Focus on real estate portals targets most qualified audience
AUSTIN, Texas – December 2, 2003 – Builder Homesite, Inc., the consortium of America’s top home builders, has announced the renewal and expansion to a nationwide distribution agreement to be the exclusive new home listings provider for the online real estate site, HomeGain (www.homegain.com).
“Builder Homesite has been a great partner over the past two years,” said Bradley Inman, CEO of HomeGain, “and we are very excited about expanding our relationship.” Builder Homesite will provide listings from its own site, NewHomeSource, which includes new home data in over 150 markets nationwide, representing nearly 5,000 new home communities.
Focus on results
The agreement with HomeGain highlights Builder Homesite’s commitment to providing the most qualified traffic for its builders. “Partnering with leading real estate-focused sites means exposure to serious home buyers, and results in higher lead conversion and more cost-effective marketing for all our builders,” said Melissa Morman, COO of Builder Homesite.
About HomeGain
HomeGain is the largest provider of customized services to consumers using the Internet to sell or buy a home. Its Agent Evaluator feature is the only personalized referral service that matches consumers with the best local real estate agent from a nationwide network of more than 68,000 real estate professionals. Users can also access a full range of home buying and selling tools, services and content to research home listings, value a property, prepare a home for sale, secure a loan, arrange a move, or make home improvements. More than 3.2 million consumers have registered at the HomeGain Web site www.homegain.com since its inception in 1999. HomeGain is a licensed real estate broker. State license information is available at https://homegain.com/broker.
About Builder Homesite, Inc. and NewHomeSource.com
Founded in Austin, TX in 2000 by a consortium of 32 of the nation’s largest homebuilders, Builder Homesite, Inc. (BHI) represents over 225,000 new home sales annually. BHI’s mission is to offer improved technology and marketing solutions for the new home industry. The first product by Builder Homesite is NewHomeSource.com, a consumer website offering the most comprehensive information and selection of new homes available on the Internet. Because of the extensive distribution network, more and more builders are making BHI their entry point into the Internet. By providing data to New Home Source, builders can also participate in BHI online partner channels, including Yahoo, eBay, CitySearch, HomeGain, newspaper and realtor websites.
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