{"id":3962,"date":"2009-12-10T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/athomeshuntsville.com\/realestate\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2009-12-15T23:34:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T23:34:59","slug":"virtual-huntsville-real-estate-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athomeshuntsville.com\/realestate\/2009\/12\/10\/virtual-huntsville-real-estate-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Virtual Real Estate Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is a Virtual Office Website (VOW)?<\/h2>\n<p>Basically  a <strong>Real Estate Virtual Office Website<\/strong> is an online place of business, where real estate brokers and their agents may work directly with  buyers and sellers as if they were physically present in their own<strong> brick and mortar  office<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In effect a <strong>Huntsville Real Estate <\/strong>VOW will be a very different website  when compared with current IDX based public sites. With the Virtual Office, consumers will  be able to essentially access online all non-confidential information within the  local\u00a0MLS through their own real estate professional&#8217;s web  services.<\/p>\n<h2>Why\u00a0VOW&#8217;s are\u00a0important to you as a  consumer?<\/h2>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong current public  real estate websites provide lots of useful information, however they fall very  short when it comes to\u00a0allowing buyers and sellers\u00a0access to the deep levels of  information that are important for any real estate transaction. Thus to learn  about comparable market analysis (CMA),\u00a0days on market (DOM), price changes, tax  information, sold history, and other important types of information; today&#8217;s  consumers typically need to contact their real estate agent to extract this  information for them.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Real Estate Virtual Office<\/strong> thus presents some new\u00a0consumer engagement options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clients will be able to browse and  establish notifications for recently <strong>SOLD <\/strong>homes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Clients and their Agents can leave blog comment remarks about specific\u00a0listings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Agent CMA Estimates may be visible on some listings and automated on others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> And many more new features with real-time chat are all possible with the  VOW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Local VOW News and Happenings<\/h2>\n<p>The North Alabama  Multiple Listing Service (NALMLS), as required by the <a title=\"DOJ NAR VOW Settlement\" rel=\"external nofollow\" href=\"\/\/www.realtor.org\/law_and_policy\/doj\/nar_doj\" target=\"_blank\">2008 Department of Justice  and National Association of Realtors (NAR) settlement<\/a>, has already begun  providing additional information within their feeds for use within VOW  environments and other VOW related feed changes are currently  underway.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover as Real Estate Technology Leaders, <strong>The @Homes  Realty Group <\/strong>have their own VOW currently under construction at <a title=\"@Homes Realty Virtual Office\" href=\"\/\/athomesrealty.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.atHomesRealty.com<\/a> We  of course are working hard on this effort that will have many new customer and client features and we look forward to launching this  additional consumer centric website in the coming months, so stay tuned for updates.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a current buyer or seller in the  <strong>Huntsville\u00a0Real Estate <\/strong>market and would like to know more about  our current and upcoming VOW services just drop us an <a href=\"mailto:elizabeth@athomesrealty.com\">email<\/a> or give us\u00a0call at  256-263-4241 and we will be happy to assist in anyway we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Virtual Office Website (VOW)? Basically a Real Estate Virtual Office Website is an online place of business, where real estate brokers and their agents may work directly with buyers and sellers as if they were physically present in their own brick and mortar office. 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