October 24 , 2006

Inman News

Point2 Technoligies Inc. has introduced a real estate agent directory that is sorted by cities and neighborhoods and associated with property listings. The new tool is integrated with the real estate tech company's property-search portal.

The new tool allows consumers in 82 countries to locate and review agents in their area, according to a company announcement.

"Consumers are now able to search for agents by cities and neighborhoods they are interested in. This type of national search doesn't exist anywhere else today," said Brendan King, chief operating officer for Point2 Technologies, in a statement. The agent directory only displays agents who "have actually listed, sold listings or are local experts," according to the announcement.

The company also announced that its Point2Homes.com search site now allows users to view the number of listings their property search criteria will return before they submit the terms to the search engine.

Traffic on Point2Homes.com draws an average 600,000 to 800,000 unique visitors each month, the company announced.

An estimated 500 to 800 new listings are added to that site each day, the company announced. Listings at the site are aggregated from the company's own technology platforms and are not drawn from the MLS or scraped from third-party sites, the company noted. The company's listings are also distributed to such sites as Google Base, Yahoo! Classifieds, Trulia, Oodle, LiveDeal, Propsmart and Edgeio, among others.