BIA of Southern California Launches New Consumer 2.0 Web Site

The Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIA/SC) is launching an exciting new consumer Web site designed to simplify the home finding and loan qualifying process for potential new home buyers.

ModelHomeTour.com provides would-be buyers with everything they need to find and buy their new home – access to real time loan products, expansive new home listings, floor plans, community and tax data, and more – through the power of a sophisticated search engine, icanbuy.

In addition, buyers can immediately find out how much home they can afford, shop for a loan and receive a pre-qualification letter from a lender of their choice, including those affiliated with a builder. That makes the new Web site the best one-stop source of information for new home buyers.

“The BIA is very proud to offer consumers this resource to help make their home buying experience as easy and as informative as possible,” said Richard J. Lambros, chief executive officer of BIA/SC. “Information leads to better decisions, and buyers will be amazed at the amount of information available to them – information that’s not available anywhere else in one location.”

ModelHomeTour.com offers more than 2,900 new home community listings in California and more than 12,000 new home communities in 40 other states. Additionally, icanbuy has partnered with 125 newspapers throughout the country to provide the new home search capability on their Web sites.

“This is a very exciting development for our builders, who will now have more serious buyers in their sales offices, buyers who have researched the communities online and who know that they can afford their loans,” said Paul Dix, chief operating officer of BIA/SC. “This is an incredible opportunity for builders to have their communities, information and images accessible to thousands of potential new home buyers.”

BIA/SC will officially launch the Web site at the Building Industry Show in Long Beach November 13 & 14.

Editor’s Note: Read the full release here. http://www.biasc.org/article.cfm?id=862

About BIA/SC: Established in 1923, BIA/SC is a non-profit trade association representing nearly 2,000 member companies involved in planning and building Southern California’s communities. Learn more at biasc.org.
Contacts

BIA/SC
Julie Senter, 909-396-9993
Director of Communications