Recent Press Coverage
Yah, we are famous ... Check out what the press has had to say about us! Boston Business Journal - June 30, 2009 South End condos auctioned off for $12M Units ranging in size from 679 square feet to 1,564 square feet sold for between $271,000 to $552,000, according to a report from Condo Domain Boston. The most-recent asking prices for the units ranged from $335,000 to $799,000. | |
Boston Herald June 30,2009 Auction yields deals on South End condos Anthony Longo, founder of the real estate firm CondoDomain, said all 35 units were purchased, and on average, the purchase prices were 74 percent of the developer’s last asking prices.
"It was a successful event for both the developer and the buyers," said Longo, whose firm represented five new owners. | |
NBC Bay Area - May 26,2009 Your New Condo Buddy is Here When you know what you want, your best bet's a specialist: if you need a bed, go to Sleepy's, and if you need "Beyond", go to Bed Bath & Beyond, and just try to ignore the beds and baths. When what you want's a condo, go straight to CondoDomain. | |
Thrillist Los Angeles - April 20,2009 Feast your buying eyes on CondoDomain It's time to set fire to your futon and find the real-man's pad of your dreams with Condo Domain, the web-based brokerage specializing in LA dwellings from condos, to lofts, to brownstones; on top of securing dizzyingly cheap prices, they kick buyers back an average $10,000 commission refund on all sales, just about enough to cover the futon-fueled smoke damage in your old place.Feast your buying eyes on CondoDomain.com. | |
Boston Herald - April 20,2009 Luxury Hull condos set for auction One of the first major auctions was Folio Boston in 2006, the condominium development on Broad Street in the city’s Financial District that failed to attract buyers until 34 condos sold for $26 million in less than two hours.
“More developers are entertaining the idea of an auction,” said Anthony Longo, CEO of CondoDomain.com, a Boston-based buyer’s agent. “It seems to be gaining traction because an auction is just another marketing tool to get the units sold.” | |
Boston Herald - February 27,2009 Luxury buyers wary in Boston condo market Boston’s Teflon luxury condo market is showing signs of wear. While sales of condominiums priced $600,000 or more in the downtown increased by 3.4 percent last year - fueled by a sellout of the Mandarin Oriental in the Back Bay - January sales plummeted by nearly 60 percent. Anthony Longo, a buyer’s broker at CondoDomain, said there are lots of buyers attending open houses. But he said they are unsure of the bottom-line price, so they’re making low offers that are rejected by sellers. | | Inman News - February 16,2009 6% Commissions is dead "Yes, the day of the standardization of 6 percent commission is dead. How long will it take for the industry to realize this? That is the new question.
Now, don't get me wrong, I am not attacking the industry, commission dollar amounts or high-paid all-star agents (many who are worth every penny). I am simply talking about the percentage-based commission structure."
Followup on our blog | | | | | Inman News - January 5, 2009 Xobni integrates inbox with networking Brian-Logan Reid, chief operating officer and director of real estate for CondoDomain.com, a real estate brokerage company, said he has used Xobni for several months.
