IN THE NEWS: New Home Alert Inc announces launch of website for Ottawa home buyers

Posted by admin | August 5th, 2010
buying a new home ottawa, New Homes Ottawa, Ottawa builders, ottawa home buyers, ottawa real estate, search engine for new homes | No Comments »

OTTAWA, ONTARIO –  New Home Alert Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of its website for Ottawa home buyers.  New Home Alert (www.newhomealert.ca) is Ottawa’s leading free search engine for new homes, filling an important void in the local real estate market that websites such as MLS® and Grapevine do not.  The website offers the largest selection of local builders from Ottawa and Gatineau, with more than 150 new residential developments and 2,500 floor plans to view.

New Home Alert creates a positive and enhanced house hunting experience for home buyers with easy to navigate content via images and videos.  The site also allows users to search for immediate occupancies and energy-efficient homes across the Ottawa-Gatineau region.   With regularly refreshed content, home buyers can also benefit from email alerts on their favorite builders and models.

With more than 85% of home buyers now using the web to start their home buying process, “this tool is a great resource for local home buyers to make an informed decision about the most important purchase of their lives”, says CEO Sébastien Lessard.  He adds that “There are many advantages to buying a new home, and we felt it was time for home buyers to quickly find the full range of options in our local new home market”.

John Corvinelli, President of long-time local builder Corvinelli Homes, confirms that “having my listings on New Home Alert has increased my number of sales”.   He continues by saying that “the search engine is having a positive impact on the new home industry in Ottawa, generating more leads for home builders. Collectively, we are in a much better position to compete with the resale market than individually”.

About New Home Alert Inc.

New Home Alert is a local company established by 3 entrepreneurs to fill an important void in the Ottawa real estate market. Offering thousands of listings, it is the leading search engine for new homes.
New Home Alert’s goal is to be the #1 resource for local home buyers and the most forward thinking form of media for the new home industry.  Proud to create a positive new home hunting experience, New Home Alert provides home buyers engaging content.
With promotional opportunities within its platform, New Home Alert also assists local builders and businesses to promote their products and services to home buyers in a creative and engaging new form of media: videos, video blogs and social media releases.

Contact Information:
Gen Tremblay - President
New Home Alert Inc.
www.newhomealert.ca
613.858.7298
gen@nha.ca

Franchising opportunities available.

Buying a new home brings out the designer in you!

Posted by admin | July 12th, 2010
Buying a new home, buying a new home ottawa, buying new homes, choosing finishes, Custom Home Interiors, interior decorating, interior decorator, interior decorators Ottawa, interior design, interior designers Ottawa, New Home Alert | 1 Comment »

Hi - Seb here (CEO of New Home Alert).  One of the most exciting things about buying a new home is being able to personalize the core design elements of your home: the exterior finishes, the kitchen cabinets, the floors, the bathroom tiles, and so on. With all of the TV shows and magazines dedicated to interior design, most of us are inspired to become amateur interior designers, right?

My business partner Gen is building a custom home in Ottawa, and she’s in the process of choosing the finishes with her home builder. Yesterday at our business meeting, we spent the first hour exchanging ideas on the design of her new kitchen. We probably could have spent another 3 hours on the topic, going through the dozens of magazines she had on kitchen design ideas, but duty called!

Every future home buyer will have to go through this process of choosing finishes, and we know the list of finishes and options can be quite daunting. Because of this, New Home Alert is very excited to introduce a web video series dedicated to educating future home buyers with tips and advice for choosing the finishes of your new home. Our interior design series will feature a young and dynamic Ottawa company - Custom Home Interiors (CHI), who has in fact become a resource of choice for Gen in her new home buying process.

Custom Home Interiors is the ideal resource to help us create these web episodes, since they already work with Ottawa home builders and understand the new home buying process. You can look for episodes to start airing soon on www.newhomealert.ca, or follow us on Twitter or join our Facebook Fan page, where our episodes will be posted as we release them.

I look forward to presenting to all of you the great team at Custom Home Interiors and to get your feedback and suggestions on topics you’d like us to explore.

Oh, and one last thing. I hope this blog posting inspires Gen to start blogging about her own home building experience… What are you waiting for Gen?