[asianthree]

the website has changed you no longer can look at the pre-owned homes by the villages one by one or new additions...now you get the open houses...hope this will change soon..i like it the old way

[njbchbum]

looks like that could send folks running to mls websites!

[delima2000]

I saw that today too and I do not like it. Always looked at new listing for used homes to tell my sister. Now you haven to go thru hoops to find the listings. Please change it. Not everyone is interested in new homes.

[LuvlyJubly]

I check the website daily like others do and at this time I am not sure they have created a better option to search for a home than before. I have just tried the new search and after looking at a home and you click "return to search results" it takes you to the main villages website where you have to start all over again, what a mess!
Hope they sort it out soon...

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by asianthree

the website has changed you no longer can look at the pre-owned homes by the villages one by one or new additions...now you get the open houses...hope this will change soon..i like it the old way

Not a good change ................... Did not make much sense to me.

[gerryann]

It will cause folks to go to outside realtor instead of using villages to sell (or buy). Obviously, TV is trying to sell new over the preowned. It's too difficult to get to where you want to view with this new search engine.

[ilovetv]

They want to sell pre-owned. That's all there will be to sell within 15-18 months, and TV Sales is not going to let that majority market share go to others.

It's likely more of a web design and IT dept. design change....you know.....the non-talking people who do the programming but have never had to use it as a salesperson or consumer.

[gerryann]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

They want to sell pre-owned. That's all there will be to sell within 15-18 months, and TV Sales is not going to let that majority market share go to others.

It's likely more of a web design and IT dept. design change....you know.....the non-talking people who do the programming but have never had to use it as a salesperson or consumer.

This will be true in 15-18 months, but in the meantime, they have a LOT of new spec homes to unload.

[janmcn]

The new website is very difficult to navigate, the photos are terrible and hard to see. When you finally get to a category of interest, the street address pops up but not the village. Still haven't been able to find new listings. They need a new web designer.

[NIPAS K-9]

It sucks............... Somebody wants to sell those new homes fast............

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by janmcn

The new website is very difficult to navigate, the photos are terrible and hard to see. When you finally get to a category of interest, the street address pops up but not the village. Still haven't been able to find new listings. They need a new web designer.

If I had a pre-owned house listed for sale with The Villages, I wouldn't be a happy camper about the new web design.

I betcha a lot of peeps will complain and it'll get fixed PDQ!

[Ragman]

Appears to me they just combined the websites. Not really that hard to navigate, but you do need click more than one button. For someone searching for both new and pre-owned it saves going back and forth between websites.

[l2ridehd]

And to think they paid someone to make this change. I would never have questioned going to VLS when I was ready to sell, now I will go to MLS. Don't they test market things before implementation?

[skip0358]

New Web Site is difficult because it's new. When you've been using the old one for years it will definitely take some time to get used to. I know it's still being worked on also because IF you click on the property maps to check a description you get a computer error message.

[Spectreron]

Just click on "Search Homes" on TheVillages.com and they're all there. You can see the new, pre-owned, or both at once and you can still search by price, model, etc. The site is actually easier to use than the previous version IMHO.