New Condos Online is proud to introduce another exiting partnership!  We have joined forces with Realestock.com to provide all of our clients their cutting edge technology platform.  Realestock.com is a new site that features luxury condos and homes and creates a community of two way communitcation between buyers and developers/sales representatives.  Realestock.com provides users with a safe and easy to use portal for viewing new luxury condo and home communities and for gathering the necessary buying information.

Realestock.com has hired Edelman, the largest PR firm in the country, to support the launch of their exciting new platform.  Realestock.com is not a traditional listing site nor does it stive to become another MLS flooded with all types of listings.  The site will focus on luxury lifestyles, new condos and urban communities, resort communities and luxury estates.  Users will be able to communicate directly with the sales representatives through chats, forums, and blogs. 

Another exciting feature of Realestock.com is that users can become members of this exclusive world of luxury real estate offers for FREE.  Users can post profiles and be alerted of upcoming events, grand openings, special offers, etc.  As the leader in online marketing for new condo developments and luxury home communities, New Condos Online was invited to be a featured partner of Realestock.com.  This means that all of our valued clients will also be featured on Realestock.com and benefit from their agressive technology and PR efforts.  We plan to grow the partnership with combined marketing and PR efforts.  More exciting things to come...

New Condos Online is proud to announce that we have been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in San Diego!  Biz San Diego held a competition to seek out local privately held companies that have experienced exceptional growth over the past few years.  The finalists covered a wide array of industries from breweries to technology companies.  The awards dinner was at The Prado in Balboa Park here in san Diego.  Of all the companies in San Diego, 20 finalists were chosen.  Of the 20 finalists, 10 companies won awards in order of their growth.  New Condos Online was excited to find out that we earned fourth place!  None of this would have been possible without our amazing users and clients.  We will continue to improve our service and provide an exceptional marketplace for real estate.

NCO is proud to announce that we are opening up our newly upgraded agent community to ALL international regions.  Agents from across the globe can post profiles, videos, listings, as well as network with other agents and create lasting business partnerships.  The world is becoming increasingly more flat as technology brings us all closer together in one marketplace.  Real estate is no different.  Many American condo investors and buyers are looking outside the United States for new opportunities while foreign buyers and investors looking for new condos are looking here.

Real Estate agents worldwide are the glue that binds all of this together and an integral part of the transaction process bringing local knowledge and years of expertise to the table.  In an era of online social networking, it makes sense to continue to provide new platforms for real estate professionals to meet and build relationships.  New Condos Online continues to strive to create a productive, fun, and unique experience for our users, clients, and agents across the world.

Our new Agent Community is and always will be a FREE service so please do not hesitate to take advantage.  List you new condo developments today and start networking!

www.newcondosonline.com is proud to announce that we have launched 8 new feeds today to expand our partnership with Boulevard Media and the city.com websites. All these sites have a special condo section sponsoreed by NCO and our clients that purchase listings on NCO will also receive a listing in the appropriate city on these new sites. This brings us up to over 30 xml feeds. The new sites include:

Indianapolis.com

Detroit.com

Minneapolis.com

Raleigh.com

Salt Lake City.com

Milwaukee.com

Memphis.com

San Antonio.com

Dallas.com

St. Petersburg.com

We are gearing up for another great year at New Condos Online and have some exciting new technologies and business models that will benefit our users, our clients, and the home building industry alike.  We all know that times are tough and they are not about to get much easier any time soon.  In the mean time, all we can do is help each other and work together in effectively marketing new condos and homes to the willing buyers...they are out there!

By researching our user based and home buying trends, we have noticed that many people looking for condos and townhomes also have aspirations to live in single family homes.  Some feel they can't afford it or do not need that much space but there are great and affordable opportunities in the home market as well.  Throughout this year and into next year, we will see the market flooded with lower prices and good deals for home and condo buyers.  Overall, this is not great for the housing industry but the correction does offer the buyers and investors some opportunity.  Many people out there, depending on price, are simply looking for a nice home, with plenty of space, that is in the area they desire.  This could be a home, townhome, or condo.  Through a partnership with one of the largest home builders in the nation, New Condos Online will be offering single family home communities on the site as well.  There will be certain functionalities and sorting features so users can easily define what they are looking for.

