IDXCentral.com Offers Foreclosure Searches

For anyone who was not already aware, many of the MLS’s we get data from now offer Foreclosure and Short Sale data in their IDX feeds. As a result we have added the ability for visitors to your website to search for property based on this new criteria. If this criteria has been added to your IDX solution you will see the new search options on your Search Properties form.

You may want to add a new link to your Navigation or promote the fact that visitors can now search for foreclosures on your website. Another strategy may be to add a page on your site specific to foreclosures and/or create a quick search form that will allow visitors to start searching from there (the latter will take some programming knowledge or you can hire us to help). Here are a couple examples: Coldwell Banker Grass Roots Realty and TopSpaces.com.

Many buyers and investors are looking to search for foreclosures and short sales due to their perception that these will offer them great deals. You may also want to look at anyone who has signed up for listing notifications of these types of properties and notify them of properties that are not necessarily foreclosures but simply well priced homes.

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