0911Singapore Real Estate, Rental Houses, Apartments, Condos, Singapore Classifieds, Internet Property Advertisements published by: Asiahomes
Internet

Older version of FAQ in angelfire webpage

1. What is an Internet Property Advertisement?
2. What's so good about an Internet Property Advertisement?
3. Why should I pay S$13.50 to advertise in Asiahomes Internet when there are free classifieds in the Internet?
   
4. What does Asiahomes Internet specialize in?
5. What is its website address?
6. Where are its Internet Property Advertisements found?
   
7. Is the website surfed regularly?
8. How many people browse the website?
9. Who reads its Internet Property Advertisements?
   
10.   How do prospective Tenants locate asiahomes.com     when there are millions of websites in the world wide web?
11.   Who manages the technical aspects of the website?
12.   Is the website technically sound so as to attract the most number of genuine prospective Tenants from all over the world including Singapore?
    
13.   Does it get repeat visitors?
14.   Is the website expanding?
15.   Has the website any new ideas to attract repeat visitors?
    
16.   Who are the Internet Service Providers?
17.   Are they always busy such that visitors cannot download any    information quickly?
18.   What ranking is asiahomes.com in the Yahoo search directory?
    
19.   How popular is asiahomes.com in the International Real       Estate Directory?
20.   How popular is asiahomes.com in the Altavista search engine?  How to find asiahomes.com
    in Altavista's 1.8 million webpages for "real estate"?
21.   How popular is asiahomes.com in the Infoseek search engine?
    
22.   Any other search engines like Lycos, Excite, Hotbot, Singapore      infomap, Google in which asiahomes.com is ranked?
23.   How do I advertise in Asiahomes Internet?
24.   How do I write my advertisement?
    
25.   Where do I send the cheque of S$13.50?
26.   Can I get my money back if I change my mind?

It is letting others from anywhere in the world know that your house, condo or land is available for sale/rent using electronic means such as the computers, mobile phones and personal digital assistants.

2. What's so good about an Internet Property Advertisement?

The advantage is the great convenience for the prospective client in accessing the information day or night, 24 hours per day and 7 days per week (your www.asiahomes.com ad will be kept for 90 days).

It is one additional means to let Internet surfers from any part of the world know you have a property for them.   Most of the prospective expatriate tenants (Caucasian and Japanese overseas) don't have Singapore's newspapers in their countries. 

Therefore your ad reaches an increasing number of foreign buyers of your properties doing research at asiahomes.com and elsewhere, see:

The crazy American offering $3million for Wing On Life Garden?

"No, no, no" is a challenge to this American investor

Another reader is the Singaporean Buyers or Sellers who want to refer to past information readily available in the internet databases and archives.  It is cumbersome in checking out the previous newspapers which may have been thrown away.

3. Why should I pay $13.50 to advertise in Asiahomes Internet when there are free classifieds in the Internet?

Advertise in as many free classifieds as possible.

Asiahomes.com is targeted at the right audience in the world wide web, your type of customers.  It is regularly updated.   It is conveniently available 24 hours/day.

We still advise you to use the Singapore Straits Times newspaper advertisements and other means. 

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3.1. Expatriates' analysis of Singapore housing reveals the thoughts of expats on Singapore Housing & Landlords. Click: Closing on a tough Dutchman

3.2. Tips for relocating Expatriates present real situations and how they were handled by the expatriate Tenants.

3.3  Tips for first-time Landlords discuss how to attract expatriates to rent your investment property in the shortest time to recoup your capital. There are many problem-resolving situations encountered such as:

The Doctor reneging on an agreement to pay managing fee to the introducer as she deemed it a Corrupt Practice Investigation Board (CPIB)-type corrupted practice.

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• This resistance led to the Managing Agent wanting to "Make a house-call to see the Doctor, failing which he would sue the doctor.
  
• Other common incidents, such as the frustrations of the good husband who lost many prospects due to his wife's body language, frightening all in the case of the Sulky Tai Tai.

Your $13.50 advertisement exposes your asset 24-hour/day to people from all over the world, not just Singaporeans.
Not just one day as for newspaper advertisement but 90 days.

If you are from the baby-boomer generation, as most Property Owners are, you probably will not be interested nor believe in the marketing power of the Internet. You may think Internet is email messages here and there.

However, since most of your competitors (for Tenants) are still unaware of the power of global exposure of marketing from expatriate targeted websites such as Asiahomes Internet, you will have an added advantage while the others can think only of the Straits Times newspaper.

More important, your "$13.50/40 words/90 days" does not cost the earth.

