What do you think it signals when a city or town has more homes in foreclosure than traditional listings?

a)      Buyer beware – it means that market is headed for a fall

b)      Buy opportunity – it means buyers have leverage

c)      Neither

Please provide your answer in the comment section with any additional tidbits of information you might have.

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 Are you and your REALTOR® speaking the same language?

We see a lot of property listings here at Roost. And we’re self-confessed data geeks. So, when someone came up with the idea to analyze what those listings really tell home seekers, we couldn’t resist the challenge, and dove right in.

We wanted to take a look at some of the most commonly used words brokers use to describe homes for sale, and see how they varied by region and price [...]

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We’re very excited to announce a new member of the Roost.com team! As of today, Derek Overbey has joined Roost to help drive our Industry & Broker partner network strategy.

Derek comes to Roost.com from Intero Real Estate Services, a leader in the Bay Area real estate brokerage world, where he served as Vice President of Marketing. At Intero, Derek was responsible for the management and development of marketing, Internet, advertising and communications programs. His focus was [...]

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If you’re in the market for a home in Miami metro area may we recommend a new favorite site? Roost.com.

Roost.com launched in Miami Florida late last week. (sorry for the blog delay. We’ve been busy building the best homes search site on the web!)

Through strategic relationships with the local MLS board and local brokers like Prudential Florida WCI Realty consumers can use Roost.com to access full MLS listings updated multiple times each day. In addition, [...]

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We received a question from one of our users. He was trying to search for properties on a particular street. If one user has a question – there are probably others. So here’s how:

First way:

Start at www.roost.com
Enter in the city or zip that you’re interested in searching for homes for sale. Hit enter or search.
Once the properties load, you can use our “customer search terms” box in the upper left hand corner of the [...]

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Hi All,

Wanted to let you all know that we made some enhancements to Roost.com. We launched a bunch of cool new features:

1. Type ahead. As users begin to type in the city they’re searching for we recommend cities that match the what they’re typing. This speeds up the search process, helps with spelling errors and notes the number of listings in each city.

2. Virtual tours. If a virtual tour exists in the MLS in an area we [...]

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Roost Real Estate Search Launches in Greater Tampa!

If you’re a buyer looking for homes for sale in the greater Tampa area you’ve got a new solution – Roost.com. Roost, through strategic partnerships with local Real Estate brokers, including Prudential Florida WCI Realty now offers consumers powerful access to search all the current homes for sale in the Orlando Metro area and way beyond. Search for homes by School District, neighborhood, keyword, [...]

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This week Hyveup featured a video interview with Roost.com’s CMO Drew Izzo. In this video he talks about Roost.com and shows off some ways to use the site to find homes for sale. He also talks about how they are helping real estate brokers using the Roost platform.

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We’re very proud to unveil our beta version of Roost to the world today. At its core, Roost is a real estate technology platform with two very clear aims:

First, we empower local and regional real estate brokers in their online marketing and sales efforts by providing them with individual property search sites that help drive high quality visitors directly to them.

Second, we help consumers find the right home at the right price, by giving them [...]

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