Roost - An Amazing New Search Tool

Online real estate search is an evolving game these days.  There are for sale by owner companies, MLSs, brokerages, and indpenedent companies all vying for the homebuyer's attention.

Specifically many of the indpenedent companies have sprouted over the past few years.  They are known mostly as "listing syndication websites" because they take data that brokers give them and push them out.  Trulia, Zillow, even Craigslist are just a few examples.

However, all of them have certain flaws.  The primary item being that an agent or their broker must push their listings out to these sites for them to appear.  The truth is that at the current time very few agents are doing this, and the ones that are probably do because their company has setup a transfer system.  This means that these sites have few listings overall.

This brings up the question, why would someone visit one of these sites if they don't have all the listings?  Homebuyers want to see as many options as possible.

Roost.com was born to fix this problem.  Instead of waiting for agents to send them data, they pull the data from the local MLS by working with local brokers.  This means they have many more listings.

River City Real Estate has been partnered with Roost since almost their launch around a year ago.

Media outlets around the country have taken notice of this innovative system.  The Wall St. Journal, BusinessWeek, and Washington Post have all featured articles recommending Roost's service.  

But it's not just these media companies that have lauded the service.  Families are taking notice as well including one family that moved to St. Louis from Tulsa, OK as part of a relocation.  They found Roost's website and began looking for listings.  Because of Roost's powerful system, they were connected immediately with one of our team members.  The process was so rewarding for them that they chose to avoid using the relocation agent and instead use the team at River City and agent Ronna Ragusa.  

Without Roost's service River City Real Estate wouldn't have had the opportunity to work with them. 

We really appreciate our partnership with Roost and feel their service offers homebuyers around the country the option to find homes with just a few clicks.  So if you're in St. Louis and thinking about moving to an alternative location make sure to check them out!