Buy Owner Blog

Happy New Year! To celebrate, we’re kicking 2010 off with a series of daily posts in January that highlight reasons to sell with Buy Owner, giving you a total of 31 reasons there’s no better way to sell your home.

The series begins this afternoon, so check back here to see what’s in store!

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Buy Owner® has recently added maps to our online advertising, as well as updated our schools sections! These exciting new features give you the ability to enhance your property’s marketing the way you’d like, giving you maximum customization and control.

Here’s how the new features work:

NEW MAPS

Buy Owner advertisements now display custom maps that allow buyers to see where your home is located. Buyers who view your property can click for three different map views: (1) Map: the default option with street names (2) Satellite: a bird’s eye view from above or (3) Hybrid: a combination of the two that shows street names and a satellite view.

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Have you ever wondered just how many properties are being viewed at BuyOwner.com or wanted to see for yourself which properties were getting the most hits? With BuyOwner’s exciting new feature, Housefly, you can do just that. Like a fly on the wall, you’ll be able to watch the constantly updating list of just-viewed advertisements. Housefly [...]

Another database update is scheduled for Tuesday, May 7, at 7:30 AM EST. We estimate the service to be down for no more than one hour. Although you may not see any cosmetic changes, the update will be enhancing the database functionality. We will be moving to a faster, more powerful database server. New and [...]

As some of you may have seen, the BuyOwner.com web site was down for a few hours for some database maintenance. These new changes to the database have been put in place to accomodate some new and exciting features we have in store. The BuyOwner.com IT department appreciates your patience as we continue to better [...]

Buy Owner is proud to have teamed up with Guaranteed Rate to get you the best possible mortgage and the best possible service. To learn more about different types of mortgages, from 30-year fixed to interest-only loans, visit the Buy Owner website and click the Mortgage tab at top. Compare rates from different companies and see what [...]

Did you know? The now-available Best of Both Worlds program combines your Buy Owner advertising with MLS Realty‘s service. Choosing this option puts your home on multiple real estate websites and the local MLS. You’ll continue to enjoy professional, national advertising, plus all the perks of a full-service real estate company. See MLS Realty‘s website [...]

We are very excited about the upcoming launch of the redesigned Seller Dashboard. Virtually every page has been updated with a new, easy-to-use interface. The interface redesign is just the first step toward new and exciting features. Buy Owner® prides itself in giving you, the seller, the tools you need to help you sell your [...]