A direct closing with the expatriate or any surfer looking for rental homes or purchase saves you agency commission and this may be $2,000 (for a 2-bedroom condo) to $20,000 (for bungalows).  Agency commission is 1% of the sales price and this can be at least $10,000 for a $1 million house for sale. This means an immense saving of over 100 times, considering that you pay $13.50 for an Internet Property Advertisement with Asiahomes Internet.

We encourage you to use other free Internet classifieds to advertise and promote your property too.

However, many websites providing free Internet Classifieds have to promote all kinds of merchandise and services, as it is extremely costly to maintain a niche website for Singapore housing.

By diversification, they will not be able to provide the latest Singapore rental housing information, e.g.  Subdivision Rentals in asiahomes.com which researches and reports on new condos available.

After a while, few surfers want to access such websites to look for Singapore housing because they lack the latest information on Singapore housing. It is extremely expensive to get writers and photographers to produce housing reports for the website as manpower costs are very high in Singapore, especially in the information technology field.

4. What does Asiahomes Internet specialize in?

Internet property advertisements for realtors and Singaporean and foreign Owners cover 90% of its business. Although the focus is on Singapore rentals, we accept sales advertisements from our readers world-wide.

Asiahomes Internet,  http://www.asiahomes.com/singapore_classified is the internet advertising agent for Asia USA Realty (Singapore) asiahomes.com Pte Ltd which is targeted at expatriates relocating to Singapore and looking for rental housing for the first time.

Many expats resident in Singapore do surf and new arrivals do visit asiahomes.com and contact us after reading our daily Straits Times advertisements such as:

Property Classifieds Section 404 - For Rent under "**Expats! Near Orchard MRT.....Others , visit "www.asiahomes.com".   . 

5. What is its website address?

It is http://www.asiahomes.com/
singapore_classified for Asiahomes Internet. Prime space ads are placed in the front page of asiahomes.com.

6. Where are its Internet Property Advertisements?

Over 2,000 Photo-Ads and floor layout plans are presented in the 2 websites, namely asiahomes.com and  http://www.asiahomes.com/
singapore_classified.

7. Is the website asiahomes.com surfed regularly?

Yes.  Various groups including the younger generation and expat managers in the financial, information technology and telecommunication sectors.

8. How many people visit asiahomes.com?

Estimated to be over 20,000 in 1998 and 4,000 per month from January 2000.  These are serious house hunters tracking down Singapore properties. The original website was started in 1995, using the services of an American webmasters in Tampa, Florida, USA under her website, as http://www.gotit.com/ds, now defunct. As the information is massive and needs to be continually updated in the shortest time, asiahomes.com was set up with its own domain name.

9. Who reads its Internet Property Advertisements?

9.1.  Majority are Caucasians relocating to Singapore and Singapore Owners looking for Tenants.

9.2.  Expatriates in Singapore looking to upgrading or changing residences, in response to Straits Times advertisements by asiahomes.com regularly in Rental Classifieds.

9.3.  Surfers from the Pacific Internet's and Singnet's Real Estate Classifieds.

9.4.  Referrals from Expatriates in Singapore.

9.5.  Referrals from existing clientele.

9.6.  Increasing number of Internet Realtors from other firms.

9.7.  First-time Landlords who get useful advices such as the case of The Landlord giving more than what the Tenant wants.   The vast majority of the surfers are the genuine prospective Tenants who want rental housing and some photos of houses.

We introduce new and old housing developments in Photo-Ads, such as: Judy's Photo-Ads  and Old & New Singapore houses.

If they want more info, they call us long distance, from the USA, Hongkong, Australia, New Zealand, for example. They are the genuine house-hunting kind of prospective Tenant you want to rent your condo or house

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10. How do prospective Tenants locate asiahomes.com when there are at hundreds of of search engines and directories?

From our research, the majority of our clientele use Yahoo or any of the 7 search engines like Altavista, Infoseek, Lycos, Hotbot and Excite.

10.1 What is the number of hits for asiahomes.com?

Around 4,000 hits per month from January 2000 and increasing as we are linked to other related firms since 1997.

11. Who manages the technical aspects of the website?

The Webmaster is Mr Mark Richmond, a professional with hands-on experience in the Information Technology profession.

12. Is the website technically sound so as to attract the most number of genuine prospective Tenants from all over the world including Singapore?

12.1  Site Quality.

12.1.1  Link Exchange gives a 4/5 rating for asiahomes.com. Site Inspector gives it an Award for excellence (SI Award). Go to http://siteinspector.linkex
change.com - key in www.asiahomes.com in "Site Quality" evaluation.

