Since our beta launch in May, we have received tremendous valuable feedback from RealUp members. Our mission is to listen to what our members are saying so we can continuously update and enhance our site to include all of the tools, services and data that you need.
With that being said, I am proud to announce the long awaited release of the Advanced Property Search!
Our team has been working diligently to create advanced search options that are capable of searching by every factor and detail that YOU our valued members have been asking for. Our new property search is smart; type in search criteria and it remembers your search fields even after your results are shown.
Not only that, but our search uses cookies (not chocolate chip) to remember your last search criteria even after you have navigated away from our site! Now that’s a smart cookie!
Our new advanced search allows you to be as broad or narrow in your search as you would like. From a nationwide property search of all property types to a specific property type, size, price, keyword and zip code, you can do it with the new RealUp property search!
Maybe you want to search by multiple zip codes or multiple cities or even by county – not a problem! Just use comma separated terms, enter as many as you want and instantly see search results listed and pin pointed on an interactive Google Map.
Are the search results not sorted in the way you would like? We have taken care of that too! Simply choose your method of sorting from price, date, size, type and more to customize the results to your preferences.
New Advanced Search Features:
Search For Sale, For Lease or Both
Select All property types with one click
Search only properties with photos and/or price
State and county search options
Multiple locations - enter multiple counties, cities, zip codes
Keywords - View properties based on search terms
Search properties by price range or lease range
Search properties by building size, lot size, and/or space available
Clear all search fields with one click
Search fields remember last search criteria
Hide advanced search options
Sort results by last updated, price, name, location, size
The RealUp advanced search will absolutely save you valuable time and money. No more sifting through hundreds of broad search results – you can use our free nationwide advanced search to quickly find the exact properties that you are looking for!
I cannot say enough good things about our new search – you need to try it out for yourself! Click here to get started on your new search and please let us know what you think. We are always looking for ways to improve and help make RealUp YOUR comprehensive commercial real estate website.
Some of you may have noticed that you were unable to sign in to your RealUp account or create a new membership on Monday or Tuesday of this week. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and we want to assure you that this was a temporary issue and everything is up and running smoothly again.
The issue was not a security breach but rather a hardware problem dealing with our router/firewall that developed late Sunday evening. Our team was working tirelessly the past two days in order to get things up and running seamlessly again. The good news is that there was no loss of data and all of the issues have been resolved which has resulted in improved reliability and security.
This outage was caused by the failure of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) which, naturally, interupted the power causing the router/firewall to reset and lock down. This resulted in blocking SSL connections preventing users from signing in or joining. While this issue was being resolved the site was completely offline for approximately 3 hours. This is still above 99% monthly uptime but below our goal of 99.9% reliability.
Again, we are very sorry for the inconvenience and we want to assure you that the website is up and running more seamlessly than ever. We do not expect anything like this to happen again in the foreseeable future. RealUp is still officially in "beta" development and with any technology these problems can happen. However, we strive to catch these issues in advance and regret this accident. Again, this was a temporary hardware issue and there was no data loss nor security breach.
We greatly appreciate your patience and continued support of RealUp.
In most every profession or industry including commercial real estate, time is money. In literal terms, the longer a property sits on the market the more money is typically spent and lost. As time goes on, money on advertising increases and the property value may decrease resulting in price reductions and lower commissions. Hence, "time is money".
RealUp recognizes the reality of this classic idiom. That’s why we have decided to help commercial real estate professionals save both time and money!
Not only does RealUp offer free services and industry data but we will also have the technical capability to upload all of your property information for you! So, if you want maximum exposure for your listings and just have the time to enter them on yet another commercial real estate listing site…never fear, RealUp is here!
Whether you have 1 property or 10,000 properties our technically savvy team will upload your property listings onto RealUp for you! If saving time is not enough incentive for you to get your properties on RealUp, what if we save you money as well? At RealUp, we will upload all of your property listings for you completely free with absolutely no cost or obligation.
Are you a part of a brokerage or agency and want all of your team's listings uploaded? No problem – our advanced tech team will upload all of your company's listings and even create customized user and administrative accounts at no charge.
Are you worried about the format of your listing data? Don't worry, we have that covered too. We can take your listing and agent data in any format that you provide us. From FTP sites, XML listing feeds and Excel spreadsheets to uploading the data directly from your personal website and more – we will do all the work for you.
We know your time is money...using RealUp to market your commercial properties will save you both.
Sound too good to be true? Contact us to get started now.
On Tuesday, August 25, 2009 we sent out a customer survey to a random 1,760 of our active members using SurveyMonkey.
Only active members were chosen for the survey because some of the questions included asked the respondents to rank the current website features and services that only active members would be able to knowledgably answer.
Out of this group, 155 members completed the survey with their valuable thoughts and feedback. After compiling and analyzing the data from the survey, we have learned a lot.
Here are a few of the key points that we came away with:
Our customer service is outstanding; our users value the ability to be able to contact us and receive help via email and phone. This was the service that our members ranked as having the highest satisfaction value. We need to continue to go above and beyond when reaching out and assisting our customers.
We need special offers and recognition for our broker/agent members; brokers/agents make up the majority of our user database (59.3%). We need to focus on appealing to them in particular when developing new features and services. Special advantages and recognition for brokers/agents who use our site would help to demonstrate their value to RealUp.
Our investment in recent sales data is paying off; recent sales was ranked as the most important feature/service to our users with 83.7% ranking it as "important" or "very important". Good news for us, 52.1% were either "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with the existing sale data that we currently provide to them for free. Our investment in recent sales will continue to benefit us and our users.
We did receive a lot of feedback from our members that they would be very interested in seeing the results of our survey. Although we cannot reveal everything, here are a few interesting facts:
With the highest percentage, 30.9% of respondents were between the ages of 45 and 54 followed by 22.4% between the ages of 55 and 64
71.3% of respondents were male while 28.7% were female
57% were college graduates and 23.2% had advanced degrees
23.7% make between $50,000 and $100,000 a year followed by 23.4% who make between $100,000 and $150,000
61.9% are members of the NAR, 38.1% are members of the ICSC and 22.6% are members of the CCIM Insitute
The good news is RealUp is already reaching out to the most popular associations – we officially launched our beta site at the ICSC Convention this past May, we are a sponsor of the CCIM & IREM Success Series in October.
We also got a lot of valuable feedback and suggestions from the two open-ended questions in the survey. Here are a few of our personal favorites:
"Your Site's appearance is very professional"
"Concise, easy to understand and fast"
"Your site did an EXCELLENT job ... very easy to use"
"Keep up the great work!"
"I like the website and will continue to use it"
"Overall…I would give RealUp.com an A"
Do you want to see what these satisfied customers are raving about? Check us out for yourself at www.RealUp.com.
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Some of you may have noticed that you were unable to sign in to your RealUp account or create a new membership on Monday or Tuesday of this week. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and we want to assure you that this was a temporary issue and everything is up and running smoothly again. 
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