We are also building out our agent community with better technology and a more advanced networking platform.  This will give agents a better resource within our site to grow their businesses and engage in the kind of networking that leads to more transactions.  Agents will also be able to upload videos, flyers, etc.

We are proud to announce the launch of a new partnership between NCO and Toll Brothers Inc. to showcase 21 new condo developments from across the nation.  NCO will go live with Toll Brother's new development listings on Friday and will be featuring projects from California to Virginia...coast to coast!  NCO will also be launching comprehensive email marketing campaigns for all of Toll Brother's new condo projects that are part of the partnership.

Another exciting announcement to note is that NCO will be launching its first single family home listings exclusively for Toll Brothers for a short time.  New Condos Online will then be opening this opportunity to all current and new home builder clients across the world.  I know what you're thinking...it seems strange that the largest condo advertising website would feature single family homes.  In fact, it makes perfect sense.  So many home buyers out there searching for condos would also consider (or might even prefer) a new single family home.  Most are under the impression that they can't afford it...in many cases this is not true.

Recently, my family and I purchased a new home.  Our search started online of course and we were under the impression that a new condo or townhome would be where we would land.  We ended up finding a great opportunity with a huge 4 bedroom home...the price had come down quite a bit.  Almost $250,000 lower than when it was built in 2000!  Again, we found our home on the Internet!

As one of the largest and most respected home and condo builders in the world, Toll Brothers Inc. will bring great new value to our users and offer exciting new homes and condos across the country.  We are thrilled to welcome Toll Brothers Inc. as a new highly valued client and look forward to a long business relationship.

With my job, I get asked at least 5 times per day about what condo markets I like right now. People want to know where they should put their money in this market. Now that rates have fallen again this week, it is much more affordable to purchase a condo if you have decent credit. I would like to discuss my favorite condo markets right now and why I like them.

1. New York City- New York City, especially Manhattan is the only market in the country where prices and sales continue to steadily increase. They will always be demand for living in New York as it is the most densly populated city in the country and the busiest. Even if you can't live there, rental rates in New York are higher than anywhere else in the country. If you can find a good building where the HOA's are not too high and the price is right, New York can be a great place to buy a condo. Search all the New York Condos that NCO represents.

2. Los Angeles- I am always in favor of buying and investing in condos in areas that have the highest population growth in this country because there will always be a high demand for housing. With the star power of Hollywood, many condo developers are almost giving some condos away to celebrities in order to get publicity for their condo project. Either way, high-rise condo living in Los Angeles is becoming very popular and there are some great projects at much more affordable prices than the homes in the hills in LA. Check out Los Angeles Condos here.

Big news is a buzz and people are doing more than talking about the current state of the U.S economy. While the majority of the working U.S took the day off to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. day, signs that the U.S dollar was receding to a weaker state. The Chinese and German market fell sharply and it was due in part to a response of the short comings the dollar has seen in the last several months. It doesn't help that our economic leaders have proposed an economic stimulus package that will end up totalling 150 billion dollars and giving back a total of $1200.00 to a full family and close to $600.00 to a single tax payer. It's a great idea and opportunity to stimulate the economy but, considering the last time that the Federal Reserve decided to give back to the taxpayers in the form of a stimulus package, the majority of tax payers SAVED that money. What a joke right!? Wouldn't it be more prudent to spend 3 million dollars on a nation wide poll to determine of the money would be spent or saved PRIOR to presenting a new economic stimulus plan!? It's pretty silly, but I suppose crazy enough to work. Obviously the area's that are impacted the most are big cities like San Diego, Los Angeles and even small towns like Clearwater Beach FL.

Largest Condo Website has Record Year in Down Market

www.newcondosonline.com is the largest and most visited new condo website in the country. The San Diego based company posted record profits for 2007, even though the state of the real estate market has been poor overall. With Over 1300 clients in 20 countries, www.newcondosonline.com proved that Internet marketing is the most cost effective resource for condo and townhome developers in this day and age. The company provides a free service to users where they can search and compare new condo developments by visiting property websites and requesting free information. Developers and marketing firms pay monthly fees to list their projects on the leading website in the industry.

