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It has been a busy week at Placester with regards to fixing issues. The following changes were made to the Hosted Network (sites hosted on placester.net). These changes will be deployed to the WordPress.org site in the coming weeks. If you are a partner and self-hosting the premium themes, contact the partner team to get an updated set of themes.

Buying a home can be an overwhelming process. From financing to negotiating to closing, there are a lot of moving pieces that can leave homebuyers bewildered.

A real estate agent can help guide you through each step of the buying process, offering sound advice along the way. By working with a professional agent who knows the ins and outs of the real estate industry, you’ll not only end up with a great home, but you’ll also walk away with a great experience.

Sure, the idea of owning a vacation home in Bermuda or the south of France sounds wonderful. But buying a vacation home outside the country is a lot different from buying one domestically. Here are a few things to remember.

Placester, a real estate marketing platform that connects Realtors with customers through agent websites and an expansive publisher network, today announced a nationwide partnership with Cox Media Group (CMG) to power digital real estate sections for eight CMG properties, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC.com) and Austin American-Statesman (Statesman.com)

So you’ve found the right apartment, in the right neighborhood, at the right price. Good for you! But the challenges of renting don’t end there. Here are a few more things to keep in mind.

Apple’s misstep with Apple Maps shows that even the biggest and best companies can lose sight of who they are and what they’re good at.

A couple days ago, a partner asked me how many shortcodes do sites typically have. The reason he asked was that he needed to create 30 different city listings pages and didn’t want to have to create 30 sets of Search Form and Search Listings shortcodes. Luckily I was able to tell him he could do all 30 with a single set of those shortcodes, rather than 30. It all comes down to applying pl_filters. To learn more, watch the video, or read on below.

Placester has announced a major price reduction for its real estate website and marketing platform. Previously priced at $45 per month, Placester’s agent websites will now start at $10 per month, making Placester the most affordable website product on the market.

One of the questions I am often asked is if we have a test feed for development partners who don’t have their own MLS feed. The answer is that you can easily create one on your own. The key is to login to placester.com and create a few listings. Then from the Your Profile menu at the top right, choose API Keys, copy your key and paste it into the Placester plugin. Thats it. Once the feed is created, you can reuse it across all of your development sites. Go ahead and watch the video for a complete walkthrough.

Placester, a marketing platform that fuses technology and design to dramatically improve the home buying process for consumers, brokers, and agents, today announced the launch of Placester Leads. With Leads, Placester continues to deliver on its promise of affordable, turnkey marketing-automation by providing a sophisticated lead management solution that goes beyond generating new business. Now, agents, brokers, and teams of any size have access to the tools that ensure key client relationships, and future prospects always remain in focus.

Placester is a secure way to manage and discover real estate. We allow any property owner, manager, real estate agency, or service provider to easily distribute listings data to anyone. Once shared through Placester, this data is freely available to anyone the provider chooses. Let us worry about data types, compatibilities, uptime, and all the other headaches associated with sharing and collecting listing data—we do it all. For free.

Placester has announced the release of its brand new website and marketing platform for real estate brokers. The new broker platform streamlines the online marketing experience for brokers and adds several features, including multi-site management, lead management, and premium support.