Press Release

Weichert.com Offers New Level of Service to Online Home Buyers Through Weichert Valet

MORRIS PLAINS, N.J. – Home buyers browsing properties online will find an exciting array of helpful new features on Weichert.com.  These latest innovations enable you to stay atop your home search by offering more ways to sort homes, assign ratings, make side-to-side comparisons, and add your own notes.   

These enhancements are part of the new Weichert Valet^SM unveiled earlier this month. Weichert Valet helps deliver the responsive service online home buyers and sellers can expect on weichert.com.     

James M. Weichert, president, said, “Whether the consumer is on our Web site or meeting us face to face, our intention is to deliver the best possible customer experience.  These new enhancements will further empower the 80 percent of buyers who initiate their home search by browsing properties online.” 

Accessing the new features on weichert.com is as simple as clicking on Weichert Valet and signing up for valet services.  Once signed up, you can readily save your home searches as well as any homes that interest you.  You can rank the saved homes by assigning a one- to five-star rating.  There’s also a box for comments so that in the future you can instantly recall what you liked most about the property, what you saw as a drawback, or what you want to ask about when you talk to a Weichert sales associate. 

To make it even easier to evaluate homes you saved, the site allows side-by-side comparisons.   Starting with the price, key features such as the number of bedrooms and baths, lot size, and year built are aligned side by side so you can compare and contrast. 

As another valuable option, Weichert Valet can keep you updated on market activity by automatically e-mailing you new listings in your preferred town(s) and price range.  You control both the frequency and duration of those e-mails and can opt out at any time.  

Weichert.com features Weichert listings as well as the listings of virtually all other cooperating real estate brokers.  Among its popular features are open-house searches, neighborhood information, school reports, and buyers’ and sellers’ guides. Prospective buyers seeking quick mortgage credit approvals can submit a streamlined mortgage-information form directly from weichert.com to Weichert Financial Services, a Weichert affiliate.

Most importantly, whether you call the Web site’s 800-number or send an e-mail, you can expect an immediate response from a friendly Weichert Contact Center specialist.  That specialist can connect you to a Weichert sales associate who’s able to answer your questions about a property and schedule a time to see it. 

One of the leading real estate Web sites, weichert.com gets more than three-million visitors monthly.  Indicative of its usefulness, it consistently ranks first or second among all real estate companies for the length of time that visitors spend on the site, according to Hitwise, which monitors major Web sites daily. 

Weichert has more than 19,000 sales associates in over 500 company-owned and franchised sales offices in key markets throughout the U.S.  A family of full-service real estate and financial services companies, Weichert helps customers buy and sell both residential and commercial real estate, and streamlines the delivery of mortgages and home and title insurance.  For more information, call Weichert's customer service center at 1-800-USA-SOLD or visit Weichert's Web site, www.weichert.com. Each Weichert franchised office is independently owned and operated.

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