On their success this year, CEO Brandon Fishman said, “We have proved the success of the Internet for generating condo buyer leads. Developers and marketing firms now understand the importance of website traffic and overall internet exposure.  www.newcondosonline.com is the leading website in the country because our site is simple and easy for our home buyers to use.”

Well, its off the Phoenix, Arizona tomorrow for some newspaper interviews and a talk radio show discussing the current state of the condo and housing makrets, as well as tips/advice for current potential homebuyers.  Everyone is waiting to see what the Fed does today in terms of interest rates, as well as anxious to see how President Bush's mortgage plan rolls out. 

The basis of the plan is to place a five year freeze on mortgage rates for borrowers facing the threat of default on sub-prime mortgages.  Many of these sub-prime mortgages are ARM's, or Adjustable Rate Mortagages.  These loan products are set at a lower fixed rate for 3, 5, or 7 years and then adjust upward based on the Fed's discount rate.  This freeze will essentially place a hold on these rates getting ready to adjust so the buyers won't face loan payments they can't afford.  The banks really do not want to see a massive waive of foreclosures because, let's be honest...banks are not real estate companies.  They do not want to hold assets such as condos and homes for long periods of time.  It is costly!

Happy Verteran's Day to all who have sacrificed in service for our great nation...including all military families, wives, children.  Our soldiers could not do it without the support of our loved ones. 

New Condos Online has officially opened the west coast office for Americas Media Group today!  We have great new employees that are hitting the ground running.  New Condos Online and Americas Media Group instantly saw the value in creating the formal partnership we now have to form the perfect marriage in luxury real estate marketing and media.  The plan for the new NCO/AMG west coast office is to bring the media buying and branding expertise of AMG to the Western United States in a greater capacity.  AMG represents major luxury condo developments across the globe and has the power to create great discounts for developers when placing crucial media that will lead to sales.  As New Condos Online expands our one-stop-shop, AMG will play an integral role in bringing the greatest possible value for the developer while taking their project from concept to sale.

There is a great video about NCO out on www.thestreet.com  today.

Check it out here  

Potential Homebuyers Find a Gem in New Site

What they would change, if they could: The San Diego-based business more than doubled its sales between 2006 and 2007. But Fishman and Gleeson can still find room for improvement. "We would have spent more time and money on search engine optimization. Top placement in Google is key to any business in this day and age, and the cost of PPC gets higher every day. In addition, we would have placed more emphasis on employee commissions. We've learned over time that commissions and incentives drive employees to bring in more business."

As the founders of NCO, myself and business partner Brent Gleeson always try to give back to the community whenever we can. We regular donate time and money to many charities that are near and dear to our hearts. An opportunity arose that has allowed use to use our entrepeneur skills to hopefully change the face of education in this country. We are now co-founders of a brand new website officially launching tomorrow called www.TutorZilla.com.  This is a full scale online tutoring site geared to students of all ages. We offer math tutoring, science tutoring, Language tutoring, SAT tutoring, and more. With certified expert tutors in each subject, we are working with schools and organizations across the country to help the children of our country excel at learning. We will also be working with children of our fallen soldiers from the War to offer free tutoring for them.  Check out more info at www.tutorzilla.com. The official launch is tomorrow.

New Condos Online is proud to announce a further exciting development in our partnership...the opening of a new West Coast office for Americas Media Group run in conjunction with NCO teams.  New Condos Online and Americas Media Group are expanding the media buying power to more areas in the Western United States including California and Mexico.  Our relationship will include the usualy media buying services for luxury condo developers as well as integrate the NCO Capital financial solutions for developers of condo projects in the US and the Americas. 

New Condos Online is bringing new relationships to AMG to aid in the explosive grwoth of the company and NCO will be getting our feet wet in managing the media buying process with the AMG representatives.  Very exciting!

More to come about this amazing partnership...

