HomeGain is proud to announce that AgencyLogic has selected HomeGain’s home prices tool to offer to its single  property web site customers.  AgencyLogic is a division of Network Earth, a technology company founded in 1995 that specializes in web based software.

HomeGain’s home values tool is now available to AgencyLogic’s extensive network of customers to provide recent home prices, home values,  and valuations of comparable sales.

Stephen Fell, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Network Earth was quoted in this morning’s press release “We are committed to providing our single property website customers with best of breed solutions and HomeGain’s instant home values tool fits that bill.”

HomeGain’s home prices tool, the first such tool of its kind,  is available throughout the web including on The Washington Post, HomeFinder and USA Today.

You can download HomeGain’s instant home values tool, HomeGain’s Home Sale Maximizer tool and HomeGain’ tool bar here.

Louis Cammarosano

homegain.com

I started working with AgentView, formerly known as Source4Sellers, mid November 2006.  Since then much has changed with my business model and with AgentView.

My business grew from a fledgling concept to a full team model.  I had started the month before with HomeGain’s BuyerLink.  The traffic from BuyerLink helped build my faith in Internet marketing and build my lead database.  Even then, I knew that HomeGain was very interested in my success and building a true business partnership.

The AgentView product suite continues to develop and is now a full service ad-free solution which highlights and promotes the participating real estate agent.  When I first started with the product, the Source4Sellers solution contained an agent profile and a full CRM with built-in email campaigns.  Now AgentView is so very much more.  Some of the features include:

• Agent Profile
• Homes For Sale
• Home Values
• Agent Centric Blog
• Local Information
• Home Seller Tools

Agent Profile

The AgentView blog offers so much opportunity to help promote the area real estate agent and my Denver real estate website in an ad-free environment. This page is about the agent and their credentials.  The “Have a Real Estate Question for Brian?” is to the right of your contact information as a call to action.

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If a client asks you to list their house but tells you it was the scene of a gruesome murder or a suicide, or the house is haunted, are you required to disclose this information to prospective buyers? The short answer is maybe.

Material Facts

Most states have disclosure laws pertaining to property condition and latent defects. The legal standard requires a seller to disclose “material facts” known to the seller that may influence a buyer’s decision. Common examples are a history of termite infestation or major damage from natural events (floods). But when it comes to property that may have been the scene of a murder, suicide or even an AIDS related death, states are divided on the issue of disclosure. Courts have given no clear guidance either.

These psychologically impacted properties, defined as “stigmatized” by the National Association of Realtors, are harder to sell, if the particular fact or suspicion is disclosed, according to James E. Larsen, Ph.D. and Joseph W. Coleman, business professors at Wright State University.

Stigmatized Effect on House Sales

Larsen and Coleman did a study of more than 100 psychologically impacted houses. They found that they take 45 percent longer than comparable homes to sell, and price at an average of about 3 percent less. It is not surprising that many buyers will not buy a house where a gruesome crime or suicide has been committed.

At least 21 states have enacted laws, known as stigma disclosure statutes, concerning the (non)disclosure of psychological facts. In those states that have not enacted these statutes, there are no hard and fast rules about disclosing property stigmas. Continue reading this post

HomeGain is delighted to announce that Sherry Chris, President and CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, will be joining our already star studded cast of guest bloggers.

Sherry is a frequent speaker on major real estate industry panels, such as Inman Connect, Bloodhound Unchained, ReBlog Camps and REtechSouth to name just a few.

Sherry is an engaging personality and blogger as well as an adept user and evangelist of social media.

We should be receiving Sherry’s first post in a few days.

In the meantime you can follow Sherry on Twitter @BHGRE_Sherry

Louis Cammarosano

homegain.com

For all you HomeGain fans, you can now download a HomeGain toolbar to display on your favorite internet browser! It allows you to access the entire HomeGain site directly from your browser. You can track home values and home prices, find a Realtor and search homes for sale.

Here is what is looks like:

Get it on www.homegain.com or download it directly here.

You can also download a Home Sale Maximizer or Instant Home Values widget in our Web tools and widgets resource center.