what are the best real estate sites on the internets based on (user
interface, design, value added features, content)

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Request for Question Clarification by tisme-ga on 24 Nov 2002 16:58 PST

Are you looking for a research's opinion on this question? Also are
you looking for a list for each of the catergories you have listed
above, or a one list that rates the real estate sites based on all of
the above catergories?

tisme-ga

There are several ratings of real estate sites on the Internet.

Among them are the following:

Total Real Estate's
The Top 100 Best Real Estate Websites displays website rankings based
on real-time traffic count.
http://www.totalrealestatesolutions.com/directory/top100best.cfm

Here are the top 10 from that list:

1 Affordable Housing Online 
http://www.affordablehousingonline.com
2 HomeSalez.com
http://www.homesalez.com
  3 RealEstateRepo.com
http://www.RealEstateRepo.com
  4 NeoRealEstate.com - Southern CA Residential and Commercial
Properties
http://www.neorealestate.com
  5 Design online with David Childers National Award winning Landscape
Architect.
http://www.signaturelandscapes.com
  6 Total Real Estate Solutions 
http://www.totalrealestatesolutions.com
  7 Swedish real estate classifieds 
http://www.ny-bostad.se/
  8 property,for sale by owner,overseas 
http://www.overseasrealestate.co.uk
  9 Your Real Estate for Sale.com 
http://www.yourrealestateforsale.com
  10 Real Estate Traffic
http://www.realestatetraffic.com
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In Yahoo! Internet Life's  annual look at the "Best
Homebuying Sites." Realty Times is featured throughout the report,
winning a Gold Star Site award for "Best Real Estate News" and kudos
for its new local Market Conditions Report™.

MSN HomeAdvisor wins both "Best Overall" and "Best Buyer Tutorials,"

Best Apartment Rentals" honors go to Homestore 

Improvenet.com continues its reign as "Best Fixer-upper Resource" 

 MonsterMoving.com as "Best Relocation Help" 

Newhomesource.com gets "Best New Home Listings" with over 200,000 new
property listings

http://realtytimes.com/rtnews/rtcpages/20020213_yhoaward.htm
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Most popular real estate sites by HomePopular:
http://housereal.com/top100/
HomePopular measure in realtime the site audience of Home & Garden and
Mortgage & Real Estate sites.
Here are the top 10 from their list:

1 RealHomeGuide

2 HouseReal

3 HomePopular

4 Apartment Renting - Free National Search

5 HomeSalez.com 
6 NoFeeListing.com

7 Private For Sale.com
8 Commercial Real Estate Directory
9 Pro Buyer Associates of Nantucket
10 Neo Real Estate

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Request for Answer Clarification by itsmechang-ga on 24 Nov 2002 18:09 PST

How much traffic is important too, but I was hoping to get an "retail
estate industry" opinion on what are best sites eg sites that have won
awards for design, content, service etc. I was hoping not to just get
USA based sites, but aslo sites from all over the world.

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Clarification of Answer by nellie_bly-ga on 24 Nov 2002 22:32 PST

Greetings-

Perhaps you did not notice when you visited the source page
http://realtytimes.com/rtnews/rtcpages/20020213_yhoaward.htm  that the
top sites  "...once were determined by which had the most listings.
Now, the criteria has changed to which provides the best homebuying
information, resources, advice and tools to consumers.

The first list includes two international sites in the first 10 and
there are more in the full listing at the site.

  7 Swedish real estate classifieds  
http://www.ny-bostad.se/ 
  8 property,for sale by owner,overseas  
http://www.overseasrealestate.co.uk 

I have not found a listing of sites meeting your specific criteria. 
However, one might assume that popular sites are "user friendly" and
supply useful information.

Here are some additional listings of "top" sites:

"On a weekly basis, The Real Estate Ring selects a web presentation
that best demonstrates high intensity graphics design, skilled
presentation programming, and top quality marketing savvy."
http://www.therealestatering.com/The_Real_Estate_Ring_com/Assets/Html/Core/winners.htm


"The Diamond Award recognizes outstanding web sites by Realtors and
Real Estate Agents"
http://www.geeroy.com/geeroy/award.htm

International Real Estate Digest
"Prime Location Spotlight"
http://www.ired.com/honors/allprime.htm
A listing of "prime" real estate sites around the world

Real Estate Pro's Top 100 Sites
These are the top 100 real estate sites voted most popular by the
consumer.
http://wwww.realestatepros.org/top100/index.html

Each month, The Real Estate Library reviews over 1000 Web Sites, and
chooses 10. "These sites all have information essential to the real
estate community."
http://www.relibrary.com/top_ten/


Another top 100 list, but again by number of hits "measures the
"minute-to-minute" visitor popularity"
http://www.realestateabc.com/100/Default.htm
and International
http://realestateabc.com/top100/top100.asp?Cat=3

And yet another "traffic" list:
http://www.realestateabc.com/traffic/index.htm

You can view  portfolios of award winning web sites at the sites of
some website designers:
at http://www.realtyhomesites.com/
http://expertsites.com/gallery.htm



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