A Bird’s Eye View

It’s not going to come as news that the housing market is currently in crisis. And the root cause of that extends beyond the mortgage industry fiasco, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, etc. It’s equally a crisis of consumer confidence.
Part of the road to recovery will be helping people regain their faith in the process of buying [...]

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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 [...]

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The wait is over for those people looking for comprehensive, up-to-date real estate data in New Hampshire, Vermont, Western Maine and Northern Massachusetts. Roost.com flipped the switch today to provide the best real estate search experience possible for consumers looking for homes in the New England region.
A key to any successful launch in a new [...]

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Looking for homes for sale in San Francisco or Seattle?  Be sure to check out Roost.com.  Roost now offers the most comprehensive set of homes for sale in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA.
If you’re looking for a subset of the homes for sale in San Francisco and Seattle go somewhere else.  If you want [...]

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When starting a new business in a crowded space, it is your first priority to just be recognized. Especially in the world of real estate search, which by most accounts is pretty crowded. The second priority is to gain partners to use your product to help improve their business. And the third priority you may [...]

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So I was going to write another recap of the last two days to close out the Inman Real Estate Connect SF show but something happened as I started to put fingertips to keyboard….we won the 2008 Inman Innovator Award in the Best New Technology category.
Now this may be hard to believe, but with the [...]

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We’re thrilled to be part of the launch of a very cool new technology - SocialNotes on Roost.com. SocialNotes will allow Roost.com users to privately share a home listing via email or add to their profile on their favorite social network like Facebook, MySpace or bebo.  You can also post it to a Blogger, TypePad or WordPress blog [...]

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We’re now live in fabulous Las Vegas as well as Austin and Nashville metro areas.  So if you’re looking for a home for sale in those markets or any of our other markets, you can add a new favorite to your browser or social bookmarking site.
Roost.com now provides consumers access to homes for sale in [...]

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We are thrilled to announce today that leading real estate brokerage Baird & Warner has joined the Roost IDX Partner Network to support its online marketing programs.

Chicago-based Baird & Warner is the largest independent real estate broker in Illinois with more than $6 billion in annual sales. Founded in 1855, it is also [...]

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Exciting news in the Roost.com nest! We just found out that a great story on Roost.com has appeared in the July issue of The Pennsylvania REALTOR®. Our own Alex Chang provided some color commentary on the Roost.com value proposition and Steve Storti, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Prudential Fox & Roach, provided his own [...]

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