DotHomes.com Adds RealtyTrac Foreclosure Properties to Search Database
Links Home Seekers Directly to RealtyTrac’s National Foreclosure Listings
London, 17 March 2008: DotHomes.com (DotHomes), the real estate search engine,
today announced the integration of foreclosure data into its comprehensive
index of U.S. residential for sale properties. Beginning today,
consumers have the ability to query the site’s single search box to
quickly search over and click through to foreclosed home listings on
RealtyTrac (www.RealtyTrac.com), the leading nationwide online
foreclosure marketplace.
The DotHomes.com search findings link users to more than 400,000
RealtyTrac foreclosure listings from nearly 2,500 counties across the
country. Alongside the RealtyTrac listings, DotHomes.com also provides
house hunters with access to more than one million results summaries
that link through to property details on listing broker Websites.
Typical user queries will now yield foreclosure bargains integrated
within the DotHomes.com search results. Users also have the option to
refine their queries by keyword to show only relevant foreclosure
listings.
“The time has never been better for home buyers and real estate
investors to search and purchase a foreclosure property,” said James
J. Sacaccio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac. “Now consumers
have the ability to easily search for foreclosure properties on
DotHomes. We are excited about the new DotHomes and RealtyTrac
partnership and look forward to building a successful business
relationship.”
Foreclosure activity in the United States is growing so fast that
in some states the number of foreclosure filings each month is greater
than the number of homes sold during the month. Home seekers and
investors can benefit from RealtyTrac’s extensive foreclosure database
by easily searching for and purchasing a foreclosure property.
“DotHomes is designed to give buyers the easiest and most
transparent online property search tool,” said Artemi Krymski,
co-founder of DotHomes. “Our goal is to link users directly to the
original home listings, wherever they are found all the way across the
Web, so that these users can have the richest and broadest array of
information at their fingertips.”
In addition to foreclosure properties, DotHomes provides a simple
search interface over the listings on thousands of listing
broker/agent Websites. The site’s one-box search methodology allows
unprecedented flexibility in terms of the queries consumers can enter
into the search box, for example, “foreclosure in Detroit, MI, with 3
bedrooms and 1 bathroom for under $50K.” A custom relevancy mechanism
maximizes the accuracy of the results. Then, the unique DotHomes.com
search experience takes users directly to the original listing sources
online.
DotHomes.com is the property of BytePlay Ltd., which is funded by
three of Europe’s leading early-stage venture capital firms: The
Accelerator Group, backers of GlassesDirect and lastminute; Arts
Alliance, backers of LOVEFiLM, lastminute and propertyfinder; and
Samos Investments, which funded the online betting exchange Betfair.
About RealtyTrac Inc.
Ranked as the third largest real estate site by MediaMetrix and
No. 53 on Inc. magazine’s 2006 Inc. 500 list of the nation’s
fastest-growing private companies, RealtyTrac Inc.
(www.realtytrac.com), is the leading online marketplace for
foreclosure properties, providing all the resources that home seekers,
investors and real estate agents need to locate, evaluate and buy
properties below market value.
Founded in 1996, RealtyTrac publishes the largest and most
comprehensive national database of pre-foreclosure, foreclosure, For
Sale By Owner, resale and new construction properties, with more than
1 million properties across the country, property reports,
productivity tools and extensive professional resources. RealtyTrac
hosts nearly 3 million unique visitors monthly and has been chosen to
supply foreclosure data to MSN Real Estate, Yahoo! Real Estate and The
Wall Street Journal’s Real Estate Journal. For more information, visit
www.realtytrac.com.
About BytePlay
BytePlay is a London-based search technology company. It was
founded in May 2006 by Artemi Krymski and Douglas de Jager, two young
alumni of Europe’s leading technology university, Imperial College
London. BytePlay focuses on the development of parsing technologies
which characterize typed or vertical search. DotHomes is the company’s
first consumer-facing product. In June 2007, Krymski was selected by
Business Week as one of Europe’s Young Entrepreneurs 2007. In July
2007, DotHomes was picked out by The Guardian newspaper as one of its
Top 10 dotcoms to watch. In November 2007, Esquire magazine
short-listed DotHomes as Best New Idea at its Man at the Top Awards
2007 - along with Waitrose, Fashion Academy and Yotel.
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