This web page provides information and links for Foros Real Estate. Comments about the pages are my (Clint Goss's) personal opinon.

Web Sites of Major Realty Chains

• Realtor.Com. An excellent (but somewhat slow) site designed to serve clients of real estate as well as the realtors (brokers) themselves. PageRank: 7
• HomeLife International. Major international real estate brokerage. However, home page is not friendly to search engines. PageRank: 6
• Century 21. Major US-based real estate brokerage. Home page dedicated to dividing the users based on their needs. PageRank: 7
• RE/MAX. Major estate brokerage. Lots of info on the home page, but scrolling is required. PageRank: 7
• ColdWell Banker. Major estate brokerage. Macromedia Flash home page with no information for search engines. PageRank: 7

Real Estate Organizations and Directories

• International Consortium of Real Estate Associations. Don't put everything on the home page! PageRank: 7
• The Real Estate Consortium Terrible site. Unreadable and possibly hard to print. PageRank: 5
• World Realty Consortium Database-driven real estate web sites. A vendor of web sites for real estate agencies. Foros may want to consider their services. PageRank: 4
• Real Estate Directory Too many links on the home page. Difficult to absorb. PageRank: 4

Web Sites with Real Estate Information

This information can be used to provide information on the Foros web site, or as the basis to develop a separate web buisness/site to provide basic real estate information on the Bulgarian market.

• Real Estate ABC. Extensive information for buyers and sellers independent of any broker. PageRank: 7
• Real Estate Library. Extensive information, excellent site design. PageRank: 7
• OurBroker.Com. Comprehensive consumer real estate information site; includes calculators, links to agencies, credit information, etc. PageRank: 6
• IRed.Com. Worldwide digest of real estate news. PageRank: 7
• INMAN Realty News. Very current real estate news with daily bulletins. PageRank: 7
• FDIC Survey of Real Estate Trends. Analysis of the real estate market based on the opinions of real estate evaluators from the major banks. PageRank: 6
• HomeLife Real Estate Trends. Trend information from HomeLife international realty. PageRank: 2
• Realty Times. "Real Estate News and Advice". Home page too large. PageRank: 7

DMOZ Categories

• Buisness: Real Estate General Real Estate category
• Regional: Europe: Bulgaria: Business and Economy: Real Estate Maybe the best for Foros Agency site?
• Business: Real Estate: Associations For Varna Real Estate Association? Do they have a site?

Inktomi Database

• Inktomi Commercial (for pay) database submission to a large database which is used by search engines. Being purchased by Yahoo, and may become less important in the future.

Google Toolbar

• Google Toolbar Browser plug-in that allows direct serarching of the Google database, but also shows the internal Google PageRank of every page visited.

Web Site Designs

• Real Estate Web Awards. List of web sites that have received awards. Valuable, but realize that these awards are given for the "interactive" features of the web site, such as database access and searching. I don't particularly like the web sites that they pick. I think this list may be self-serving.
• Namibia Chamber of Commerce. This site was developed by Clint Goss on a previous IESC project. PageRank: 5
• Winrock. Web site of international development agency. Vera likes the look of their home page, but the home page loads slowly and is not friendly to search engines. Howerver, the pages inside their site look good and are OK for search engines. PageRank: 7

Email comments/questions to clint@goss.com