PocketListings.net BLOG

Dear Members,

Looking for this?

That was our beta version. We launched it. We got tons of traffic. Agents closed deals because of it. We learned from it. We killed it.

PocketListings.net Version 2.0 is live! We changed at least 100 things since the beta version and we have made a completely overhauled service available to you. The general concept is the same, but now we have tons of new features including Real Estate Match™, Saved Search, a Principals Only feature, Social Networking and Sharing options, Increased Privacy Options, and so much more, all available to help you close more transactions and get more and more happy clients!

Our beta version was a result of hundreds of emails I see weekly from one agent to another both marketing pocket listings, and looking for them for their buyers (buyer need), so we tweaked what we had, and the result is amazing.

Version 2.0 is a 100% feedback driven, and we can’t thank you enough for the valuable insight you have provided.

The new homepage looks like this…

As a current member, you might be wondering what the heck happened to your old account. This is definitely a valid concern, but something you absolutely don’t need to worry about. We have transferred all of the previous accounts over to the new version successfully, your username and password are the same, and and ALL of your posts (including photos) are still live on the new site.

This new version automatically expires posts after 30 days and pulls them off the site, but any posts transferred over will remain live for 60 days from 10/1/2011 (who luvs ya). After 60 days your post will simply Unpublish, but it’s easy to republish it so it remains visible on searches and matches.

To learn all about the new version in detail or if you ever have any questions, please refer to this awesome Tutorial we just threw together. For future reference you can always find it at http://blog.pocketlistings.net/tutorial. We will continue to update it as things change, so don’t hesitate to refer to it later.

We hope you like the new site, and we hope you tell your colleagues. It took us a REALLY long time to release this new version, but we didn’t want to release something with which we weren’t 100% satisfied. We are truly taking a leap forward in the real estate listing industry and we hope you stay with us, as we already have a laundry list of future services to add to help you do more deals even further into the future.

List and search is old school. List, Match, Search, Share, Tweet, Expire, Like, and Link are new school. We are the Dean.

As an active real estate agent in the city of San Francisco, I can categorically state we are filling a void in our marketplace.

We value your business and are striving to make our service something you and your clients come to know and trust, and we hope that you and your clients realize there is now an alternative (not competitor) to MLS. Use your Multiple Listing Service, and use us too. Your clients deserve options, as do you.

If you have any questions about the new site, please refer to our Tutorial from here on out.

As always, may your pocket listings sell quickly, and your buyers find what they need.

Sincerely,

Alexander Clark
Co-Founder

Have a look at our press page to see past articles about PocketListings.net and pocket listing, in general (New York Times article).

We’re pleased to say we have received our first pocket listing post in Taylors, South Carolina, and it’s a beauty.

Eight Berrow Way is five bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and has 5+ parking spaces, and it’s only $459,500! Oh..and it has a pool, basketball court, 3/4 acre fenced, shady lot, cool open-air back porch with wraparound formed concrete terrace, a playroom, and so much more. It also touts being “just the right distance from the throngs!” and the “adjacent lot is part of the .75 acre, but is buildable separately if owner desires.”

That means if you, or anyone you know, lives and works in the greater Greenville, South Carolina area and you’re looking for a home, there is more opportunity out there and you’ll soon find more and more of it right here on PocketListings.net.

If all of you other members are wondering where this property is…here you go.

Woohoo! Things are rolling and we’re glad to see South Carolina getting in the groove.

-8 Berrow Way, Taylors, South Carolina Pocket Listing, $459,500

Hello all, it is I, your co-founder Alex Clark. Many of you may or may not know, but I’m not just a tech guy looking to start a business and make a few bucks. I am entrenched in real estate and have been for the past 10 years. I write a tremendously popular real estate blog in San Francisco, and previously had a newsletter business that has now been copied multiple times by multiple brokerages (I’m okay with it). I was recently chatting with a past client on Facebook and I asked if by chance he’d give me a little endorsement for this new venture I have going.
My wish was granted:

Alex’s thorough market knowledge, utmost professionalism and ability to navigate and push the [sales] process resulted in our family home being sold quickly, over asking and hassle free. Alex Clark is an absolutely fantastic realtor and businessman.
Thank you,
Stephen Reller R & M Properties (Palo Alto Real Estate Developer)

That was a great deal for my client (the seller), and the buyer…and the spark of a new business idea: PocketListings.net.

I hope everyone gets online, joins the network, and can do more deals.

Thanks for your time,

Alex Clark

-R & M Properties, Palo Alto
-theFrontSteps.com

Those of you tech people out there likely already know that Facebook recently introduced a feature that allows strangers to “Subscribe” to a person’s or organization’s feed without becoming “Friends” or forcing a startup outfit like ours to create an entirely new business page.

So for those of you out there that want to be a part of our growing network, but don’t want us to see pictures of you and yours partying like it was 1999 (we totally understand), and you want to stay up on all things “off market”, “not on MLS”, pocket listing, coming soon, and the entire other side of real estate previously under cover, we invite and encourage you to “Subscribe” to our public feeds on Facebook. It will only take a second, and you’ll forever be in the loop.

-Facebook.com/pocketlistings