Thursday, April 22, 2010

Weekend Open Houses

Howard Hanna Holt Real Estate is hosting a slew of open houses this weekend.

The Fredonia Office will be having their open houses tonight from 6-7:30 at the following locations.
57 Castile Drive
110 Clinton Street
54 Castile Drive
183 CHESTNUT STREET
52 Castile Drive

The Mayville and Westfield Office will hold their open houses on Saturday from 1-3 pm at the following locations:
Westfield:
145 South Portage Sreet
200 EAST MAIN (RTE 20)
7625 Prospect Road
22 Cottage Street
7862 Martin Wright Road
163 Bliss Street
79 North Portage

And at Bemus Bay Condominiums at 50 Lakeside Drive in Bemus Point.

DID YOU KNOW? You can quickly access any howardhannaholt listing by typing theaddress.howardhanna.com.  ie. http://22cottagestreet.howardhanna.com

For all your real estate needs in Chautauqua County and advice on real estate outside of it, visit http://www.howardhannaholt.com or stop by one of our 6 convenient locations.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Howard Hanna Partners with Zillow.com


Zillow.com® Partners with Howard Hanna Real Estate Services
 
Fourth Largest Real Estate Company in the United States Joins Zillow® Listings Feed Program
 
SEATTLE April 15, 2010– Zillow.com and Howard Hanna Real Estate Services today announced a partnership which enables Howard Hanna to automatically feed all of their 21,000 for-sale listings to Zillow.com. The syndication of Howard Hanna’s listings to Zillow will improve the real estate search experience for Zillow users in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and New York.

 
Howard Hanna joins more than eight hundred partners participating in the Zillow Listings Feed Program which launched in November 2007, and has grown to more than four million for-sale listings, and over 65,000 rental listings today.  The program allows listing providers to automatically receive free marketing exposure for their listings on one of the most-visited real estate sites in the country, while providing Zillow’s users with a more robust search experience. 
 
Each listing Howard Hanna feeds to Zillow includes a description of the property with multiple photos, full marketing text, agent contact information, and a link back to the Howard Hanna website.  
                   
 “Zillow is proud to partner with Howard Hanna, the fourth largest real estate company in the nation[i], and a highly regarded brokerage that has been a leader in the real estate community for over 50 years,” said Spencer Rascoff, Zillow’s chief operating officer.
 
Howard W. “Hoddy” Hanna, III, Chairman and CEO, added, “We continually seek out ways to innovate and maximize marketing exposure for our associates and listings.  By distributing our listings to Zillow, we are able to expose our clients to Zillow’s audience of more than 10 million unique visitors[ii]. each month. This offers a tremendous marketing opportunity for our 4,000 sales associates, and their sellers.”
 
In addition to being displayed on the Zillow.com Web site, Howard Hanna listings will also appear on the Zillow iPhone® App, the number one real estate application in the Apple® iTunes Store®, the Zillow Android® App, the leading real estate app in the Android Market, and on Zillow on iPad®.
 
For more information on Zillow Listings Feeds, visit www.zillowfeeds.com
 
About Howard Hanna Real Estate Services
Howard Hanna Real Estate Services is the 4th largest real estate company in the United States. The company specializes in residential and commercial brokerage service, mortgages, closing and title insurance, land development, appraisal services, insurance services, and corporate relocation. With 131 offices across Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and West Virginia, Howard Hanna’s more than 4,700 sales associates, management and staff are guided by a spirit of integrity in all aspects of the real estate process.  Visit www.howardhanna.com for more information.  
 
About Zillow.com
Zillow.com is an online real estate marketplace where homeowners, buyers, sellers, renters, real estate agents, and mortgage professionals find and share vital information about homes and mortgages. Launched in early 2006 with Zestimate home values and data on millions of U.S. homes, Zillow has since added homes for sale and homes for rent, a directory of real estate and lending professionals, Zillow Advice and Zillow Mortgage Marketplace. One of the most-visited real estate Web sites, with more than 10 million[iii] unique visitors per month, Zillow's goal is to help people become smarter about homes and real estate in every stage of their lives -- home buying, selling, renting, remodeling and financing. The company is headquartered in Seattle and has raised $87 million in funding.
 
Zillow.com and Zillow are registered trademarks of Zillow, Inc.  Apple, iPhone, iPad and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc.
 
Android is a trademark of Google Inc.
 
Howard Hanna Real Estate Services is a registered trademark of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, Inc.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Time Running out on tax credit

Home sales must be under contract before April 30th.
But don't freak out, call a Howard Hanna Holt agent and let them help you take advantage of this opportunity before it passes you by.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Our visibility featured in Dunkirk Observer

The the following was in the Dunkirk Observer. 

It's no secret that real estate firms compete to get property listings and sales. But how they go about it for their clients and customers defines them.
Locally-owned and operated Howard Hanna Holt Real Estate has developed a "superior visibility" approach to marketing the residential and commercial properties it represents.
"We have made major investments to make sure the properties we have listed are well exposed to potential buyers," said company vice president Stephen Holt. "We continue to invest in signage and traditional print advertising, but more and more of our promotional resources are devoted to internet marketing. That's where today's buyers look first."
"No real estate company in Chautauqua County has its properties listed on as many Web sites as Howard Hanna Holt," Holt said. "The company's property listings are on more than 300 internet sites.
The superior visibility concept was internally-generated, Holt noted, saying, "We want to stay in the marketing forefront and want our clients to know it. Anyone who lists their property with us expects the highest level of service and we expect to provide it."
For example, he explained, potential property purchasers are contacted by the company's headquarters staff within a week to make sure they received a timely response from the listing agent and that all their questions were answered.
"Superior visibility efforts need to be complimented by total quality service," Holt said. "That results in very satisfied sellers and buyers."
Locally-owned Howard Hanna Holt Real Estate, www.howardhannaholt.com, offers comprehensive residential and commercial real estate sales, leasing and related services including real property appraisals, property management, development services, vacation property rentals and traditional rentals. The Chautauqua County-headquartered affiliate of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services has offices in Fredonia, Mayville and Westfield, on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution, at the Bemus Bay condominiums and at Peek'n Peak Resort and Spa.
Pittsburgh-headquartered Howard Hanna Real Estate Services is the third-largest independent real estate company in the United States, the country's fourth-largest full service real estate company and the sixth-largest mortgage banking company in the nation.