Well, as expected the trip to Tempe, AZ was a great success.  The groundbreaking ceremony for Mosaic was a fantastic and impressive affair and we are proud to have attended.  Even more importantly, NCO and Americas Media Group heald a series of meetings to discuss in detail the formal roll-out plan for expanding the partnership.  Miami-based AMG is the fastest growing media company in the US and internationally...the next place to set up shop is of course sunny California!  NCO will be opening another office with AMG to bring a more perminent aspect to their west coast operations.

New Condos Online and AMG will be expanding the services we offer together to include NCO Capital's finance and bulk purchase models for new condo devlopments all over the world.  More ecxiting things to come!

Finally, developers are starting to realize that when the market is slower, budgets need to be adjusted include the most cost effective advertising. The Internet is the most cost effective place in the world for developers to advertise and it works.  This is just the start of the change from print to online. We actually brought on over 30 new condo developments this week across the world. We also have a brand new luxury condo project in Reno called The Belvedere that had tremendous success this week from an NCO email blast. We have some amazing new condo project in Mexico coming on next week.

Home buyers can now find our banners and advertisements on Zillow.com, LasVegas.com, and Vegas.com.  This is the first part of our new advertising plan to be featured on many large real estate sites across the world.  Stay Tuned for more updates and news from NCO.

New Condos Online continues to improve our user experince and product for our clients. We are proud to announce the launch of our new website which uses a much more advanced interface and technology foundation which improves site quality and speed. This in turn improves the product/service we provide our condo developments and media agencies because speed increases page views and conversions.

The site now offers more featured placements for premier clients which offers more visibility and leads to more sales leads. Now is the time to continually strive to seek willing condo buyers.

 Real estate is at home online Metro Philadelphia, Thursday September 13, 2007:

NCO President and CEO- Brent Gleeson and Brandon Fishman will be traveling to Philadelphia, New York City, and Atlanta next week on our current PR tour. We have confirmed interviews with www.thestreet.com, INC.com, Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and others.

We always strive to get the largest amount of buyers to our website through every avenue possible. As the condo market has been soft this summer, it is essential buyers know that there are great deals out there right now with amazing incentives being offered. We enocurage condo buyers to look for financially based incentives such as no HOA's for a year, mortgage payments covered, or less money down. We caution buyers on incentives such as flat screen TV's because they are usually built into the price.  Stay tuned for more info on the NCO PR Tour.

This ran in the current August Issue of The Mann Report Residential out of New York

Mann Report

As the housing industry struggles during the current cycle, agents and developers seek new and cost effective means to market their products and services.  With 80% of home buyers using the Internet as a primary part of their initial home search, home builders and agents have now reallocated marketing dollars to gain more exposure for a fraction of the cost.  Online resources and major listing websites are thriving as home sales slow because more real estate professionals now realize the buyers are all on the Internet.  NewCondosOnline.com, the nations leading online advertiser of new condo developments, and CondoCompany.com, a leading technology company offering an array of services to condo developers and agents, have recently joined forces to further strengthen their foundation in the marketplace.  “Both companies have such a broad Internet presence and proven track records with condo developers and agents, that the partnership was an obvious benefit.  Together we offer condo developers and real estate agents the most exposure possible for their money,” says NewCondosOnline.com President, Brent Gleeson.  The two companies have formally partnered to leverage each others strengths and offer everything from online advertising and website design to financial services and bulk purchase strategies for condo developers.  NewCondosOnline.com and CondoCompany.com are also offering new and existing clients combined advertising packages to double the online exposure which will further accelerate the sales momentum for new and pre-construction condo developments.    About NewCondosOnline.com:  NewCondosOnline.com is the largest and most visited new condo advertising portal in the countr

Brent and I spent the week in New York City meeting with our new PR Firm and many members of the press. This firm has a great reputation and many contacts in the press.  We had interviews with Business Week, The New York Times, NY Living, Unique Homes, Multi Housing News, and others. We have upcoming spots with GQ and TheStreet.com.  As NCO grows, our main goal is to reach as many potential home buyers as possible for our clients and a lot of this new press will help us continue to be the largest and by far the most visited site in the industry today. Upcoming press trips are planned to Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Mexico, and more.