12.1.2 Excellent rating (4/5 bar rating) from the International Real Estate Directory
at http://www.ired.com/int/
asia/singapore_a-z.htm. "Excellence" refers to an original and/or a unique better than  average presentation that makes the site stand out in the crowd.

12.2  Load time. Many surfers from the US commend and appreciate asiahomes.com for the content and fast downloading. 

12.3  Excellent navigation. The website is written up with valid html programming and checked for navigational errors or dead URL links to make surfing for unique Singapore housing info a pleasure.

13. Does it get repeat visitors?

• Yes, because it has regularly  updated rental listings of realtors of Asia USA, e.g House-hunting Rentals.
  
• Photo-Ads/photos/811063 and a vast amount of free information on new condos/houses, their rentals and Singapore rental housing practices illustrated by over 1,000 photographs and layouts.
  
• Tips for Expats relocating to Singapore
  are of great interest to the targeted audience as there are no books available even at amazon.com, Borders, Barnes and Nobles specifically written to help Expatriates check out the cost and quality of the various types of Singapore rental housing.

• Tips for Buyers & Sellers
  demonstrate some real life judgments affecting investment.
  
  Magic UE Square Condo's windows which become opaque when you go near: Surprises when you buy off the plans in: UE Square   Windows which cloud up when you go near  
  if your unit faces the Presidential Palace (Istana).
  
  
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Yes, it is a massive property website with more than 2,000 photos and layout of Singapore rental housing displaying a pictorial wealth of Singapore condos and houses for the expatriate researching on the best home to live in.

New features such as short term leases at  Serviced Apartments in Singapore are of great interest to the  prospective expatriate Tenant who may be thinking of working in Singapore but wants to check out the housing before relocation to a permanent condo.

15. What new topics are there to attract repeat visitors? Information of benefit to readers is updated regularly such as:

• Unique Homes showcasing conservation (heritage) houses and special homes.  The Conservation Shophomes have been given a separate category now.
  
• How expatriates select their ideal Singapore homes present the latest findings for expatriates and for first-time landlords and investors who wish to rent fast.
  
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• Expatriates' Contacts, providing information on Singaporeans & individuals who provide
  business services to expats e.g "Personalized dog services" at K S Lee's personalized dog transport and services
  
• Real estate laws affecting you
  
• Photo-ads showing locations of Downtown condos,
  and maps, Aspen Heights Condo or waterfront Costa Rhu apartments
  
• Pets are beloved family members for expatriates and
  Singapore's "X-file generation". Asiahomes Internet
  sponsors over over 100 photos of medical cases and useful information on the care of Singapore's dogs and cats at Tips for Animal Lovers & Doctors, such as:

Australian puppies dying in June 1998,

Who's to blame for the sudden death of a dog in the boarding kennel?

16.1  Mindspring Enterprise, mindspring.net from the USA
is the web hosting server. It has excellent technical
back up services and is listed on the secondary stock market of New York (Nasdaq: MSPG). Check out its Financial performance.

On September 25, 1999, Earthlinks and Mindspring announced a merger which will make the new entity the 2nd largest internet service provider in the world, after AOL. Mindspring is ranked top 10 in a February 1999 survey of ISPs, being 5th in reliability.

16.2  Pacific Internet is the Singapore Internet service provider, also listed on the Nasdaq. Pacific Internet is reported to be Singapore's No. 1 in one 1999 survey and has expanded to the Asian regions.

17. Are the two Internet Service Providers always busy such that visitors cannot download any information?
No. Fast downloading of the front page of asiahomes.com in less
than 6 seconds is achieved 99% of the times.

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Rankings of http://www.
asiahomes.com

Rankings of http://www.
asiahomes.com

Rankings of http://www.
asiahomes.com

Rankings of http://www.
asiahomes.com

Asia USA Realty specialises in Singapore real estate rentals and
the web spiders rank it amongst the top 100 listings.

April 22, 2000, it was ranked No. 1.
Aug 26, 2000, it is ranked 5th & 6th, as follows:

5. Singapore real estate firm focused on rental condos, houses, apartments for re Real Estate, Singapore real estate firm focused on rental condos, houses, apartments for rent to US expats relocating to Singapore. Asia USA Realty ...URL: www.maxpages.com/asiahomes/Home

6. Singapore real estate, apartments, condos, houses, 2nd page front page Asia US singapore real estate, affordable cheap singapore rental house, condo, apartment, service apartment, short lease, US, European, Asian expats,...URL: www.asiahomes.com/index2.htm

If keywords, "Singapore condos" are used, the ranking is No. 1 for one of its web pages as follows:

