Online real estate news service AgentNews has been recognized with the Clareity Award for Real Estate Information Excellence by Minneapolis-based Clareity Consulting, Ltd. The award recognizes companies who have demonstrated superior efforts to create innovative technology, products, providing services, or otherwise advancing the real estate industry.
AgentNews is the only online real estate publication with an emphasis on the ultimate movers and shakers in the real estate industry: the consumers. Keeping in mind that homebuyers are a powerful force in our economy AgentNews' priority is to deliver timely, informative, and above all, useful stories to readers. With that in mind, the site brings readers a mix of the entertaining, eye-opening, and practical: topics such as "Are Home Inspections Really Necessary?"; "Energy-Efficient Homes"; "Should You Stop Marketing Your Home During the Holidays?"; and an ongoing series on America's cities, including America's safest cities and America's best cities for women. For armchair travelers, AgentNews delivers regular community profiles of such destinations as Boca Raton, Fla.; Boston's Back Bay; Georgetown, Washington, D.C.; Highland Park in Dallas; and Beaver Creek, Colo.
In addition, AgentNews delivers for real estate professionals timely industry news, profiles of top industry leaders, and news on the technology transforming the homebuying process for consumers and agents alike. AgentNews is at the forefront with the latest news, trends, opinions, and advice from top industry movers and shakers such as John Tuccillo, economic advisor to the National Association of Realtors; Stuart Wolff, developer of Realtor.com; and Robert Moles, CEO of Century 21, among others. With the advent of technology and especially the Internet, the real estate industry has been blindsided by numerous changes from every angle including the increasingly strong consumer voice and new marketing strategies in which the Internet plays center-stage. The latest technological developments are profiled on AgentNews, giving agents the jump on easy-to-integrate hardware, software, and peripherals such as digital cameras. Agent opinion polls ask pertinent questions, such as "Should Agents do Away with Open Houses?"
As part of the ongoing evolution in technology, beginning Friday, Feb. 13, AgentNews will be a featured section within RealTimes, a comprehensive news site that incorporates timely and informative reports not only for consumers, but also for real estate professionals. AgentNews will continue to present the concerns of real estate professionals as they navigate their way between old business models and new ideas of who and what the industry should be.
Clareity Consulting's services include relationship development; Internet/Intranet strategies; product and content design; property centric system engineering association & MLS consulting; business and product brokerage; executive personnel services; competitive market research; professional representation business opportunity forecasting; emerging technologies evaluation; and content acquisition and counseling. Clareity founders Gregg Larson, Ira Luntz, and W.B. Freeman, three of America's recognized leaders in the field of real estate information (REI) servicing, have combined their 50 years of experience that spans every aspect of the business.
Published: February 12, 1998
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