Well, we are off to New York tomorrow for the New Condos Online media tour.  NCO has hired a new major PR firm that will be making efforts to build our global brand, increase traffic and exposure, and catch the eye of other potential partnering companies.  The New York condo market has been hot for NCO.  We have major partnerships such as Sherman Advertising, The Marketing Directors, and Americas Media Group that have brought representation from many new developments in the area.

NCO has a profile in the August issue of The MANN Report, a New York business journal.  We also have interviews lined up with the New York Times, Business Week, CNBC, and so on.  This strategy will only further solidify NCO's top placement in the industry and position us well against competitors.  That is really the least of our concerns as our main focus is to continue to provide a valuable product to our clients and a great resource for our users.  Gaining more exposure for NCO will help our condo developers further expand their reach to potential buyers and gain visibility to foreign investors which is so important right now. 

There will be plenty more to come, so we will keep you posted! 

The founders of NCO have been asked to attend a business lunch meeting tomorrow with several key business figures in San Diego to dine and meet with Governor Schwarzenegger.  I am sure the housing market will be discussed so we will keep our readers posted. I have always been a fan so we are honored to meet him and attend the meeting. I also heard he is buying a brand new luxury condo in Los Angeles so I look forward to hearing about that.  Details to follow.

-Brandon

Today we rolled out the first 4 of our city.com feeds.  All of our client's properties in these cities will be featured in a special condos and lofts section of these leading websites.  This is an exclusive relationship and further proves that NCO is the leading condo advertising company in the country today.  We strive to always get the most web traffic and leads for our clients.  Stay tuned for more cities rolling live soon.

http://www.sanfrancisco.com/realestate/newcondosonline/

http://www.losangeles.com/realestate/newcondosonline/

http://www.philadelphia.com/realestate/newcondosonline/

http://www.washingtondc.com/realestate/newcondosonline/

 

Here at www.newcondosonline.com we work extremely hard to ensure that we are the largest and most visited new condo website in the country. We have the best sales team in the country and I want to recognize team for another great week as we brought on 24 new condo developments across the globe. The formual is simple: We produce better than anywebsite in the country and we get our clients results. High Traffic and low prices on NCO turn into large amounts of leads and sales for our clients. We are the only site that I know that increases our own marketing budget every time we bring on a new client. This means that our marketing budget increased 24 separate times this week. Our web traffic grows with our number of clients. We love our clients and our users. To increase the user interface on our site, NCO just signed a 12 week deal to completly re-design our website and search engine. Stay tuned for more details.

www.newcondosonline.com is the first, largest, and most visited new condo advertising website in the country.  The company announced an alliance with multiple city.com sites today. As of July 1, 2007, all NewCondosOnline.com listings will appear on LosAngeles.com, SanFrancisco.com, Philadelphia.com,  and WashingtonDC.com for their respective cities.  This alliance was created through Boulevard Media. These sites now join the local network of 10 other websites that www.newcondosonline.com already disperses their listings on.

“We provide the most national and International exposure for new condo developments of any website in the world. We are proud to take the first large step in building our local network. We feel this alliance will provide greater local exposure for our clients in these four markets. We plan to roll out additional cities throughout the year,” said CEO Brandon Fishman.

Each of the 4 city.com websites will have a special new condo development section sponsored by www.newcondosonline.com.  For example, in Los Angeles, there will be listings of every condo development that NCO has in that city. All links will go back to the listings on www.newcondosonline.com.   The feed will be updated daily so that every time a new condo development signs with NCO, the property will be updated on the respective partner website if it is located in a partner city.

We are proud to announce that NCO has signed a record 10 new condo developments in one day from different developers all across the country. We have increased our staff over here and as the real estate market begins to pick back up, our users will have even more new condo choices on our website. We are thrilled to be the leader in the new condo advertising industry and I would like to thank our team for their excellent work today.  These new properties are in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Arizona, California, Florida, and Washington.  Stay Tuned for more information.