05.23.08

SecondSpace, which operates the real estate sites ResortScape.com and LandWatch.com properties, has launched Web sites that cater to international second home buyers.

05.22.08

Northwest Innovation sat down with Anil Pereira, SecondSpace’s founder, president and chief executive officer to ask questions about his privately funded startup.

11.30.07

For the second year in a row, SecondSpace has been named to the SI100 list of companies in the "Internet/Web 2.0" category.

09.19.07

"This is part of our effort to expand our market geographically," said Jerry Ray, a spokesman for Jacksonville- based St. Joe. SecondSpace's Internet software also will be used for a new version of St. Joe's Web site, Joe.com, the two companies said.

09.19.07

"Our relationship with SecondSpace will help us to reach highly qualified buyers with the right set of offerings, and build relationships with them from the moment they begin their property search"

09.19.07

"Using information gathered from Second Space, St. Joe will have access to market info previously unavailable through traditional market research"

09.19.07

"Working with SecondSpace will give St. Joe access to consumers using the Web company's search technology, which offers up properties that are both perfect matches and near-matches to a person's query."

09.19.07

"SecondSpace has landed an exclusive multiyear deal to market the properties, homes and resorts of The St. Joe Company, one of the largest real estate developers in Florida."

09.19.07

"Instead of watching the market and responding, the company will study consumer interests as they develop, which will help shape future St. Joe communities."

09.19.07

"JOE will also leverage SecondSpace's patent-pending Lifestyle Search and Discovery platform to match diverse customers quickly and efficiently with lifestyle properties for sale that best meet their needs."

09.19.07

St. Joe Co. on Wednesday said it entered into a multi-year strategic alliance agreement with SecondSpace, Inc., to create web-based marketing and sales platform for JOE's resort, seasonal and rural retreat products.

08.22.07

Lifestyle network of sites such as LandWatch.com that you can submit to. (Slide #12)

08.16.07

Its first two sites, Landwatch and Resortscape are rollouts of a network of lifestyle sites (I explain the business model here ) ... SecondSpace provides a set of traditional sites that the consumer can easily navigate and use based on their particular lifestyle profile ...

08.03.07

It's the kind of semantic service consumer-oriented sites, such as Flickr and Facebook, and vertical search engines, such as SecondSpace, already offer, but enterprises are only now beginning to understand.

07.23.07

Its core technology is a home-grown semantic search engine, which tries to intuit what customers are looking for and gets smarter over time.

07.23.07

Type "Montana lakefront land" into LandWatch.com and 21 results are returned, including 1.15 acres in Kalispell on Cree Lake and .42 acres in Lake County. (There's more than 16,000 parcels for sale on the site representing close to $10 billion.) Similar searches can be performed on ResortScape.com, though that site is geared more towards condos and homes in resorts or planned communities. For example, it allows users to search for properties for sale near golf courses, vineyards or mountain resorts.

07.23.07

Second-home markets are more about lifestyle, Pereira said, with the activities and atmosphere taking priority over the home itself in most cases. So the company started out trying to pull those considerations into its search technology. While on ResortScape.com, for instance, a person looking for "skiing in Vermont" will see a number of property listings in skiing areas of the state, but may also get suggestions for properties near ski resorts in similar areas.

07.23.07

The former Classmates.com CEO said SecondSpace is trying to establish itself as the main destination for people who are looking to buy or already own a second home. He added that the company is already recording $1 million in revenue...

07.23.07

The sites really cater to all the needs a person wants when seeking a perfect second home, such as service providers in the area who can help maintain the second home or appraise it. I also like the fact that you can narrow your interests. For instance, I chose "active adult" in "North America" seeking "golf" properties for $470,000 and up, with 5 bedrooms, etc. There are some 40 million people in the U.S. who own a second home, whether it's a time share, or vacation home, or just property. So, clearly there should be demand for such a site.

07.23.07

Both sites are pretty well done. I like the niche-focus and the attraction that it can give to the specific demographic that they’re catering to.

07.23.07

Once data on a particular consumer populates, the vertical search engine is not only applicable to real estate, it can be used by the same consumer for flights into Salt Lake City, for fishing and camping in the summer, for Park City night life. SecondSpace plans to build out new topical sites - i.e. fishing - catering to consumer lifestyle that will complement Resortscape and Landwatch, and its brethren.

06.29.07

06.29.07