BuyerBeacon.com; A New Way to Buy and Sell Real Estate

The home buying process can be frustrating. It can be even worse if you are trying to sell your home in the current marketplace. What if I told you that it doesn't have to be that way. What if all negotiations up to the point of sale could be done online! What if I added that this can all be done completely free!

In the current economy saving money is of utmost importance. A new website, www.buyerbeacon.com, offers home buyers and sellers a way to interact online saving them time and money. Questions can be answered quickly, negotiations can take place, buyers and sellers can make arrangements for viewings, all from the comfort of their home computers. Read below to find out how easy it is to get started.

First you have to create your profile. Signing up should take no more than 5 minutes. From the home page click the "Create Free Profile" button. You are taken to a registration page where you create a user name and password and specify what type of profile you would like to setup. Once you are done with registration and click the button for the next step an email is sent to your specified email address. You will need to access this email to activate your account. Once activated you are set to go! Yes, its that easy! Log in to www.buyerbeacon.com and get started! If you are a buyer specify the price range you are looking to view homes in, locations of interest, and specific desires for your dream home. Sellers list up to 15 homes completely free under your user name, tell potential buyers a little bit about yourself, and the best part.......search buyer profiles! That's right, for the first time ever the ball is in your court. You can search out and find a buyer for your home instead of waiting around for someone to find you!

The benefits of this site are endless. Lets talk about them in a bit more detail.

For buyers all you have to do is setup your account and sit back and wait for your dream home to come to you. If you want to search for homes you have the option, if you want to contact sellers you have the option, if you want to ignore sellers you have the option, you can add favorites, and ever search other buyers if you are both buying a new home and selling your old home. At Buyer Beacon we want to make your life easier and your home buying experience more enjoyable!

For sellers just being able to list your home completely free nowadays without any fees whatsoever is a benefit in itself! Completely free worldwide web exposure, it doesn't get any better than that! On top of it not only can you list one home you can list up to 15 at any one time completely free, how awesome is that! All of your listings are tied to your personal seller profile. What does that mean you ask? It means that you basically have your own listing web page built into www.buyerbeacon.com. A potential buyer browsing one of your listings can view your seller profile. Your seller profile tells them a bit about you to get them familiar with who they are dealing with (you can even add a picture), and they can see all of your other listings, this is especially great if you are a realtor (See sample seller profile on homepage). The best part is that you can take the initiative and search for buyers, contact buyers that match your listings, make plans for viewings, negotiate prices, etc. All of this is completely free to you!

Why add stress to your home sale or purchase. Make your life easier and create a profile on www.buyerbeacon.com. It takes only a few minutes to get started and you wont be disappointed!

Sell Your Home Fast and Free This Holiday Season!!!

As the United States economy teeters on the edge of collapse and the housing market continues its downward slide home sellers are in need of help. As we move into the Holiday Season Buyer Beacon has come to the rescue. Currently home sellers are having a hard time trying to sell their home whether it be through a realtor or by owner. A home may stay on the market for months and even possibly over a year. The longer your home is on the market the higher the costs associated with selling your home. Not only is your home losing market value all the while as it sits on the market, you also have to pay marketing costs if you're selling by owner and if you're using a realtor in a declining market be ready to recover little to no profit from the sale of your home. Buyer Beacon is here to change that and add a little holiday cheer in such a bleak time. BuyerBeacon.com is your source to advertise you home for absolutely free. Thats right you can post an advertisement for your home, include pictures of your home, and even give potential buyers a little bit of info on yourself so they know who they are dealing with. Once you create your listing profile, which only takes a few minutes tops, you can search through buyer profiles on the website to see if you can match your home with a buyer looking in your area. Buyerbeacon.com is the first website of its kind to put both buyers and sellers together and let them interact to find their match. This matchmaking website aims to be the revolution in the online real estate marketplace. You might ask why we offer a free service or how we make any money? Well thats easy to explain, we offer a free service to you because there isnt one currently out there for both buyers and sellers, an inefficiency in the online real estate market at its finest. We want buyers and sellers to have a free avenue to buy or sell their home thats easy to use and makes sense. I mean why wouldnt you post your home, it doesnt cost you a dime and it provides additional nationwide exposure for your home. And dont worry about us we make money through ads on our website, in that way we can provide you a totally free website and provide you all of the resources you need to help buy or sell your home. Visit our resources page to find tons of real estate tips and tools. Visit www.buyerbeacon.com today and sell your home for free. From the Buyer Beacon family to yours we wish you the best of luck in the sale or purchase of your home and a very happy New Year!

