We’ve moved! HomeGain has officially moved its headquarters to a new office in Emeryville.  After 10 years in the same office building, HomeGain decided it needed a change of scenery.

Located at 6001 Shellmound Street, on the 5th floor, HomeGain has a beautiful 360 degree view of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, San Francisco and the bay, and the Berkeley/Oakland hills.

Special thanks to Jim Ridley and his team, and everyone at HomeGain who helped make the move a smooth and successful transition!

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Happy 2nd anniversary to the HomeGain Real Estate Blog!

Over the past two years, the HomeGain Blog has won awards and been recognized by organizations including WebAwards (Web Marketing Association), FrogPond, Inman News, and World Wide Web Awards, as well as hundreds of supporting real estate bloggers, Realtors, real estate organizations and publications, and members of the press.

We’d like to thank everyone for their continued support, interaction and loyalty.

Two leaders in the real estate industry, Louis Cammarosano, General Manager at HomeGain and Sami Inkinen, Co-Founder & CEO at Trulia, met at Inman Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2009 to debate the best way to create value online.

Cammarosano pointed that HomeGain has a central focus on the agent and spoke of the HomeGain model that has content and platforms designed to connect buyers and sellers to real estate agents.

Trulia’s Inkinen, suggested that Trulia may have more of a central focus on consumers.

Listen to Louis Cammarosano and Sami Inkinen duel their sides about home listings, leads and vision:

What’s the Ideal Online Real Estate Business Model?

HomeGain.com and the HomeGain Real Estate Blog both have won the Standard of Excellence Award for website development in the Real Estate category in 2009.

HomeGain.com and the HomeGain Blog received scores that were above average in the overall Industry and against other WebAward.org, aka Web Marketing Association, entries. Points were awarded using the following criteria: Design, Innovation, Content, Technology, Interactivity, Copywriting, Ease of use.

WebAward Judges comments included:

“The HomeGain.com site design is open, clean and inviting. The method for division of site services is excellent. This makes it quite easy for the site visitor to select their path.”

“The best selling point for the HomeGain.com site is the wealth of content. Content aggregation is used well throughout the site. “

“Nice blog which follows many best practice elements, good use of photography, compelling elements for the blog visitor to interact with.”

“HomeGain Blog is focused on Real Estate and has attention grabbing posts — content is king!”

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Last week we met with Realtor® survey respondents and members of the press to discuss the results of the Q3 Home Prices Survey of Realtors on HomeGain Radio.

If you didn’t have a chance to attend, listen to it here:

A Taste of HomeGain Realtor Member Participant Comments:

Mitch Ribak in Florida - “The last 3 months look like home prices are stabilizing, although a significant number of homes are still overpriced, and inventory is shrinking from 8,000 to about 4,500 in the Melbourne area.”

Gary Belhumeur in Colorado - “REO properities were dragging down the Denver market. As banks slowly release them, it’s helping stabilize things.”

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