Foreclosure.com today announced that it has struck a data deal with LiveDeal.com, providing the online classified leader and its site visitors with access to millions of nationwide real estate and foreclosure listings.

Visitors can access the listings online right here.

As part of the partnership, LiveDeal.com will integrate Foreclosure.com listing into its existing database, providing future homebuyers with seamless access to the most comprehensive database of foreclosure listings in the nation through an innovative co-brand site creation.

In particular, site visitors can now search an additional 1.8 million real estate listings without ever leaving LiveDeal.com.

“Our focus is to provide our visitors with the best local products and services on a nationwide scale,” said Mike Edelhart, CEO of LiveDeal. “Foreclosure.com is a natural partner to help us achieve this objective within our real estate channel. Through this new partnership, LiveDeal is adding valuable local foreclosure content to the site and enabling its new partner to reach its target consumers in every neighborhood in the country.”

The data from Foreclosure.com includes property information and in-depth details such as exclusive tax roll information, property photos, as well as seller/listing contact information.

“Foreclosures are hot and getting hotter,” said Foreclosure.com Founder, President and CEO, Brad Geisen. “There are tremendous investment opportunities for homebuyers and investors to choose from right now. This partnership ensures that we will be able to pass these great deals along to millions of people and save (or make) the money.”

To view the site or to search more than 1.8 million real estate listings right now click here.

Recently, Inman News published an article on the misleading prices that are often attached to Trulia.com and Yahoo! Real Estate preforeclosure listings.

It’s a good read, which features commentary and possible solutions from Foreclosure.com Founder, President and CEO, Brad Geisen, about how to correct the problem.

Unfortunately (and unsurprisingly), RealtyTrac.com Vice President of Marketing, Rick Sharga, took exception to Brad’s input. That’s because the company that he represents supplies Trulia.com and Yahoo! Real Estate with their foreclosure data.

Let’s go through a few of Mr. Sharga’s comments line-by-line to clear the air once and for all.

Here he is talking about their misleading listings:

“Neither Yahoo Real Estate or Trulia or RealtyTrac is setting out to mislead anybody. Anybody looking to purchase a foreclosure property is going to have to educate themselves a little on the process. It’s not as straightforward as just buying a resale property from an agent.”

Whether it is done intentionally or not, RealtyTrac — and by association Trulia.com and Yahoo! Real Estate – doesn’t appear to have either the desire or the ability to make it clear that the prices associated with some distressed listings are often not sale prices.

Therefore, while Mr. Sharga claims, in theory, that he and his partners are not setting out to mislead anybody the reality is that they are.

For example, if a Web site visitor sees a home in his or her neighborhood for less than $100,000 -– even though the average sale prices in the area for similar homes are $250,000 or more -– he or she would likely want to find out more about it, right?

To do that, however, he or she must sign up with a credit card to learn more. And when that potential visitor drills down to the exact property he or she may not realize that it is actually a lien amount (not a list price), duping the visitor and creating utter confusion.

Furthermore, many of these types of listings are NOT EVEN FOR SALE!

Accordingly, is it really the responsibility of potential homebuyers to “educate themselves,” as Mr. Sharga suggests, on the difference between how lien and list prices are featured on a Web site or should the data provider take the responsibility to make it crystal clear?

In short, this is a data “packaging” issue and nothing close to an education issue. Potential buyers shouldn’t have to have legal degrees or sift through fine print just to fully understand correct real estate listing prices.

Let’s move on to the next quote from Mr. Sharga:

“To clamp down on dispensing that information across as wide a range of eyeballs as possible would really be doing the people looking for the properties a disservice,” Sharga said. Alluding to Foreclosure.com, Sharga said, “If I was running a site that had only a third as many listings, I might suggest that was a good alternative, too.”

On numerous occasions RealtyTrac.com has been exposed for reporting over exaggerated foreclosure figures … Congress even got burned! That’s the blatant truth behind RealtyTrac’s “stats.” In fact, the company often triple counts multiple listings and fails to expire old listings in a timely fashion (To check out just some of the evidence click here).

That’s likely the reason Foreclosure.com has “a third as many listings.”

It’s common to see the same property listed numerous times on RealtyTrac because each lien holder is often counted as an additional property. For example, let’s say House X goes into foreclosure and has two mortgages and a lien on the home from a roofer who didn’t get paid his $25,000 in repairs after Hurricane Wilma.

RealtyTrac would likely count that as three properties (the two loan defaults and the roofer lien) when in reality it is really just one. On the other hand, Foreclosure.com has the technology, as we well as direct relationships with several of the top lenders, to scrub the data and ensure that it is counted once.

Put simply, we follow each and every property through the entire process and expire it in a timely fashion.

