Realius

Many of tomorrow’s first time home buyers were chatting with each other on AOL years before they experienced their first kisses. In college, they performed full text searches on Lexus Nexus for research papers instead of using card catalogs and Xerox machines. Today, they email on the go and expect responses from friends within hours, not days. Jason Benesch over at The Real Estate Tomato, has a great post about the maturing generation of First Time Home Buyers.

Our knowledge comes from the intelligence of the mob. There are websites that let us view user ratings on news, bookmarks, urban definitions, wines, burritos, beers, and videos. I want to have that same experience when searching for my first home. Show me what the community thinks. Show me what the Realtors think. Give me the data the way I am used to receiving it.

Our first game, a home pricing game, meets Jason’s requests. Players will see what the community thinks homes are going to sell for and how they fit into that community. Take a look at a partial screenshot from the game:

Players will also see what realtors think and will be scored on how close their guess is to the ‘crowd guess’. Games speak to The Millenial Generation.