Fizber adds foreclosures
Real estate technology roundup
By Inman News, Tuesday, June 24, 2008.
Flat-fee real estate site partners with Foreclosure.com
Fizber.com, a real estate search site that also offers flat-fee advertising and property listing services, has partnered with Foreclosure.com to provide information on U.S. foreclosure properties.
The site offers to list for-sale properties on a multiple listing service for a $349.95 flat fee, to submit property ads to a variety of property search engines for a $299.95 flat fee, and a package of both services for $499.95.
The agreement with Foreclosure.com brings 600,000 foreclosure property listings to the site at http://fizber.foreclosure.com. Fizber also offers a social networking platform for its members.
Auction company expands operations
Purple Wave, an auction company that offers an online bidding platform and physical auction locations, announced today that it is expanding operations to cover six states.
The company offers real estate auctions and other types of auctions, and now has locations in Sierra, Nev.; Dallas, Texas; Kansas City, Mo.; Hays, Manhattan and Wichita, Kan.; Thomas, Okla.; and Pueblo West, Colo. According to the announcement, Purple Wave is investing in live video, mobile bidding and social networking.
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Submitted by Sean OToole on June 24, 2008 - 2:35pm.
The foreclosure media companies have certainly figured out that real estate companies make good affiliate partners to resell their services.
I hope that Realtor's carefully consider the end user experience, specifically whether they really want to send a customer who came to them for help to a 3rd party service charging for the information they hoped to get from the firm/broker/agent themselves.
I think a better model is for Realtors to actually help those customers who want foreclosure information, without pushing them into services with monthly charges.
Sean O'Toole
Founder / CEO
ForeclosureRadar.com