condo.com Adds Sales and Rental Data

condo.com, a US portal and marketplace for condominiums, has announced that it has added enhanced past sales and rental data for over 3,500 property listings.
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fizber.com Introduces Drive Scores

Last week propertyportalwatch.com reported on the increasing popularity of Walk Score, which determines the walkability of any US address. This week we’ve had wind of another scoring system, this time for cars – a Drive Score.

US For Sale By Owner (FSBO) portal fizber.com has added Drive Score to their home listings. Similar to Walk Score, Drive Score shows a map of what establishments are in a property’s neighborhood and calculates a Drive Score based on the number of places within a convenient driving distance. The greater number of businesses nearby, the higher the Drive Score. This option will enable home buyers make searches with much more confidence.

Walk Score might be more environmentally friendly, and popular in high density cities, but not all homes are located in an area where the local amenities are within walking distance. Antony Fizber, CEO of Fizber.com, says that affordable homes in more secluded – and yet still desirable – areas were being overlooked.

“The fact is, some homes are simply located in an area where restaurants, libraries, grocery stores, hospitals and other businesses are easier to get to by car,” says Mr. Fizber. “Less than a mile may be a comfortable walk for a New Yorker, but for a Los Angeles resident, they may have to cross a freeway on foot in that mile, which is not convenient at all. With Drive Score, buyers can see how close establishments are by car…and more than a mile away can still be a simple five or ten minute drive. It is really very important for home buyers to be aware of nearby infrastructure to make their choice. I assume that there aren’t many people who would like to live near airport or railway taking into consideration the noise produced. Meanwhile these homes might be pretty interesting for people who travel a lot as they will definitely save money on getting to the airport or railway station.”

Drive Score also shows hospitals, gas stations, airports, train stations and a variety of shopping stores located within a particular neighborhood. Directions are available by clicking on any icon shown on the Google map. Drive Scores are included on every home listing page. When making a search, homebuyers can also switch off Drive Score parameters they don’t need, so they will get Drive Score results adjusted to their requirements.

Drive Score seems to be the simply the latest in a long line of neighbourhood applications.

fizber.com Partners With condo.com

For sale by owner real estate search engine fizber.com has announced a partnership with condo.com, the world’s largest condo marketplace.

The partnership will let buyers visiting US based fizber.com search for the latest condo listings from condo.com in their local markets and across the country.

fizber.com offers the largest national database of for sale by owner (FSBO), pre-foreclosure, foreclosure, and new home construction properties, with more than 2 million properties across the country. It hosts over 1 million unique monthly visitors. The site offers to list for-sale properties on a multiple listing service for a flat fee, with properties submitted to other property search engines for an additional fee.

condo.com has over 600,000 listings for sale and for rent in the United States and 70 countries and receives over 1 million visitors monthly.

“This new relationship will make it easier for homebuyers, investors and real estate agents and brokers to search and view condo properties on our site,” said Julia Foster, fizber.com VP of Marketing.

Matt Pluznick, VP of Strategic Development for condo.com, added, “This exciting new partnership with fizber.com allows condo.com to reach a brand-new audience of over 1 million potential customers through the seamless distribution of our condo listings to the fizber.com site. This new audience combined with our current condo.com community of over 1 million visitors monthly – and growing – supports our mission to be a huge and valuable resource to the multi-family real estate industry making this partnership ideal.”

In November condo.com announced a partnership with themovechannel.com, which gave condo.com users access to over 10,000+ international properties located in Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Bulgaria, France, Cyprus, England, Italy and more.