Friday, October 29, 1999
New Web site touts city living
Neighborhoods on video tours
BY PHILLIP PINA
The Cincinnati Enquirer
A Cincinnati Internet site to be unveiled today by the city and its housing partners will take users on a virtual tour of neighborhoods.
Developed as a site to promote city living and home ownership, it will offer interested users information on housing values, schools, and shopping, as well as links to homes for sale and financing options. There will also be short, video tours of locations in each neighborhood.
Outside of driving through each section of the city, the Web site “actually puts you in the scene of each neighborhood,” said Lynn Hailey, vice president/group supervisor at Northlich, Stolley, LaWarre Public Relations, the firm that developed the site.
The Internet project cost the city $350,000 and will be unveiled today at the public library downtown. The Web site — www.cincinnatihome.org — will go online about 10 a.m. during the ceremony with officials from the city and Cincinnati HomeOwnership Partnership, a group of local institutions founded by Mayor Roxanne Qualls that works to attract home buyers to the city.
There are a number of resources already available on the Internet to potential home buyers, including www.cincinnati.com, operated by the Enquirer and Post. The Hamilton County auditor's site gives details on individual homes. The Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors lists its available homes. And 99 percent of Cincinnati-area Realtors post homes they are trying to sell on the Internet, according to the local Board of Realtors. That compares with 82 percent nationwide.
Industry statistics show that 80 percent of those viewing those listings do so to research properties. It is an initial step before driving out to neighborhoods and touring the homes in person.
“This Web site is an excellent tool to increase home ownership in the city,” said Cheryl Meadows, director of Cincinnati's Department of Neighborhood Services.
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