Blogging For Boston Real Estate Agents

By Anthony Longo 22 12 2008

What other way to best find our newest team member that to “BLOG” for them?

So here it is…we are blogging for Boston Real Estate Agents to join our team.  Well, actually we are looking for 1 SUPERSTAR, rock-the-house, data soaking, business minded, super organized, mega-social, real estate agent who wants to be apart of the fastest growing Boston real estate company.

So what does it take to become one of the top real estate buyers brokers in Boston?

1. Passion: We want the most passionate individuals who love real estate, technology and urban living.

2. Savvy: You are way ahead of the curve, understand that the traditional model is changing and you have already started exploring new initiatives like blogging and other web 2.0 marketing tactics.

3. Entrepreneur: You are self-motivated. You are a risk taker. You want to shoot for the stars and be involved in something special.

What else is involved and what will CondoDomain offer me?

Well, for starters we are a web-based buyers brokerage so we only work with buyer looking to buy in downtown Boston.  This means (and we will help you) you need to know every downtown neighborhood better than every other Boston real estate agent!  Know all the major new construction developments better than every other Boston real estate agent.  And love to pull and analyze sales data better than every other Boston real estate agent!  See where we are going here.  We simply push to be the very best at what we do - help people find and purchase their new Boston condo.

CondoDomain Boston is located at 319 A Street in the Fort Point Channel neighborhood in an AWESOME LOFT.  We operate our shop out of a huge open loft space that allows creative energy, ideas and a very exciting and fun work environment to flow opening (a huge part of our company business model).   Many who have walked through the space say that we operate like an early stage dot-com start-up company - and  that is exactly how it is.

Our company, being a web-based brokerage operates online.  Our entire marketing platform generates thousands of buy-side leads per month.  These leads need to be responded too immediately, sorted, managed and eventually brought out to tour properties.  (So you gotta be a die-hard blackberry or iPhone user.)

Oh…one more thing. Our company has a very different business model.  We refund a large portion of our real estate commission back to our clients.   I know, sounds crazy but we have a really good reason for it.  Learn more about our commission refund business model here, here, don’t forget to miss the post where we gave back $43,000 to our $2M One Charles Condominium buyer.

We keep it pretty simple: If you like a loud, fun, very active but professional work environment, like working in a team environment and consider yourself passionate, savvy and entrepreneur-like, give us a shout –**– Facebook me, Twitter me, Txt me, Email me or I guess you can call me too - 617.617.7704.

Meet Our Corporate & Boston Team

Meet Some Of Our Clients

See our Facebook Recruiting Post

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Redfin goes Mainstream, Zillow surrenders, Zip Beefs Up & CondoDomain Expands

By Anthony Longo 6 11 2008

Whoa! What is going on out there in this real estate world this month?  Hot off the press today some major movement in the discount real estate brokerage business, & mainstream real estate media verticals.

Redfin - which announced a few weeks ago to layoff a big % of their staff has rolled out another adjustment to their offering plan for buyers and sellers in the 8 markets that they serve.  Today they announce: Redfin Upgrades Online Brokerage Service on their very nicely new fresh designed website.  Great work guys.  Looking sharp!

Zillow - (via the Sellius Blog and Inman News ) announced that the real estate media company Zillow has chosen to give up all but two of its state real estate broker licenses as a cost cutting measure. (It kept Washington and Texas). On October 17, 2008, Zillow CEO Rich Barton publicly announced the layoff of 25% of its workforce.)

Zip Realty - Zip Realty adds 551 real estate agents in an aggressive recruting effort and boosts sales.  ZipRealty Inc. managed to trim third-quarter losses to $1.7 million as the company added 551 agents and took advantage of continued turnover of foreclosed properties to achieve double-digit growth in sales and revenue from a year ago.

From the street level it looks like all these major movements to innovate this stale traditional industry is taking a beating because of nationwide market declines.  In short, Redfin tacks on is giving less commission rebates back but offering up more services and dedicated time to their clients.  Zip is taking the old old OLD tactic of add more agents and get more deals - yikes.   And Zillow who really stands separate from the pack as an ad based business is a clear impression that there is less $$$ being spent in the industry at this current time.  Will all these companies survive … absolutely, and we are a big fan of all of them.

CondoDomain.com - (A little “self love”) -  Little’ole CondoDomain.com still sits quiet in the pack (even though we are yelling as loud as we can)  on the sidelines.  Bootstrapped to the max, operating in 4 markets (soon to be 6 this week), our mini-Redfin web-based buyers brokerage business model is trending in the opposite direction.  Possiblly hte markets we are in?  Maybe our cheap flimzy business cards and marketing material?  Who knows, but we are excited to be growing in a time like this.  A little birdie told me that San Diego & Washington DC will have a CondoDomain website & buyers brokerage business model there veryyyyyy soon.



Real Estate Developers Spruce Up Your Project

By Anthony Longo 31 10 2008

(Photo above:  Museum Tower, Dallas TX)

Calling all Real Estate Developers and Sales & Marketing firms:  Spruce up your new condo development on the leading condominium website - CondoDomain.com.

We have done our very best job to keep our website up-to-date with the most current information and multi-media, but we can never do the job of your marketing team.

The marketing team just updated their project - Museum Tower - in Dallas, TX and it looks so much better than the job we did.  Check out the new gorgeous renderings and updated photos, and we are posting their video soon too!

Developers/Marketing Firms: Remember posting your condominium development on our website is 100% free. We take pride in having the most informative urban real estate website out there….so if you are on our site, please contact us to update it.  If you don’t see your new condo development on the site - please go ahead and add it for free!.

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