[tv2016]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

There is a way to choose Pre-Owned NEW LISTINGS. See screen snapshot below.

When Search Homes page comes up:

- Choose "Pre-Owned" Homes under "-Search"

- Unfiltered Pre-Owned homes come up

- Then, under "-Newest Homes Released" choose "Our Newest Homes:" __ (no. once filtered)

When I did that (in photo below) 13 came up, and I looked at them and they say "New Listing" and they are indeed Pre-Owned New Listings.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...1&d=1379989671

Thank you! Now if they would add the village for each house on that list of new listings, it would be great

[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by tv2016

Thank you! Now if they would add the village for each house on that list of new listings, it would be great

Within those pre-owned new listing results that come up, you can further filter it by village, using the "Village" choice near the bottom of the list of criteria. There you can type the name of the village to avoid scrolling the long list.

[gpirate]

Very poor for people looking to buy preowned homes. You can no longer find the new listings on a daily basis. Now you have to search through homes by price and much duplication of reviewing homes. Poorly done but I can see why they are doing it as it is now set up to try and sell more new homes. Please change it back at least for the new listings daily.

[rtime]

new site not quite user friendly as old site but you can find out all that you would like to find. One nice thing about it is that you can search by model. Very helpful to see what you are hunting for is being listed in the different villages.

[HarrietSmarty]

Initially I didn't think this change was an improvement, but on closer look, it is improved--the Models are now listed for the pre-owned homes and you can still search by Village.

Try this:
From the Home page under Homes and Villas select "Search Homes" then
Under the expanded "Search" tab, select "Preowned Homes" -- all preowned pop up, then you can select the individual options just as previously available including "Village"
It defaults to "Open Houses" first, but you can easily sort by other options just like before.

Happy searching!

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by westcoastsunshine

I hate this new site...confusing and frustrating.

Originally Posted by stroglass

I don't like this change i want to buy a house next month but this is making the hunt really hard

Originally Posted by gpirate

Very poor for people looking to buy preowned homes. You can no longer find the new listings on a daily basis. Now you have to search through homes by price and much duplication of reviewing homes. Poorly done but I can see why they are doing it as it is now set up to try and sell more new homes. Please change it back at least for the new listings daily.

The old system was simple and user friendly. With the new system, it is possible to sort through the listings and eventually find Pre-owned homes by Village; it's just more complicated. And it does seem to be biased toward selling new homes.

Gpirate, I suggest you call the Sales Office and complain. If they get enough negative feedback from prospective Purchasers, they may change it back.

[gomoho]

Once you figure out it works it's okay, but it would be nice if their was a button for "new listings". Make life much easier for those searching.

[Aurora]

It's always a bit difficult to adapt to changes. I like some of the new search options such as by model. However, the pending properties are gone! They used to stay on the site until they closed. Also, courtyard villas are missing from the list although I can find them if I keep refining the search. Maybe "they" will tweak it to cover what folks are missing.

[kfierle]

You can still view preowned pending properties. Just click the box next to Include Pending Homes and they will be visable. It is a bit confusing because that box is below the Both New and Preowned selection.

Courtyard villas are available for viewing on the list. Just click on Villas and you have to select what type of villa. Keys and Cabana villas are vinyl sided. Savannah and Bungalow villas are block and stucco. Not sure about Designer villas.

[Dayzee]

Originally Posted by 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.

- There are additional options to choose from on the new site, making it possible to narrow your search even more.

[Topspinmo]

Just when on the pre-owned villa site... Only showed 2 villa for sale in the villages, yes I used all the filter buttons... It flashed 16 for second then blinked and only showed two. This just bad change or they are still working the bugs out. Too bad for people out of state looking. Just makes you wonder who all sudden decided the old page wasn't good enough or up to date. maybe the Federal Government mandated this cause it was too easy the old way

[ricthemic]

But i did go to the sight as others suggested.... there has to be a money reason for changing to this crazy idiotic program. what a waste of time.

[gpirate]

Originally Posted by Ragman

Click on pre-owned homes and then our newest homes. Takes about 2 seconds. Two clicks instead of one. You can also search new homes by Village.

On the new site they are listed vertically and you can pull up all the newest pre-owned homes instead of scrolling back and forth.

After using it some I think it is a vast improvement over the two old sites.

No you cannot. I have been following new listings for 6 months. As of 9/22 they were at 214325. Today the lastest listing I could find was 214323. They have been adding average of 7-11 new per day. So today the new listings should be in the 21***7+. Why are they hiding the newest listings?
I will stop looking if this is the way TV operates. Sad management IMHO.

[kagney123]

I miss the aerial view map option I enjoyed looking from above

[Schaumburger]

Originally Posted by cbh1975

Just over to the right of the "sort by" box is an arrow. Click on that and it will change the sort from high to low to low to high.

They could have made it a more prominent color. The pale grey on white background is a bit hard to see.

cbh1975, Thank you for pointing this out I agree that the pale grey on white background is a little hard to see. The web design/marketing department should have asked a few volunteers (non-IT people) to test drive this redesign and solicit suggestions before rolling this out to the public.