News Alert! Home Junction announces you can now get their popular SpatialMatch Lifestyle Search App for FREE

Sometimes I think we tend to forget that the incredible allure of the Internet is that it offers so many items for no cost at all.

You can search for free, listen to music for free, watch funny videos for free, play games for free, talk to your friends for free, read the news for free, etc. and etc.

Then there are all the plug-ins and widgets and what-nots you can add to your site for free.

With all this free stuff, the real challenge is in choosing which feature to download and which to ignore. Because many of the items turn out to be worthless or something you never, ever use.

When it comes to real estate, there is one absolutely incredible APP now available for NO COST that you must add to your site.

That is the SpatialMatch Lifestyle and Neighborhood search engine we’ve talked about in this space many times. The powers-that-be at parent company Home Junction, Inc. are now offering this part of their array of real estate products for FREE.

That’s right. Free. Zip. Nada.

“This is a gift back to the real estate community for all of our success,” said Grant Gould, VP Marketing. “SpatialMatch is an invaluable nationwide data widget that instantly helps brokers and agents compete online. There is no reason in the world a broker or agent would not add this to their site.”

He’s right. This is not some widget that tells you the time in Tokyo.

It’s a powerful neighborhood database with hundreds of layers of information covering EVERYTHING a buyer would want to know about where they are considering buying a home.

The FREE APP, which is map-based with a hip design includes:

Schools – Stores – Restaurants – Gold Courses – Transportation – Hotels – Amenities – Recent Home Sales – New Construction – Places of Worship – Boundaries – Key Locations and more.

Users can save their searches, email their searches and post onto Facebook.

Bottom line – you can easily embed thousands of relevant hyper-local data points about your community onto your website, for that great price we all know and love – FREE.

Why would you do this?

a) Attract Buyers – you can not only claim you have local knowledge, but you can back it up by showing buyers you have the most hyper-local database of local information for your market on your web site.

Market  SpatialMatch in all your promotions to generate leads.

b) Attract Sellers – show them how you have the most sophisticated hyper-local software available to market their home to buyers. You can use it to show buyers how the seller’s home is located in a prime location for all the amenities they enjoy whether it’s yoga, golf, jogging, swimming, reading, whatever.

“Hmmm” you might be thinking. This huge data widget is now free. There’s got to be a catch. Is Home Junction going to hijack my computer and bombard it with pop-ups of people dancing  madly.

Yes, there is a catch. In the spirit of full disclosure, we’ll tell you what it is.

When you add the SpatialMatch lifestyle and neighborhood data widget to your site, at some point we anticipate you will also want to add our IDX search; a fantastic, robust MLS database that is integrated into SpatialMatch so you can show homes for sale AND amenities right next to each other.

“We believe when Realtors use and like the SpatialMatch product, they will consider adding our IDX product as well, so we will get the investment back on our free offering,” Gould said. “Providing the IDX and lifestyle search engine together creates a  very powerful addition to any real estate web site.”

Or perhaps you will consider using our WordPress for Realtors product offered at HJWebsites.com. SpatialMatch is a free plug-in there as well.

“We’ve heard time and time again from the real estate community how difficult it is to compete with the big portals when it comes to data,” Gould said. “This gift of the super hyper-local SpatialMatch data widget gives them the tools to provide a ton of data for their customers, just like the portals. And now it’s free.”

As we said earlier – there are free brainless widgets available out there that can put a moustache on your cat or there are free downloads you can use to make money and give yourself an incredible, competitive edge in your particular area.

Deciding to embed the free SpatialMatch data widget on your site is the no-brainer.

To get started, go to FreeLifestyleSearch.com