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Local MLS Listing Information is Displayed Directly Onto Realtor Mary Trimble's Website with the Help of IDX Broker

Easy-to-use IDX search tools speed up and simplify the online property search process, saving both real estate professionals and their clients time and hassle.

Posted: Friday, May 07, 2010 at 2:01 PM CDT

Eugene, OR -- (SBWire) -- 05/07/2010 -- Mary Trimble with Coastal Realty has chosen to employ IDX, Inc. to give the search functionality of her website a sense of modernization and advancement, with the addition of their highly customizable primary product, IDX Broker. This unique and innovative Internet Data Exchange (IDX) technology has the ability to extract raw listing data from the Alaska MLS (AKMLS), and formats the information onto Trimble's website, to be displayed to potential home buyers as though it is seamlessly integrated. Home seekers in Homer, Alaska and its surrounding areas will now have access to a plethora of the most current property listings and details on the market, and all from the convenience of one individual website.

Five comprehensive and informational search functionalities, including: basic, advanced, map, address and listing ID, enable potential home buyers to search each and every aspect and detail they could ever imagine and would want to consider before purchasing a new property. Browsing options include everything from the number of rooms, to the heating/ cooling system, to the amount of storage space, and even the school district in which the property is located, helping to narrow their results, and what they truly want and need out of a new home, in efforts to find their perfect property. Each listings page provides convenient and user-friendly links to email property details, contact the listing agent for more information, take a virtual tour, schedule a showing, print a flyer, view large photo galleries, pinpoint their chosen property on an interactive Google Map and even calculate probable mortgage payments, creating a nearly effortless online real estate search experience.

The ability to personalize and edit the look, layout, design, format and available search options, is accessible to Trimble through her administrative login page, provided by this custom IDX solution. It is here that she not only has the ability to receive daily email updates, coming directly from the AKMLS, regarding property additions and removals, as well as price increase and decreases, but Trimble also has the capabilities to create custom XML codes and dynamic title tags, increasing her listings visibility, along with their chances of syndication to popular real estate search engines, such as: RSS Feed, Google Base, Zillow and Truila, to name a few.

About Mary Trimble
Mary Trimble states, “Coastal Realty knows how important the right tools are to navigating the Homer real estate market. Coastal Realty is a great place to start your adventure. We have two offices, conveniently located in both Homer and Anchor Point to help you find exactly the right piece of Homer Alaska Real Estate-including the communities of Anchor Point, Kenai peninsula and more.”

About IDX, Inc.
Based in Eugene, Oregon, IDX Inc. is nationally known as a leading provider of real estate search applications. IDX, Inc. actively manages over $1 trillion worth of active listings data from over 340 Multiple Listings Services (MLS). IDX Broker is IDX, Inc.’s principle real estate software utility and myAgent IDX is its principle mobile application available for the iPhone. The easy to manage and customizable software helps real estate professionals display home listing data from their multiple listing service (MLS) on their individual and/or office websites. For more information on all the services provided by IDX, Inc. please visit http://www.idxbroker.com.