Review: Obares.com

Obares.com is a website which offers visitors the chance to buy or sell a home. Specifically, it helps people, and I quote, 'sell your home or buy your dream home the FSBO (For Sale By Owner)'. But its not a simple 'classified ad' type site - it also provides users with resources to help them through the process of buying a new home or selling theirs. I would classify the site in the 'useful services' category, which also has an element of 'uniqueness'. There are other sites out there which allow listings of homes, but I don't expect many (if any in fact) provide a complete service like Obares.com does - they help buyers and sellers by providing useful resources, they help find real estate agents for sellers and they even help finance buyers' loans in some cases!

The site itself is very good. It is comprehensive, easy-to-use and is awash with features to make visitors experiences' smooth and enjoyable.

Lets begin with the homepage: I was drawn straight away to the map. It is very clear, contains all the states and best of all is 'clickable'. You may think this would be expected on a site of this kind, but its not always found. Secondly, there is a search box below the navigation bar, so if you want to browse the listings by city or zip code instead of state, you can do it very easily. For example, search for New York and straight away you are taken to the profile page of New York. What I also like is the fact that on the profile page you can see stats about the city you've searched for; this is by no means vital but its a very nice touch.

On a whole the website should be given a lot of praise. Mainly because it is comprehensive and is filled with good content, but also because it is so easy to use. True, design wise its nothing special, but perhaps if it had a unique design it wouldn't be so easy to use! But there is a downside - I live in the UK so unless I decide to move to the US soon I won't be able to fully appreciate everything the site has to offer. But it was definitely worth a review, and I'm sure quite a few readers of this blog live in the US, so hopefully it will be useful to them.

Link: www.Obares.com