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Guides, updates and tips for selling new construction.
Step-by-step guides to every New Home Buddy tool, what’s new in your portal, and advice from the new home world.
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New Home Buddy launches national expansion plan for agents and builders
New construction search, exclusive builder incentives and branded lead capture, built around agents, in more markets.
How to use Pick Homes
Handpick specific homes and send your client a curated list instead of a filtered search.
A better way to search by location
Filter by any mix of cities, ZIP codes and counties, the way the MLS does it.
Introducing the New Home Buddy Sales Portal
A command center for builder leadership: every lead, rep and click free, plus market data and predictions with NHB Sales Portal Pro.
Buyer Needs Requests are live, plus cleaner lists and smarter filters
Send buyer needs straight to builders, plus cleaner lists, simpler incentive filters, a multi-select Builder filter and better link previews.
How to use Buyer Needs Requests
Send your buyer’s wish list straight to the builders you choose, and get their matching homes back in one inbox.
A fresh new look, plus powerful new tools
A redesigned portal with Light and Dark Mode, a new Client Details page, QR codes for your Personal Link and clearer incentives.
Smarter searches, acre lot filters, and events
New clients get a Client Search automatically, plus Last Checked dates, half-acre and one-acre lot filters, and Events in every market.
Find new construction homes on half-acre and one-acre lots in Texas
Use the Half Acre Lots and One Acre Lots filters to find new homes on bigger lots.
How to list your events on New Home Buddy
Submit your builder event once from the Sales Portal, and after a quick review we promote it to thousands of agents.
The map and lead features you’ve been waiting for
Clear Filters, a clearer Draw tool, clean shared searches, favorite alerts and See All Images.
Market selection is live in your Agent Portal
Choose your markets, and your map and Personal Link start there.
Smarter lead tracking, better filters, and easier signups
See views, clicks, favorites and leads for every Lead Gen Search, filters grouped under More, and a sign-up that keeps your account.
Connections, a faster Create Search, and client activity
Builder Connections launch, Quick Notify, a 3-step Save Search, a client activity feed and clearer copy-link buttons.
The agent’s guide to Builder Connections
Pick the builder reps you like working with. They become your contact on the homes they can sell, and your buyer still only ever sees you.
How to create a client and Client Search
Add a client and New Home Buddy builds their Client Search for you, branded to you, so you see what they view, favorite and tour.
How to share an individual home
Send one home with a link branded to you, and capture the lead if they sign up.
Client notes and clearer language in your portal
Keep private notes on every client, plus clearer names across the portal.
Empire Communities, and more ways to capture leads
Empire Communities joins in San Antonio and Austin, plus sign-up prompts after 90 seconds and on favorites.
David Weekley Homes, lead capture, and better email alerts
David Weekley Homes is live, Davidson and Scott Felder move to data feeds, and everyone who signs up on your links becomes a lead.
How to use Lead Gen Searches
Share a set of new homes that fits a niche, and turn the people who sign up into leads.
How to create your Personal Link
One free link to new construction homes, with only your name and contact info on them.
Century Communities, new filters, and better client emails
Century Communities is live, plus Builder Paid Closing Costs and Interest Rate filters, and emails that show which homes your clients look at.
A real estate agent’s guide to negotiating new home prices
Read the market, know the builder’s contract, start with the real numbers, and know what you can ask for besides price.
Top 5 tips to help agents sell new construction homes
Know builder contracts, plan financing early, get registered on day one, know how the builder pays you, and watch inventory.
What are new construction homes?
A new construction home is one where the buyer is the first person to live in it. The kinds, and talking points for your buyers.No posts here yet.
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