Community Associations Network Industry News

Coconut Grove, FL, March 12, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Condo.com, the World’s Largest Condo Marketplace, will be a sponsor at the upcoming conference on Distressed Residential Real Estate Investing. This prestigious event will take place on March 18-19 at the Trump Sonesta Resort in Miami Beach, FL.

“This is the perfect event for us to sponsor because our site offers a solution to both buyers and sellers of distressed residential real estate. Condo.com has a section dedicated to bulk condo opportunities, which many investors are looking for. Our website provides an easy, effective way to search for deals by multiple criteria including geographic region, specific streets or buildings, and discount percentages to name a few,” says Richard Swerdlow, CEO of Condo.com. “In a period, where news about the real estate market is mostly negative, Condo.com provides buyers and opportunistic investors with the tools to efficiently search the most extensive listing inventory of condos worldwide, while offering liquidity solutions and buyer leads to developers, brokers, and sellers.”

To schedule an appointment with Condo.com, conference attendees should email wendy@athena-marketing.com or contact Wendy Croquet at 954.294.6467.

About Condo.com
Condo.com (www.condo.com) is the world’s largest condominium marketplace with over 500,000 listings from the United States and 70+ countries around the world with inventory valued at over $100 billion. The site cost-effectively delivers exposure to developers, brokers, financial institutions and other sellers through the seamless distribution of its listings to a global network of websites visited by over 15 million viewers per month. Condo.com is a privately held company headquartered in Miami, Florida. For more information, visit www.condo.com or call 877.266.3601.

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Boston, MA (PRWEB) March 3, 2008 -- Boston Condo Group is announcing the launch of their new website, BostonCondoGroup.com. The site has been completely recreated to include innovative search tools, the largest database of residential developments in the city, as well as a sleek front-end design that greatly improves the user's experience.

The Boston real estate market has recently experienced a residential building boom where many new condo developments have been built throughout the city. This new inventory adds to an already large catalog of luxurious buildings and brownstones in Boston's neighborhoods, such as Beacon Hill, North End, Back Bay, Charlestown, South End and the Waterfront. Potential buyers in this market have been in need of a resource that allows them to breakdown the inventory based on their needs and search criteria. Most real estate websites simply feature units that they have listings for, rather than all that is available on the market, and this presents a huge disadvantage to buyers. Boston Condo Group's news website combines a complete database of available inventory along with innovative search tools that have been developed to make the searcher's experience as efficient as possible.

Matthew Powers, Chief Information Officer, whom developed the website's search technology, said, "Our search capabilities leverage off of today's latest technology, which in turn help facilitate an informative experience for our clients. The website containing a wealth of information is not enough for us, we take pride in being able to present it too our users in a unique and helpful manner."

Boston Condo Group hired the services of one of the city's top web development firms to create a sleek and modern design for the new site, one that would be appealing to visitors while adding a sense of simplicity to the site's navigation. The combination of achieving each of these objectives has resulted in a website that is completely user-friendly.

Matthew Winterle, Broker and co-founder of Boston Condo Group, said "We are really excited to receive feedback from our visitors after they see the new site for the first time. We've always had a wealth of information available to them, but our old site didn't present it as efficiently as we would have liked, and many visitors would leave before finding the information they needed. The new site has done very well in testing, and I'm confident that the overall experience for all of our users will be greatly improved."

About Boston Condo Group, LLC:
Boston Condo Group is a real estate brokerage that focuses on representing buyers within Boston's residential condominium market. BostonCondoGroup.com was developed in an effort to create the definitive resource for buyers searching the condo market. Our innovative tools enable visitors to search the MLS, by neighborhood, or by viewing our hundreds of dedicated development pages. Boston Condo Group is located on the Waterfront in Boston's North End. Contact us today.

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Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c78426) has announced the addition of 'Housing Associations and Related Organizations in the US' to their offering.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in promoting the interests of their members. The industry excludes religious organizations, social advocacy organizations, civic and social organizations, business associations, professional organizations, labor unions,
and political organizations. The industry includes such things as condominium or co-operative owners associations (which may be engaged in property management), and homeowners and condominium associations that do not provide property management. A homeowner association is comprised of two or more homeowners that belong to a mandatory membership organization for the maintenance of commonly-owned real estate and improvements. Organizations range in size from a simple duplex to developments with thousands of detached homes, condominiums and townhouses, which have marinas, golf courses and other recreational facilities to maintain. This report covers the scope, size, disposition and growth of the industry including the key sensitivities and success factors. Also included are five year industry forecasts, growth rates and an analysis of the industry key players and their market shares.

Industry put on hold

Over the past few years, the number of communities governed by a housing association has risen dramatically, suggesting rapid growth in its popularity. As housing starts increase, so to will the number of community associations, but while the full affects of the subprime crisis are still to be played out, and both GDP and construction activity slow, housing starts are expected to struggle in the near term.

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Today, condoDomain.com Founder Tony Longo and Boston Real Estate Blogger John A. Keith released The Condo Run ( www.TheCondoRun.com ), a 10 mile tour through downtown Boston highlighting 20 of the most exciting new lifestyle condominium developments via High-Definition Video over the Internet. All proceeds from the Run are donated to the St. Francis House and The Pine Street Inn, two of the largest homeless shelters in downtown Boston.

