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Roost launches San Francisco and Seattle

August 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Announcement

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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Roost Real Estate Speak Report

July 1st, 2008 · 7 Comments · General, Introduction

 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 [...]

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Roost.com adds more industry savvy to the pedigree

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Announcement

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 [...]

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Roost.com launches in Denver with every home for sale!

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Announcement, Features

Attention homebuyers in the mile high city. You can now search for all homes for sale in the Denver Metro area in one place. Roost.com. Roost.com, through strategic relationships with local real estate brokers and the MLS provides consumers up-to-date and comprehensive access to all area MLS listings, For Sale by Owner listings and New [...]

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Roost.com launches in Miami

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Announcement

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 [...]

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Roost launches Alerts, personalization, neighborhood and school district enhancements

May 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Announcement, Features

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 [...]

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Roost Real Estate Search Launches in Greater Tampa!

May 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Features

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 [...]

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Interview with Drew Izzo of Roost.com

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments · General

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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Online Marketing - let’s share some learnings

May 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Real Estate Marketing

Allow me to introduce myself I’ve been around the online marketing block a few times. And, I’d like to share some of what I’ve learned over the years to help you, our broker partners make the most of their online marketing investments.
Let’s create some dialogue through this forum over the coming months. I’ll [...]

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Roost Appoints Drew Izzo as Chief Marketing Officer

May 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Announcement

Consumer Technology Marketing Veteran Joins Real Estate Search Platform
To Drive Traffic Through Integrated, Viral Campaigns

SAN FRANCISCO – May 14, 2008 – Roost, the most comprehensive search engine for homes, has appointed Drew Izzo as Chief Marketing Officer. Izzo brings more than 15 years of experience in designing and implementing creative, integrated marketing campaigns [...]

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