Brown Harris Stevens goes 'live'.Brown Harris Harris, Scotland: see Lewis and Harris. Stevens Stevens, family of U.S. inventors. John Stevens, 1749–1838, b. New York City, was graduated from King's College (now Columbia Univ.) in 1768. announced the launch of the first "live" Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the site for the residential real estate marketplace, located at BrownHarrisStevens.com. The newly designed and technologically advanced site offers brokers and consumers updated listings every six seconds for the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. market, with plans for the Hamptons and Palm Beach, Fla. markets underway. BrownHarrisStevens.com makes the entire real estate market, including Brown Harris Stevens' exclusive listings, available to consumers and brokers at the touch of a button. This level of information has never before been available in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Through this new site, Brown Harris Stevens will immediately identify trends within the marketplace and make this information available to visitors on the home page as they first log on. The site provides users with extensive apartment and building details, professional photography, 3-D model floor plans with 180[degrees] mobility, (enabling the viewer to move through the apartment, view window and closet placement and establish a feel for the space,) search options in 40 neighborhoods and 18 zip-codes, exact matches to a search, close marches to a search and similar listings available. The new website can be immediately translated into five languages, with options for 15 other languages spoken by Brown Harris Stevens' brokers in an effort to efficiently service foreign visitors and clients. The site offers translation of the home page and broker biographies, which immediately direct the site visitor to the brokers who speak their language. The languages will include Arable, Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, , Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian and Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. . "With the Internet as the main source for information today, Brown Harris Stevens saw the need in the market to provide consumers with the most technologically advanced tools and search engines," said Arthur W. Zeckendorf, co-chairman of Brown Harris Stevens. "Our technology platform and new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. site is the most sophisticated within the industry--allowing our senior managers and brokers to efficiently and effectively grow our business." "By providing the marketplace with one central location for all Manhattan residential listings and information, we feel that the public will be able to log on and be provided with full market information, at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. ," said Jim Cahill, executive vice president and chief information and technology officer with Terra Holdings, the parent company of Brown Harris Stevens. "Through the use of the Internet, buyers and sellers are more educated than ever and have become 'experts' in their particular market search." "Our job as the leading residential real estate firm on the east coast is to provide total information to prospective buyers and sellers, further enabling them to make informed decisions," added Hall F. Willkie, president of Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales. "The website is yet an additional medium that positively differentiates us from other firms. No other residential firm can match our ability and willingness to provide detailed listing information on over 25,000 Manhattan luxury residences." |
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