US 2012/0059737 A1 · DISTRESSED PROPERTIES MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD

Abstract

A computerized system and method is presented that allows selling agents to market a listing agent's distressed property listings even though the selling agents work for a different broker than the listing agent. The owner of the property may restrict the selling agents that may market their property. In one embodiment, the owner selects a qualified lender, and the pool of selling agents who may market that property is limited to selling agents who are associated in the computerized system with the qualified lender. The system allows selling agents to schedule open houses for distressed properties listed by the listing agent, with the system preventing two selling agents from scheduling open houses that conflict with one another. The system tracks the marketing activity of agents, which can be used to suggest listing agents to owners, or to restrict the ability of selling agents to market properties.

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Dependent claims

A server computer comprising:

a) a processor that processes programming instructions;
b) non-transitory computer readable memory containing database programming to manage a database, wherein the data in the database is stored on a non-transitory computer readable memory and is transformed during operation by the database programming, the database containing:
i) a real estate property record containing information about a distressed property owned by an owner,
ii) a listing agent record containing information about a listing agent hired to sell the distressed property, and
iii) selling agent records containing information about selling agents willing to help market properties, wherein the selling agents and the listing agent work for different real estate brokers;
c) non-transitory computer readable memory containing an agent interface programming for creating an agent interface for agents associated with the selling agent records, the agent interface presenting a list of real estate property information available for marketing including the distressed property.

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A computer implemented method of marketing distressed properties comprising:

a) generating an owner interface at a server computer, the owner interface being displayed on a first computing device to an owner of a distressed property, the owner interface providing:
i) a list of listing agents qualified to list the distressed property, wherein the owner can select a particular listing agent to list the distressed property, and
ii) an indication of a qualified lender;
b) generating a listing agent interface at the server computer, the listing agent interface being displayed on a second computing device to the particular listing agent selected by the owner, the listing agent interface providing:
i) an input to indicate that the distressed property is available to be marketed by a plurality of selling agents;
c) generating a selling agent interface at the server computer, the selling agent interface being displayed on a third computing device, the selling agent interface displaying the distressed property as available for marketing to a first subset of selling agents that are associated with the qualified lender in a database operating on the server computer and not displayed as available for marketing to a second subset of selling agents that are not associated with the qualified lender in the database.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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