"Microsoft is not always known for flawless searches with Outlook. Xobni shows you the conversations you have, the files that are transferred," Reid said. | | Boston Herald - November 19, 2008 Slow sales at Clarendon blamed on economy “The Mandarin brought the best of the best to Boston, and there were only 50 units for the super-wealthy who wanted a place downtown, and they bought early,” said Anthony Longo of CondoDomain.com, an exclusive buyer’s agency. | | Fox 25 News Report - November, 13, 2008 Watch The Video It’s the battle of the ages in Boston real estate. The old, historic brownstone versus the new, luxury highrise. Which would you rather call home? FOX25’s Keba Arnold takes a look at how the real estate market in Boston is changing. | | Your Street - November 11, 2008 CondoDomain.com Open San Diego & Washington D.C. Markets “We are in a wild market at a wild time right now,” noted Tony Longo, the firm’s founder & CEO. “We are witnessing traditional real estate companies cut back, reduce staff, and in some instances close their doors. Our ability not only to stay alive, but to continue growing is directly connected with our technology-centric business model and our savvy, value-oriented clients whom choose to work with the firm.” | | Yahoo News - October 16,2008 CondoDomain.com Opens Atlanta and Charlotte Markets "Growing a business like CondoDomain.com, that offers superior service while saving individuals thousands in commissions on their new home purchase, is no easy task, especially in these market conditions. However, the model is much more recognized and appreciated in times like this." Noted, Anthony Longo, Founder & Broker of the firm. | | Sellsius Real Estate Blog - October 16, 2008 CondoDomain & Other Real Estate Brokerages Growing Despite "Crisis" Yes, for many brokerages the cup may be emptying — but for others, it’s just starting to fill up. Case in point: CondoDomain. While Redfin announced the pink slipping of a good chunk of its work force, my buddy Tony Longo and crew at CondoDomain are movin’ on up. CondoDomain, a flat fee based (with rebate) online real estate brokerage, just announced its expansion into the Atlanta market. | | Inman News - September 11, 2008 CondoDomain.com enters Dallas CondoDomain.com, where buyers can browse new condos for sale, on Wednesday announced the launch of its Web-based, flat-fee real estate brokerage in the Dallas, Texas, marketplace. The company, which also operates in Boston, also allows site users to search foreclosure listings, for-sale-by-owner properties and upcoming auctions. CondoDomain.com offers a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee to all of its clients, and is planning expansion into more than 30 U.S. markets. | | Inman News - August 23, 2008 CondoDomain Takes Silver Medal In Real Estate Olympics So the Medal Winners of the 2008 Real Estate Pacesetter Award, as voted by the Inman Real Estate Trends Group, are: GOLD Medal : Obeo (www.obeo.com) SILVER Medal : CondoDomain (www.condodomain.com) BRONZE Medal : Roost (www.roost.com) Congratulations to all the winners!! | | Killer Startups - August, 2008 CondoDomain.com - Web-Based Real Estate Brokerage Over the past 2 years the company has had the success to rank organically in all of the SERP's creating tens of thousands daily visitors. Now that the company has converted to a web-based brokerage, the company can offer the lowest flat fee commission structure refunding the remainder of the commission back to the buyer. | | Boston Globe - July 21, 2008 Bloom's off the brick row house After living for seven years in a full-service condo building, Anthony Longo, chief executive of the buyer brokerage firm Condodomain.com, recently purchased a four-story townhouse in the South End and is renovating the building with his girlfriend.
"I'm taking all the great things I had in my new building and putting them into this charming building, but it's more expensive," said Longo. But he said most of his clients still prefer units in newer, easier to maintain buildings. | | Banker & Tradesman - July 19, 2008 Brokers: Fort Point Condo Project Too Pricey for Neighborhood While people have greeted this emerging neighborhood with a mixed reception, the Fort Point neighborhood undoubtedly exudes a vibrant energy as it grows into its own unique area of downtown Boston. Not only do the FP3 condos offer fabulous views of the Financial District, Seaport, Fort Point Channel, and Boston Harbor, but Barbara Lynch, of No.9 Park and B&G Oyster fame, is set to apply her signature style to the ground-floor retail and restaurant spaces. (Blog Response) | | Boston Globe - July 26, 2007 Amid slump, tony condos in city shine Anthony Longo, chief executive of Condodomain.com, was shopping for a condo in the South End this spring, and lost out in three bidding wars before snaring a place. In each case, the rejected offers were either at or above asking price, said Longo, whose website lists high-end condos for sale in 33 metropolitan markets in the United States and Canada, including Boston.
