer path in setting up new account, and existing users can fully enjoy some new enhancements and exciting features like analytic tool that can be use for evaluating the property on behalf of their real estate investor clients.
On the above video, Director of Social Media and Realtors Property Resource (RPR), Reggie Nicolay demonstrates the newest features added and enhancements made on this Realtors resource website. It shows how these features works and the convenience it brings to the users.
For those real estate professionals who are not yet familiar with Realtors Property Resource, this was created with a goal to build a national database of robust, property centric information covering every parcel of property in the country.
