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SILive.com Real Estate Driving Home Sales on Staten Island
Visit SILive.com"s new real estate section for your Staten Island Real Estate needs.
silive.com/realestate can provide you with a customized map of homes for sale, as well as tools
and information to help you find houses for rent and new homes on Staten Island.
Staten Island, NY (PRWEB) August 9, 2007 -- The Staten Island real estate market has a new driving force. This
weekend when house hunters set out to look at homes for sale or rent, they"ll be armed with a customized route
map. A quick visit to silive.com/realestate provides all the tools and information a potential buyer or renter needs
to locate available homes and plan a road trip to see them.
Sophisticated technology and a smart user interface are changing the way home seekers find houses, apartments,
lenders as well as Staten Island Real Estate Agents and Brokers. By providing all the tools in one place, the
upgraded site gives everyone in the market for a home a one-source destination. silive.com/realestate even helps
with decision making. The first time home buyer might use the site to select an agent or broker. Empty nesters
can weigh the options: downsize, buy a condo or rent an apartment.
The centerpiece of the upgraded Real Estate site is the Advance Mapping Tool and Driving Tour functionality.
Front and center at the new silive.com/realestate is an intuitive interactive map. When visitors search Staten
Island homes for sale or houses for rent on Staten Island, they enter their choices including location, number of
bedrooms, price range and listing type (Advanced Search offers even more options). Select SEARCH and the
map becomes a one-of-a-kind annotated guide showing all the selections. When the visitor is finished, the map
and driving directions are printed out and the tour begins.
SILive.com is already a first choice destination for Staten Island local news, information and classified ads.
Home buyers often start with a visit to the site because they expect, and get, comprehensive local real estate news
and listings. According to Barbara Chodos, General Manager of SILive.com, 'SILive.com is already a first-stop
for many in the real estate market. With the new tools and easier access to everything a home buyer or renter
needs, we expect to see a significant increase in traffic.'
Unlike many other sites, visitors to silive.com/realestate come from every stage of the real estate
decision-making cycle. Some are deciding whether to rent or buy; others are debating the benefits of a new home
vs. an older home or comparing one town to another. For each of them, there is much more than the Driving
Tour. A quick scroll down the page reveals many more options. For those who are 'just looking' tools and
resources are a quick link away. Learn about recent home sales, mortgage rates or foreclosures. Watch videos of
local real estate brokers. Select an agent. The sophisticated buyer of residential or commercial real estate will
turn to silive.com/realestate again and again to check current information and listings.
SILive.com focuses on the local market. Local real estate news is accessed directly from silive.com/realestate.
Since SILive.com is affiliated with the Staten Island Advance, the news is current and comprehensive. All home
seekers have the tools, resources and information they need, all available at one site.
The new silive.com/realestate is an example of the unique approach that the site uses -- combining smart,
technological tools and comprehensive local information to deliver the everyday information local residents and
visitors need and want. 'The Driving Tour is the perfect tool for home buyers. It is an excellent example of the
way we continually upgrade our site to satisfy the needs of the local market,' states Barbara Chodos.
SILive.com based in Staten Island, NY, is an affiliate of Advance Internet, Inc. (
advanceinternet.com/), a leading creator of highly interactive, online community-based news and
information web sites created in alliance with over 37 newspapers owned and operated by Advance Publications
Inc., and its subsidiaries, including the Staten Island Advance. In addition to SILive.com, Advance Internet, Inc.
develops and manages nine other local web sites including al.com; cleveland.com; MassLive.com; MLive.com;
NJ.com; NOLA.com; OregonLive.com; PennLive.com; Syracuse.com and two specialty web sites, gulflive.com
and MardiGras.com.
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Contact Information
Jim Bridges
SILive.com
silive.com/realestate
503.972.1039