In early April, Longo got a two-bedroom brownstone unit for $630,000 because he made the offer as soon as it came on the market and then gave the seller just a few hours to accept or reject it. | | Boston Globe - June 18, 2008 CondoDomain Boston Promotes New City Vice President At CondoDomain I work with $300,000 clients and $3,000,000 clients. I treat each client with the same level of professional courtesy and work equally as hard,” said Anthony. “Our clients engage us to help them with the purchase of their new home, it just makes sense that we are compensated for our service and expertise, not on the final purchase price of their home.” | | Inman News - June 6, 2008 Brokerage slapped for Web violations To address the violations, CondoDomain.com has pulled back some of its Web site's features behind a registration wall so that only registered members of the site can have access to them. "We're going to keep all of the content that we can publicly available and transparent," said Anthony Longo, who is founder, CEO and broker of record for CondoDomain. "And the things we have to put under lock and key -- we will do that." | | The Money Blogs - January 18, 2008 CondoDomain's First Week As Exclusive Buyers' Agency Just a week ago, local company CondoDomain opened its doors as an exclusive buyers' agency. The company is run by Anthony Longo who, along with Christian Major, is committed to bringing the real estate profession into the 21st-century by providing buyer clients with cutting-edge technology and exemplary service. At a low price. | | Boston Globe - September 16, 2007 Sellers find action in home videos CondoDomain.com, which markets units in 32 US cities, including Boston, began offering video services to property developers and agents last year. Founder Anthony Longo said an analysis of viewer habits found that listings with an accompanying video were watched by five times more visitors than those that didn't have video; and visitors watched the videos for at least 20 minutes, compared with three- to six-minute visits to listings with just static images. | | Entrepreneur.com - July 18, 2007 Developers get a click out of condoDomain.com Harry Dubin, director of sales and marketing for The Athena Group of New York, which promotes properties on four of condoDomain.com's market sites said, "condoDomain.com's philosophy of combining technology, in-depth local information within each site, and the mixture of ways our properties get marketed truly addresses our needs and those of the buyers, condoDomain.com's ability to leverage technologies and partnerships affords us (brokers and developers) an incredible opportunity that is extremely valuable and cost effective. | | Boston Globe - April 29, 2007 Brokers in Blogsville Over at condoDomain.com, another Boston-based real estate blog, Anthony Longo is writing about a warning issued by the Massachusetts Multiple Listing Service about using a new feature from website Zillow.com, which has emerged as an industry rival. | | Inman News - February 3, 2006 'Dog-eat-dog' condo days are gone In the Boston condo market, there are a number of high-end new construction condo projects, said Anthony Longo, founder and CEO for condoDomain.com, a site that offers condo listings and other news. "We're still on a great pace," he said. Developers are very sophisticated in their condo sales techniques, he said. "Each building is getting its own personality," he said, with a customized marketing campaign and interior design. "They are getting much more refined at what they want that building to look, feel and smell like," Longo said. | | Boston Globe - April 6th, 2006 Google ads local real estate listings Tony Longo, the founder of CondoDomain.com, which carries listings of Boston's most luxurious condominium projects, said his firm submits listings on behalf of clients to Google, which he said quietly rolled out the service weeks ago. | | RISMedia- March 21, 2006 Regional Spotlight: Boston Real Estate Market Heats Up "From new construction condo developments to re-sale open houses, the condo market seems to be back and bigger than ever," said Anthony Longo, founder of condoDomain.com. Longo himself joined in on the frenzy and put an offer in on a unit in Boston's South End. However, his $5,000 above asking offer was not good enough and the condo was put under agreement later that day. This weekend there were numerous reports of condos that went under agreement for above asking in Boston. | | Boston Globe - March 9, 2006 Designer's high-concept condos may be too hip for Hub Boston ''is not New York, it's not Miami," said Tony Longo, founder of condodomain.com, a website that lists luxury Boston condos for sale. ''It's a more conservative town."
A smiling plastic yard gnome greets visitors to the model unit for Starck's project, dubbed YooD4 because the building served as the Area D-4 police station from 1932 to 2002. Gilt-framed mirrors in the dining room flash the words ''sexy" in pink lights and ''star" in blue. Walls are not always flat: A rectangle recessed into one wall is painted daffodil yellow for an otherworldly effect. | | RISMedia - December 20, 2006 Zillow.com, Redfin and Other Real Estate Bloggers Unite for a Holiday Yankee Swap Yesterday, when loyal blog readers logged on to get their daily fill of local real estate scoop, many found something else. RSS Pieces, Inc., a Florida based real estate blogging firm, held their first annual Yankee Blog Swap, bringing together 30 of the most influential real estate bloggers for the Internet equivalent of a "Yankee Swap." | | The Mann Report - September 1, 2006 Citi Livin' Five years ago, while originating residential mortgages in downtown Bosotn, Anthony Longo - a self-proclaimed "city rat" - had a pulse on the condo market. A first turn source for buyers, brokers and developers looking for insight on the condominium market. | | Boston Business Journal - June 30, 2006 CondoDomain.com claims profitability, goes national Few Internet startups can boast of being profitable less than a year after getting started. CondoDomain.com not only makes that claim; it has ramped up from a company serving three cities to serving 32. | | |