The latest in luxury real estate marketing is the use of interactive streaming video. A service that condoDomain.com started offering early 2006 with the introduction of the lifestyle oriented real estate videos branded Condo Casts. "Video has enabled us to convey a large piece of information in a controlled environment to a broadcast audience. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, what is a 3-minute video worth? To date, video has been the most effective media we have used since starting the company and our clients who have hired us to produce a Condo Cast have reaped the rewards early on with conversion rates as high as 12 percent." condoDomain anticipates video services for real estate professionals to increase 500 percent-plus in 2007.

Video on the web today is becoming easier, cost effective and more powerful as high-speed Internet connections are more abundant and flash video players are widely accepted on all types of computers and Internet browsers. Real Estate videos are popping up all over the place including popular video websites such as YouTube or Google Video.

condoDomain has produced several lifestyle based Condo Casts ( http://boston.condodomain.com/condocasts.php )for some of the largest developers and onsite sales and marketing firms in Boston, New York, New Jersey, Providence, Florida, Rhode Island and California. These Condo Movies are hosted on condoDomain and are also syndicated to websites like Google Video, Yahoo Video & Brightcove making them more widely viewed by thousands of visitors daily.

www.condoDomain.com is underway another national expansion which will double its size to nearly 70 new condo markets and urban real estate arenas. Through its partnership with www.GlobalCondoCenter.com, condoDomain.com also boasts an international audience to more than 2,200 cities around the world.

Internet market is becoming more and more powerful and video is the premier venue for the moment. condoDomain.com continues to lead the industry in new technologies to market urban condos. For updated information visit The Condo Blog ( www.condoDomain.com/blog ).

About condoDomain.com

condoDomain.com is a privately held, Internet marketing company serving the real estate industry that is dedicated to city living and the condominium lifestyle. Unique to the real estate industry, condoDomain.com is an independent resource, bringing together buyers, brokers and developers of condominiums in one place. Buyers benefit from a comprehensive resource that enables them to research market news, view properties and get relevant information about urban living. Brokers and developers have an additional, premier venue with multimedia options, to promote their properties to a sophisticated, highly targeted audience. Visit www.condoDomain.com to learn more.

condoDomain.com Condo Markets
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Contact:
Huguette Diakabana
Information Management, condoDomain.com
877-852-6636

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SouthData, Inc. of Mount Airy, NC is preparing to launch the first Automated Newsletter Factory exclusively for Property Management Companies and homeowner associations nationwide. Management companies can visit www.southdata.com to order, design and mail their association newsletters.

SouthData is introducing the Automated Newsletter Factory this month at CAI’s 55th National Conference and Expo in Palm Springs, CA. The automated program will go live in June 2006.

The Automated Newsletter Factory offers several online libraries from which to design a newsletter. From newsletter templates to graphic images and a library of articles, users will be able to easily build newsletters that best suit the needs of their associations. After the newsletter is designed, data files can be uploaded and the newsletters will mail within three business days.

The company has received positive responses from management companies coast-to-coast. “We are excited about this program. It has been a long time in the making, and we are expecting this to be a great success,” says John Springthorpe, president of SouthData, Inc.

SouthData is still accepting articles for the online library. Any articles relevant to the property management industry are welcome. Articles may be submitted by visiting www.southdata.com.

For more than twenty years, SouthData has been the leading provider of payment books and billing statements for the property management industry. Today the company is a national document provider for property management, government, medical, healthcare insurance and commercial print markets.

Contact:
Chelli Perry Bruner
SouthData, Inc.
336.783.5938 p
336.789.4143 f
cpbruner@southdata.com
www.southdata.com

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CondoCasts', the new HD movie product highlighting some of most luxurious high-rises in the North East, has officially rolled out its product line through condoDomain.com. Anthony Longo, Founder & CEO of condoDomain.com and now Executive Producer of Virtuale Productions has orchestrated a crew of "artistically talented film makers and post-productions experts," says Longo, to showcase residential real estate.

"As an Internet Media company, we are constantly striving to help real estate professionals market real estate more effectively over the net and for the past year or so we knew video was the next step. Our 'CondoCasts' are compressed and viewable instantly over any high-speed Internet connection and can be downloaded to iPod for further viewing by anyone, buyers and brokers."

The condoDomain.com / Virutale Productions combo has five movies live on the site currently with 10 more in post-production from Los Angeles to Manhattan. One movie in Boston, MA highlights a converted condominium development designed by the world renowned Philippe Starck.

About condoDomain.com

condoDomain.com is a privately held, Internet media company dedicated to city living and the condominium lifestyle. Unique to the real estate industry, condoDomain.com is an independent resource, bringing together buyers, brokers and developers of condominiums in one place. Buyers benefit from a comprehensive resource that enables them to research market news, view properties and get relevant information about urban living. Brokers and developers have an additional, premier venue with multimedia options, to promote their properties to a sophisticated, highly targeted audience. Visit www.condoDomain.com to learn more.

About Virtuale Productions

Virtuale Productions is an Internet based streaming media company concentrating on short movies for local high-end real estate companies.

Both companies are based in Boston, MA with satellite offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, & St. Louis.

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