Distressed properties marketing system and method

Abstract

A computerized system and method is presented that allows selling agents to market a listing agent's distressed property listings even though the selling agents work for a different broker than the listing agent. The owner of the property may restrict the selling agents that may market their property. In one embodiment, the owner selects a qualified lender, and the pool of selling agents who may market that property is limited to selling agents who are associated in the computerized system with the qualified lender. The system allows selling agents to schedule open houses for distressed properties listed by the listing agent, with the system preventing two selling agents from scheduling open houses that conflict with one another. The system tracks the marketing activity of agents, which can be used to suggest listing agents to owners, or to restrict the ability of selling agents to market properties.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A server computer comprising:
 a) a processor that processes programming instructions;   b) non-transitory computer readable memory containing database programming to manage a database, wherein the data in the database is stored on a non-transitory computer readable memory and is transformed during operation by the database programming, the database containing:
 i) a real estate property record containing information about a distressed property owned by an owner, 
 ii) a listing agent record containing information about a listing agent hired to sell the distressed property, and 
 iii) selling agent records containing information about selling agents willing to help market properties, wherein the selling agents and the listing agent work for different real estate brokers; 
   c) non-transitory computer readable memory containing an agent interface programming for creating an agent interface for agents associated with the selling agent records, the agent interface presenting a list of real estate property information available for marketing including the distressed property.   
     
     
         2 . The server computer of  claim 1 , wherein the database further contains:
 iv) a qualified lender record containing information about a qualified lender selected by the owner, and   v) linking information linking a qualified lender record with a first subset of selling agent records, wherein a second subset of selling agent records is not linked with the qualified lender record.   
     
     
         3 . The server computer of  claim 2 , wherein the distressed property is listed only in the interface associated with the first subset of selling agent records and not listed in the interface associated with the second subset of selling agent records, whereby only selling agents with records associated in the database with the qualified lender record have access to select the distressed property for marketing in the agent interface. 
     
     
         4 . The server computer of  claim 1 , wherein the agent interface programming further comprises scheduling programming for scheduling an open house for the distressed property, wherein the scheduling programming ensures that there is no conflict between multiple open houses scheduled for the distressed property. 
     
     
         5 . The server computer of  claim 1 , wherein the database further contains owner records containing information about owners wishing to sell distressed properties, and further comprising:
 d) non-transitory computer readable memory containing an owner interface programming for creating an owner interface for owners associated with the owner records, the owner interface presenting a list of listing agents qualified to list distressed property.   
     
     
         6 . The server computer of  claim 1 , wherein the listing agent record includes information about the listing brokerage employing the listing agent and the selling agent record includes information about the selling brokerage employing the selling agent, further wherein the listing brokerage and the selling brokerage are different brokerages: 
     
     
         7 . The server computer of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 d) non-transitory computer readable memory containing an owner interface programming for creating an owner interface for an owner of the distressed property, the owner interface presenting statistics tracked by the server computer relating to the success of marketing efforts related to the distressed property undertaken by the listing agent and the selling agents.