We're proud to announce that Condo Metropolis has a brand new look! After 9 years in the business, our original condo website, which was cutting edge at the time, had begun to show its age, and so we decided it was time for a facelift. The new site still features free access to the Orlando Multiple Listing System (MLS) where you can get up to-the-minute information on the entire Orlando real estate inventory. The site also allows to to conduct unlimited custom searches, save those searches, [...]
Half a million dollars worth of advertising doesn't go a long way these days, especially in New York. That's the price tag on a brand new Manhattan marketing campain undertaken by Orlando real estate brokerage, Condo Metropolis this month. The larger than life campaign is designed to co-incide with the company's launch into the New York market in the second quarter of 2010. Marcus Burke, founder and broker for Condo Metropolis LLC believes that spent in the right places, even a [...]
Condo Metropolis is launching a new Orlando real estate site and blog aimed at a different segment of the buying population - single family home buyers. Whereas CondoMetropolis.com specializes in Orlando Condo sales, the new site will provide Orlando home buyers with information on a wider segment of the market. "CondoMetropolis has been incredibly successful given the fact that we launched in the middle of an incredibly soft market - and are specializing in the area of the market that was[...]
Some of you may have noticed a new "widget" on the top right hand side of the blog which displays current Orlando listings. Click on it and it will take you directly to our MLS search engine. And if you have those cool GI Joe eagle eyes that move from side to side you might even have noticed an extra row of tabs above our banner - which correspond to the six new pages we've just launched, designed to help you locate more of the information you need. They are: Timeshare vs. Condos Moving to [...]
It's been a whole year since Condo Metropolis opened its online condo doors. And despite a slower than normal market, the site has received many thousands of visitors, and equiries are received daily concerning the Orlando condo scene. "Orlando Condo buyers just love having a site that's dedicated to condominiums," said Marcus Burke, company founder. "We're the only place in town that lists all the condo inventory and our news blog covers all the latest condo gossip. People [...]
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CondoMetropolis.com adds MLS access to website: Creates largest e-roof for Orlando condo shoppers. Orlando, Fla. June 19, 2007: Condo Metropolis has added access to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) to it's ever growing list of condo-friendly tools at CondoMetropolis.com. The condo website has allowed access to its own proprietary developer database since its launch in December 2006, but the company's founders felt that MLS access was necessary [...]
Ouch! We just got posh'd. It sounds like something that might happen at a Spice Girls' wedding - but I'm told it's actually a good thing. Shaun McLane has started a new site called Posh'd.com aimed at showcasing the country's best real estate sites. And he picked us as one of the opening sites... Awww... thanks Shawn - we love you too! In the site's About Us section Shawn explains: "Ever visit other Real Estate websites for inspiration? Ever notice how many of them are VERY similar? We [...]
After just 3 months since the launch of Condo Metropolis, the Orlando online condo company has rocketed to the first page of Google's search results. CondoMetropolis.com currently ranks #9 out of about 3.3 million results. The MSN and AOL search engines also return Condo Metropolis as the #9 result. The results are not paid for but are considered organic, "a result of key word optimization and relevant content." We're very pleased, said Marcus Burke, founder of the Condo Metropolis. High [...]
Letters to the Editor: Dear Editor: Zillow's latest online move was predictable and fully anticipated by many. And yet there are those who continue to believe that Zillow, whose founders shook up and virtually destroyed the traditional travel industry model with Expedia, will never succeed in dismantling the much more powerful real estate industry. Think Zillow can't do it? Don't bet on it. Zillow.com's real estate "divide and conquer" strategy couldn't have been launched at a better time. [...]
If you check out the Orlando Sentinel Homes Sections on Sunday (there are now about 142 Homes sections) the only condos you'll find are the ones that paid to be there. My genius math friends refer to this as a skewed sample, meaning that it is not representative of the whole story. Try looking online instead and, well, it's a mess. Theoretically, you could browse each developer website - assuming you could find them all, but expect to be busy until the second coming of Christ - because it's no[...]