BuyerBeacon.com Official Press Release

Its official, BuyerBeacon.com has gone nationwide! Here is a link to the Official buyerbeacon.com press release:
Buyerbeacon.com Press Release

Keep watching the News section of BuyerBeacon.com as we update the site with the newest press releases and articles regrading our new real estate social networking website!

BuyerBeacon.com Sets The Stage for Real Estate 2.0!

Buyerbeacon.com is officially open for business! Buyerbeacon.com is a social networking website that puts home buyers and sellers together on the same website and allows them to interact to find their perfect match. Both buyers and sellers can upload a profile picture, tell a little bit about their homebuying needs or why they are looking to sell their home. For the first time ever in the online real estate marketplace home sellers can pursue willing home buyers in their area! Buyerbeacon.com takes advantage of social networking to start a new, simple, and cheap way for people to buy and sell homes and property! We are in a true buyers market and buyers can take advantage of the market right now and use the site to describe exactly what they want in a home and sit back and wait for their desired home to come to them!!! For home sellers it can be a tough time to find a buyer, but buyerbeacon.com offers sellers the chance to take the initiative and pursue buyers. Not to mention buyerbeacon.com has a built in listing management tool so that sellers can add and manage additional listings. Its time to make the real estate market work for you!!! If you're a buyer pick and choose the homes you want to pursue, make offers via email, and save your time and money!!! For sellers find the perfect buyer for your home fast and free!!! Check out www.buyerbeacon.com we are "Your Official Real Estate Matchmaker!"

We are now open for business!!! Keep an eye on the site as we grow and continue to add enhancements to www.buyerbeacon.com to make your home buying or selling experience as easy as possible!!!

Narrow Down Your Home Search and Save Time & Money!

As the roll out date approaches we are more excited than ever to highlight some of the many benefits that buyerbeacon.com has to offer. Lets start with Buyers. Right now buyers can pick and choose from the countless homes on the market for sale, but with so many homes to view and choose from, where do you start? Well you can drive around all day grabbing home flyers or looking through real estate guides, which takes time and money (especially with gas prices on the rise), or you can visit buyerbeacon.com. At buyerbeacon.com you can enter search criteria based on exactly what you are looking for in a home and let sellers that match your profile contact you! You might ask how they will know to contact you? Well its quite simple really, because as soon as you specify what you're looking for in a perfect home the buyerbeacon.com database filters through all of our homes for sale, finds homes that match your profile, and sends the sellers of your matching homes an email notifying them that you have signed up! It shouldn't be long after that you should have new mail in you profile inbox from tons of matching homes/sellers in your desired location. So the work of narrowing down your home search is done, now all you have to do is browse the profiles and pictures from matching sellers, setup an appointment to view the homes you are interested in via email, and you can even negotiate and make offers via email. Then once you are ready to buy your new home check out our Resources page to find all the services you need to close the deal. Why stress over the home buying process, its supposed to be an enjoyable and exciting experience. Give buyerbeacon.com a try, its free, its easy to use, and you can have a profile created in a matter of minutes! Take the initiative and save your time and money. Create a FREE profile at buyerbeacon.com today!

Buyerbeacon.com is set to rollout in mid-July 2008!

Buyerbeacon.com set to kickoff in July 2008!!!

Well its been almost a year since we began development of buyerbeacon.com and we are putting the finishing touches on the site as we speak. The official rollout of the site is set for July 2008!!! If you havent had a chance to look at the site yet check us out at buyerbeacon.com. The basic idea behind the site is to create a virtual marketplace for buying and selling real estate. Using the concept of social networking buyerbeacon.com allows not only sellers to list their homes as seen in traditional real estate websites it also allows home buyers to create a personal profile which describes what type of homes they are looking to buy. In this way a seller is able to actively search for a buyer for their home and a homebuyer can sit back and wait until a seller contacts them or can search home listings just as they would on a traditional real estate website. The site also give realtors a great advantage in the real estate market place because they can create a seller profile, create and manage multiple listings, and can also search and contact possible buyers that match their listings. The site is a two way street for buyers and sellers and the future of real estate marketing. Co-founder, Peter Fabbri describes the site, "Buyer Beacon is a virtual real estate marketplace thats as easy to use as facebook or myspace!" He goes on to state, "We are a social networking real estate website designed for the next generation of home buyers and sellers." Buyer Beacon is set to rollout in July 2008. Check us out at buyerbeacon.com!