1. 811201 - Landbay Condominium 201"Singapore real estate internet classifieds, advertisements of apartments, condos, houses, serviced apartments" is published by asiahomes.com ...
URL: www.asiahomes.com/singaporeapartment
/hom...137_homepat.htm
  
Sep 10, 2000,  if you search "Singapore real estate condo" webpages,  asiahomes.com is listed No. 1 & 17 in www.altavista.com

AltaVista Category Matches: National Guides and Directories to Rental Properties | Vacation Rental Property | Real Estate in Asia
| Acapulco, Mexico Home and Condo Rentals | Acapulco, Mexico Home and Condo Rentals | International Trade - Singapore
1. 0715 Singapore real estate, apartments, condo, houses, training realtor articl 0715 Singapore real estate condos, apartments, houses for rent published by Asiahomes Internet for Asia USA Realty (Singapore) asiahomes.com Pte Ltd ..
URL: www.asiahomes.com/singapore-rent/photo_tips.htm

17. 710161- 1 or 2 bedroom Condo
Singapore Real Estate Classifieds/Rental Singapore Housing educational articles. Reference: 710161 Subject: Wanted - 1 OR 2-BEDROOM / CONDO CITY OR ...URL: www.asiahomes.com/singaporeapartment
/faq_usa/1_usa.htm

Sep 10, 2000,  Keywords:  "Singapore real estate", position is No. 6 &  8.
6. Singapore real estate, apartments, condos, houses, 2nd page front page Asia US singapore real estate, affordable cheap singapore rental house, condo, apartment, service apartment, short lease, US, European, Asian expats,...
URL: www.asiahomes.com/index2.htm

8. Singapore real estate firm focused on rental condos, houses, apartments for re Real Estate, Singapore real estate firm focused on rental condos, houses, apartments for rent to US expats relocating to Singapore. Asia USA Realty ...
URL: www.maxpages.com/asiahomes/Home

Oct 3, 1998, it was listed 17^th, 23^rd, 94^th - 100^th.
Nov 3, 1998, it was listed 14^th, 32^nd, 41^st, 83^rd and 96^th
of 299 web pages.

September 27, 1999, it was listed 2nd and 6th and in other positions in 615 web pages. 

Rankings of http://www.
asiahomes.com

Rankings of http://www.
asiahomes.com

Rankings of http://www.
asiahomes.com

Rankings of http://www.
asiahomes.com

Rankings of http://www.
asiahomes.com

7. 2667 Singapore real estate, condos, apartments, houses,
serviced apartments, singapore real estate,affordable cheap singapore rental house, condo, apartment, serviced apartment, asiahomes.com, asiahomes internet classified, neighborhood , classified, http://www.asiahomes.com/

11. Singapore Real Estate
Singapore real estate relocation firm provides free house
http://www.asiahomes.com

Jan 26, 1999. 3rd position. See Jan 26, 1999 Hot Bot. 

Rankings of http://www.
asiahomes.com

Rankings of http://www.
asiahomes.com

23.1. $13.50/40 words/90 days, usually in prime ad space in the front page of http://www.asiahomes.com if it is available.

Photo-Ads' rates
to be discussed on request. Other rates: Click
http://www.asiahomes.com/
singapore_classified

24. What wordings do I use? State the BENEFITS,

e.g. The Draycott, 4+1, 2800 sq. ft, $12,000. 10-minute walk to Orchard subway and American Club, renovated,
panoramic city view, bright kitchen, spacious bedrooms,
3 families/floor. Contact 9668 6468, 254 2728, email judy@asiahomes.com

25. Where do I make payment?
Write a cheque S$13.50 payable to Asiahomes Internet for 40 words of advertisement.

Post the cheque to Blk 1002, Toa Payoh Lorong 8, #01-1477, Singapore 319074. We are investigating

Yes. You get your money back, guaranteed if it is not published on-line.
No questions asked. Tel: +65 9668 6468, 254 2728, 254 3326.

ABOUT
ASIAHOMES INTERNET

Asiahomes Internet
http://www.asiahomes.com/
singapore_classified  is an internet advertising agency specialising in property rentals and sales.

Advertisements or Classifieds for Asia USA Realty (Singapore) asiahomes.com Pte Ltd.  http://www.asiahomes.com

It offers a bridge over troubled waters for Owners, Realtors and Managing agents who want a global exposure at affordable rates.
S$13.50 for up to 40 words for 90 days or $0.16 cents/day is a small fee for a text ad in a niche website specialized in Singapore housing.  Usually you get your ads placed on the front page for the first 14 days.   Email your ad to judy@asiahomes.com now!