The Real Estate Board of New York announced it would launch its long-in-the-works web portal this Friday. The site, ResidentialNYC.com, will be free and feature sales and rental listings from participating REBNY brokerages. The idea is to offer a centralized, one-stop shop for prospective renters and buyers so they don’t have to jump from one brokerage’s website to another. The portal’s not necessarily going to fulfill the one-stop goal, though: The city’s two biggest residential brokerages, Corcoran and Elliman, reportedly decided against participating in the public listings service. Think this’ll fly if the big C and E aren’t joining the party? Would you use it?
REBNY Readies Web Portal–Where’s Corcoran & Elliman? [NY Observer]
REBNY to Launch Free Web Portal [Real Deal]