When a company such as RealtyTrac doesn’t do that it forces people to pay good money to view outdated listings under false assumptions. What’s more, and this is the bigger problem, this lack of attention to detail leads to inflated numbers that are sometimes treated like gospel among media outlets with large reader/viewerships.

It’s a domino effect that in turn affects public perception and causes panic and misinformation, damaging consumer confidence. In short, it’s a major disservice to the entire economy when these inaccurate numbers are reported in major media.

Look no further than the Colorado debacle less than one year ago for proof that RealtyTrac publishes overblown and inaccurate data. Unfortunately, some media outlets and local governments have not learned their lesson from that massive and high-profile blunder.

In short, someone needs to tell Mr. Sharga that bigger is not better and certainly most in this business prefer quality over quantity.

And at the end of the day we can sleep easy at night, knowing that we are doing the best we possibly can to provide future homeowners and investors with the very best and MOST ACCURATE distressed real estate information.

Can you say the same, Mr. Sharga?

In fact, we will provide valuable Web site content in the form of more than 1.2 million distressed real estate listings for over 15,000 Z57 agents

In addition, Z57 agents will benefit from free leads from the motivated buyers who visit their sites, ensuring that qualified traffic is captured and available for future marketing initiatives.

To get started today real estate agents and brokers are encouraged to visit www.z57.com/foreclosure.

“Z57 and its agents are known for standing out in the crowd,” said Foreclosure.com Director of Partner Relations, Zack Preble. “Adding the best foreclosure listings to their sites, as well as securing important buyer leads, will help them shine that much brighter.”

With more than 200 themes and customizable content, Z57 turns Realtor® Web sites into valuable community resources. And with more than 15,000 custom nationwide real estate agent Web sites, the company has emerged as the leader in online real estate marketing.

According to Z57 Chief Operating Officer, Ryan Whitlock, a dedication to providing added value to its clients such as the recent partnership with Foreclosure.com is what drives the company’s success.

“We are very happy to be partnering with the foremost provider of foreclosure data on the Web,” said Whitlock. “The real estate market is changing and more and more buyers are looking to purchase distressed real estate than ever before. Our agents will benefit tremendously thanks to this partnership with Foreclosure.com, receiving high quality content and valuable free leads day after day.”

To learn more about Z57 real estate Web design and marketing services, as well as enhancing your Web site with more than 1.2 million nationwide distressed real estate listings, please visit www.z57.com/foreclosure right now.

Foreclosure.com today rolled out a groundbreaking WordPress-compatible plugin that allows bloggers, real estate agents and others to instantly add more than 1.2 million listings to their Web sites with just a few mouse clicks.

The new WordPress Foreclosure Listings Plugin delivers a powerful real estate search capability, complete with property thumbnails and aerial photos.

In addition, Realtors® and others in the real estate business who download the plugin will be able to access and view their roster of clients for future contact, creating a list of qualified leads that can be used for other outreach purposes.

Perhaps more exciting, according to Foreclosure.com Director of Partner Relations, Zack Preble, is that those who download the plugin and feature it on their blogs will also share in any revenue that their Web sites generate.

Here’s a snip from Zack:

“Our plugin partners have the ability to literally enhance the content on their sites exponentially in a matter of seconds and then profit from it continually without lifting a finger. It’s leading-edge technology that is easy to use and install — anyone can do it…. Content, money and leads … and it takes seconds to set up and there is no maintenance. It doesn’t get any better than that.”

The WordPress Foreclosure Listings Plugin delivers a complete real estate search and navigation environment quickly and easily by querying the Foreclosure.com database in real-time. Once a partner activates the program, the plugin will automatically create a WordPress page and a search widget.

It’s that simple.

To download and to learn more about the Foreclosure.com WordPress Foreclosure Listings Plugin CLICK HERE. For even more information or technical support please contact Zack at (561) 981-5337 ext. 326.

This time it comes from a disgruntled (and astute) WashingtonCityPaper.com reader who raises a valid point about a glaring inconsistency.

Here’s the snip:

“RealtyTrac’s numbers are inaccurate. Look at the Year Over Year comparison. According to RealtyTrac, DC’s March 08 numbers are 6,040% higher than the March 07 numbers…. RealtyTrac explains this by saying this percentage might not be totally accurate due to improvements in its collection systems. What does that mean? Were the 07 numbers wrong? Are the 08 numbers wrong? How do you have a 6000% difference and not explain it in a hell of a lot more detail? And why do the media just rely on RealtyTrace without any further digging?… If the City Paper wants to know what the DC numbers are, then send a staffer to the Recorder of Deeds office and check the stats.”

For more troubling news reports that reference Realty Trac foreclosure statistics click here, here, here, here and here.

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