Real Estate Weekly Goes Online and Re-brands As rew.ca
The Real Estate Weekly, that Metro Vancouver real estate newspaper you get in with your free local paper, has just re-branded itself for the 21st century as rew.ca.
Tuesday night was the launch party at the Four Seasons and they put on a great event, although I have to admit I missed the first half as I had a last minute home inspection in Port Moody. Many of my favourite Vancouver bloggers were there as well as the team for rew.ca and Rudy Nielsen of Landcor, who gave, what I was told, was an excellent speach on the real estate market and the importance of of good data and statistics.
The new site looks great. There are three search options along the top of the site; real estate for sale (re-sale homes), new homes, and find as realtor, along with a mortgage information button and a real estate news button. Right smack dab in the middle of the site there is big and easy to use real estate search box. All Metro Vancouver real estate brokerages that agree will have their listings appearing on the site and I don't understand why they would say no, but many realtors and brokers are still very concerned with controlling the listing data.
You can also register with the site to have new properties emailed to you, save your favourite homes, and. get the latest news. The interface to slick and clean, but remember this is not all the listings from the MLS yet, although they are working on that.
There is also a mobile version which I am happy to say worked pretty well on my two year old Blackberry Tour although there was some formatting issues with text running over listing photos on individual listings.
Thanks for the invite rew.ca and I look forward to speding some more time on the site soon.
Matt Collinge, Vancouver Real Estate Consultant
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