May 5th, 2009 by roostblog in Homes for Sale, Real Estate
With a ton of hard work and dedication, Roost.com is starting to get some great recognition for a really innovative real estate search engine. One of the best recommendations so far came today courtesy of Kim Komando, America’s Digital Goddess. Thanks Kim for thinking of us for this huge honor.
We hope to keep them coming. Check out Roost.com today.
December 19th, 2008 by roostblog in Announcement, General, Real Estate Marketing
A little more than a month ago, Roost launched property detail pages with a few select broker partners. We wanted to test the effectiveness of these pages so instead of the usual deep link to a broker’s property detail page from the search results page on Roost, consumers were directed to a property landing page on the Roost platform which has the broker partners branding and a strong call to action. The property detail pages were a solution to provide the [...]
December 16th, 2008 by roostblog in Features, General, Reaction
Obviously foreclosures have garnered a lion’s share of the real estate news over the last year. Many websites have popped up almost overnight touting the completeness of their foreclosure data but most sites only show a fraction of the properties available. Just like with our resale data, where we bring the most comprehensive data set because of our access to local MLS information, Roost has aligned itself with First American CoreLogic, a member of The First American Corporation to provide [...]
December 9th, 2008 by roostblog in Announcement
Like many folks, I lived through the .com bust and learned a great lesson. Terrific businesses can be built during tough times, but only if they’re adding real value to their customers.
Fortunately our mission has always been to deliver measurable ROI for Real Estate brokers. The fact that that is working is incredibly exciting. Despite ad $ being cut left and right, we’re bringing more clients on the platform [...]
December 9th, 2008 by roostblog in Announcement, Features
We’re pleased to announce a partnership with First American Corelogic today that brings the most complete set of foreclosed home listings to Roost.com. Now, in addition to Homes for Sale in the MLS, Homes for Sale by owner and New Construction property listings Roost can offer consumers access to over 1.5M properties in the foreclosure [...]
November 21st, 2008 by roostblog in General
Nominations are open for the Crunchies 2008 Awards! You can check them out here:
Nominations are open until Dec. 10 – if you love Roost, and think it’s the best place to find homes for sale, please nominate us for ….
…Roost has already been awarded the most innovative technology of the year
You can also nominate our fearless leader, Alex Chang …
October 7th, 2008 by roostblog in Features, General, Reaction
The credit crunch, bank failures and Wall Street meltdown has been the negative talk for the last several weeks. And before that all we tended to hear about was how bad the housing market had become. Has all this negative talk killed the American Dream of owning a home? I think not.
If you look at the increased traffic to real estate and real estate related websites like Roost.com, people are still out there trying to grab on to that [...]
September 23rd, 2008 by roostblog in Features
The Roost team has been getting up awfully early recently to support KQED Radio - San Fran’s public radio station. A host of us have volunteered to accept donations during the current pledge drive. Here are some fun pics of our infamous team members bringing home the bacon for our local public radio.
Here’s Kevin Friedman - aka “K-Luv” and Shirley Chen - aka “money-maker” driving hard to close a pledge this morning.
And Duc “bad-boy” Haba came in after training [...]
August 26th, 2008 by roostblog in General
Case Study Conducted By:
The WAV Group
www.wavgroup.com
Online property search for Dallas, Miami and San Diego
Online property search makes sense for consumers. Although the process of purchasing a home should always involve a licensed REALTOR®, shopping for a place to live or a home to buy can be done privately on an internet web browser. What are the best online sites for finding a home?
There has been a significant change in the landscape of property search in the past three [...]
August 19th, 2008 by roostblog in Announcement, General, Introduction
It is always interesting as a company when you open the kimono and let someone with a video camera run around your office and shoot pretty much anything they want. Such was the case when Lai Saetern of Inman News showed up last month to check out our San Francisco digs for a piece she was putting together.
Well after much anticipation, the story and the video were published yesterday and we couldn’t be prouder. As you [...]