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays from the staff at BuyerBeacon.com!!!! Its been an exciting year for us. Our site started out as an idea just over a year ago and through a lot of hard work, dedication, and preserverence we are very close to opening our site to the real estate marketplace. We are very excited!!!! The site is set to roll out in July, 2008 and will be a great way for homebuyers and sellers to start out the new year! Our site is on the cutting edge of real estate marketing and will offer a never before seen way to sell or buy your perfect home! We'll keep you updated as we move closer to the rollout date, but in the meantime happy holidays to you and yours from all of us at buyerbeacon.com!!!

Affordable Homes in Every State

By Maya Roney Wed Sep 26, 8:08 AM ET
In Greenwich, Conn., Boston, and many parts of California, a four-bedroom house can easily set you back more than $1 million, while in parts of Texas and in the Midwest, a similar house can be had for just over $100,000. But you knew that already. It's no secret that homes in ritzy Beverly Hills cost 10 times more than comparable houses in the military community of Killeen, Tex. The question is: How much do you really need to pay for the lifestyle you want? It might be less than you originally thought. According to Coldwell Banker's 2007 Home Price Comparison Index (HPCI), Beverly Hills is the most expensive housing market in the nation for the second year in a row, with the average price of a home sold through July, 2007, at $2.21 million. In Killeen -- the most affordable market in the U.S., according to the HPCI study -- a similar home sells for $136,725. Killeen is a city of about 100,000 located directly next to the Fort Hood army base, with a military-dependent economy. You won't find anything akin to Rodeo Drive here -- but you will find community events such as fairs, concerts, and high school football games; outdoor recreation like fishing and hunting; and a pervasive sense of patriotism.

A Different Sensibility
"When you drive through town, all the local establishments have got the stickers saying 'we support our troops' in the window," says Tom DeAngio, a Realtor and Killeen resident whose son will soon be deployed for his second tour of duty in Iraq. For nightlife, DeAngio says Henderson's Family Restaurant on East Avenue A is a popular choice.
The Coldwell Banker HPCI survey evaluates average selling prices in 317 U.S. markets for single-family houses of approximately 2,220 square feet with four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, a family room, and a two-car garage. The cumulative average sales price of these subject homes is $422,343 (higher than the National Association of Realtors' median home price of $218,200 for all existing homes sold in the U.S.).
Beverly Hills; Greenwich, Conn.; the California markets of La Jolla, Santa Monica, Palo Alto, Newport Beach, Santa Barbara, San Mateo, and San Francisco; and Boston comprise the top 10 most expensive markets in the country, all with average home prices of $1.38 million and up. In addition to Killeen, Minot, N.D.; Arlington and Fort Worth, Tex.; Canton, Ohio; Muncie, Ind.; Topeka and Wichita, Kan.; Tulsa, Okla.; and Grayling, Mich., make up the list of the most affordable housing markets.

Million-Dollar Differences
But affordable markets exist in just about every state -- even in California. The average 2007 sales price in Sacramento for one of Coldwell Banker's subject homes was just $380,625, making it the most affordable market in the state. In Connecticut, a home in West Hartford sells for an average of $365,000, and in Worcester, Mass., you can buy a four-bedroom home for around $286,000. California, Connecticut, and Massachusetts have the widest price variance between high- and low-end housing markets, with an over $1 million difference between the average home price in their most expensive and most affordable markets. But some states are affordable no matter where you look. In Idaho, the difference in sales price between the most expensive (Boise) and most affordable (Coeur d'Alene) markets was a mere $30.

Real Estate's a Local Business
Thinking about relocating? An area's affordability is important to consider when buying a home. Unaffordable areas may indicate that prices are too high to be supported by the local economy, while affordable prices ensure that demand will continue to fuel the housing market. Affordable areas can be good hunting ground for real estate deals (BusinessWeek, 7/18/07). "The real estate market has certainly changed over the last year," says Jim Gillespie, chief executive officer of Coldwell Banker. "I continue to point out that we cannot make national blanket statements about appreciation and inventory. Real estate is a local business, with each market having its own story to tell."

Buyerbeacon.com is devoted to keeping you on top of the latest mortgage and homebuying news as we continue to develop our website, which is set to roll out in July 2008!

U.S. home prices to keep falling

Tighter credit could crimp demand for homes and cause prices to fall further, the Cleveland Fed said. "Any change in the ability to purchase a home . . . can have a large impact on the level and volatility of housing prices," it said. Prices in the 20 largest U.S. cities fell 2.8% in Q2 from a year earlier, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Index.

Buyerbeacon.com promises to keep you on top of the latest mortgage and homebuying news as we continue to develop our website, which is set to roll out in July 2008!