SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Martha Turner
Properties, the number one ranked independent real estate company
in Houston, today announced a
strategic marketing agreement with realtor.com, operated by Move,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MOVE) to become a realtor.com® Company Showcase(SM)
Listing Enhancement subscriber. The agreement
enables enhanced listing descriptions and calls-to-action to
attract buyers and promote Martha Turner Properties' listings on
realtor.com®.
With more than 220 full-time, professional sales associates who
are Realtors, Martha Turner Properties serves the entire greater
Houston area with offices located
in Briar Hollow/River Oaks,
Memorial, the Bay Area, Kingwood,
The Woodlands, and Fort Bend County.
"This strategic alliance with realtor.com®, the nation's premier
national online real estate destination for home buyers and sellers
and professionals, is a natural fit for our strategic marketing
initiatives as we drive to continually enhance our brand and our
services to our clients," said Martha
Turner, CEO and president of Martha Turner Properties.
"Realtor.com® is unparalleled in providing accurate, timely and
comprehensive information for the public and agents alike, and for
delivering the reliable, proven tools that our agents seek out
every day on behalf of their buying and selling clients. I am very
excited to bring the Company Showcase Listing Enhancement solution
to the entire Martha Turner Properties team, and to their
customers."
The realtor.com® marketing solutions will assist Martha Turner
Properties in promoting the brokerage's prominent brand, agent
services and ability to more effectively display listing inventory
to today's buyers and sellers, whether on desktop machines or
mobile devices. As a result of the agreement with realtor.com®,
Martha Turner Properties agents can deliver their buyer and seller
clients:
- A photo gallery of up to 36 high-quality photos of the property
and nearby community
- Detailed custom property descriptions
- Full-motion videos and virtual tours where available
- Open house event promotion
- 24/7 presence of agent and brokerage contact points
- Agent contact details and photo on listing detail pages
- Listing reports to let sellers know how their properties are
performing on realtor.com®
"Our new alliance combines the world-class service at Martha
Turner Properties with the unparalleled tools and visibility
provided only on realtor.com® to help agents effectively represent
and market a property, and their brand, to our national buying and
selling audience," said Errol
Samuelson, president of realtor.com®.
In addition to the website, realtor.com® offers highly rated
mobile real estate apps available for Apple devices, Android and
Windows Phone 7. The app allows agents to brand the app with their
photos and contact information and effortlessly connects agents and
their clients like never before. New features including the
addition of school boundaries continue to add to the mobile
experience provided by the realtor.com® mobile app.
For more information on Martha Turner Properties' services,
visit www.marthaturner.com or call 1-888-520-1981. For real
estate brokerages interested in learning more about REALTOR.com®
marketing solutions call 1-800-878-4166.
About Martha Turner Properties
Houston Business Journal ranked Martha Turner Properties the
number one independent residential real estate firm based on their
closed sales volume in 2012. The closed sales volume for 2012 was
$1.6 billion, the best year in
company's 32 year history. The company is the only residential real
estate firm to be named one of Greater Houston Partnership's Top
Ten Houston Companies. Martha Turner Properties conducts local,
state, national and international advertising campaigns, mailing
out over 5.6 million e-flyers and approximately one million direct
mail cards to advertise its listings. The company publishes a
quarterly magazine, PROPERTIES, which is produced in-house
and mailed to more than 60,000 addresses, and also produces an
internet magazine, e-PROPERTIES.
About realtor.com®
Operated by Move, Inc., (NASDAQ: MOVE), realtor.com® helps
connect people with the content, tools and expertise they need to
find their perfect home. As the official website of the
National Association of REALTORS®, realtor.com®
empowers consumers to make the smartest decisions
when it comes to finding a home by leveraging direct connections
with more than 800 MLSs to deliver the most accurate and up-to-date
listing information in neighborhoods across the country, and by
making timely and meaningful connections between consumers and
REALTORS®. Whether through desktop, mobile, or tablet
versions, realtor.com® is where home happens.
About Move, Inc.
Move, Inc. (MOVE), the leader in online real estate, operates
realtor.com®, the official website of the National Association of
REALTORS®; Move.com, a leading destination for new homes and rental
listings, moving, home and garden, and home finance; ListHub™, the
leading syndicator of real estate listings; Moving.com™;
SeniorHousingNet; SocialBios; Doorsteps®, TigerLead®; and TOP
PRODUCER® Systems. Move is based in San Jose, Calif.
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SOURCE realtor.com