General Terms and Conditions
Please familiarize yourself with AlanNewhomess Listing Policies and Guidelines (the Listing Policies) prior to entering a property listing on the AlanNewhomes website. All listings are subject to the Listing Policies.
Listing Review
All listings entered on AlanNewhomes may be subject to review by AlanNewhomes company personnel (Listing Review) prior to becoming available for full viewing online. AlanNewhomes reserves the right, but not the obligation, to review any listing entered by Customer on AlanNewhomes. Although Customers listings may be subject to Listing Review, Customer remains solely responsible for abiding by the Listing Policies and AlanNewhomess Terms and Conditions. The Listing Policies prohibit Customer from entering any listing that infringes upon the intellectual property rights of any party, or that otherwise violates AlanNewhomess Terms and Conditions. By entering listings on AlanNewhomes, Customer warrants and represents that Customer owns or otherwise controls all of the rights to such content including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for Customer to provide, post, upload, input or submit such content. Customer acknowledges that AlanNewhomes cannot police or control all of the content provided by Customer(s) that is made available on AlanNewhomes.
Listings that violate any of the Listing Policies stated herein will not receive Listing Review approval for active posting on AlanNewhomes until the issue in question has been addressed. When conducting Listing Review, new listings added to AlanNewhomes are examined to determine whether such listings are in compliance with the Listing Policies. In the event Listing Review determines a listing violates Listing Policies (including but not limited to containing inaccurate or incomplete information), Listing Review will send an email message to the Customer about such listing, clearly stating how such proposed listing does not conform to established Listing Policies and offering solutions on how to rectify the deficiency. After the Customer receives notice from Listing Review, the Customer will be given a reasonable amount of time (routinely, 48 hours) to respond. It is then the sole responsibility of the Customer to review the communication from Listing Review, revise the listing as appropriate, and resubmit the corrected listing. Once the appropriate revision has been made, and Listing Review determines the listing is compliant with Listing Policies, the listing will be made available for full viewing on the site. However, if the Customer fails to respond to the communication from Listing Review, AlanNewhomes in its sole discretion reserves the right to remove any and all content that continues to violate the Listing Policies, including disallowing listings from the Service.
Required Fields
All fields noted by an asterisk (*) on the add property page are required fields and must be completed with valid data pertaining to the property being listed (Required Fields). Property listings where data is missing or data entered in the Required Fields is deemed illogical will be removed from the site until valid content is entered in the Required Fields.
Address Fields
All Address fields on AlanNewhomes including Address, City, State and Zip Code are Required Fields. These fields are intended for listing the physical address or intersection of the property being listed. These fields are not for the listing of additional information about the property . Entering Confidential, Call Broker, Withheld, or any other verbiage designed to withhold, hide, and/or conceal the physical address in the Address1 or City Name fields is strictly prohibited. AlanNewhomes reserves the right to remove any and all property listings with non-address related or invalid information in any address specific field with or without contacting the listing broker.
Property Description
Property descriptions are for the description of the property that is for sale or for lease only. The posting of contact name, phone number, fax number, company information or URL links for any contacts including those who are not AlanNewhomes members is strictly prohibited in this section. Also, contact details for AlanNewhomes registered Basic users may not be listed within a Premium Listing (see Terms & Conditions - Premium Subscriptions). This type of information in the Property Description field will be removed from the listing and the listing broker will receive an email informing them of the change. Habitual violations of this policy will result in AlanNewhomess removal of all of such Customers active listings on the Service until all such content has been appropriately rectified.
Property Type
Properties must be identified with the appropriate property type. Adding the same listings under multiple property types is prohibited. AlanNewhomes allows each listing to associate with up to three (3) property subtypes in order to improve exposure for the listing during searches. AlanNewhomes reserves the right to change or remove property types deemed to be misleading.
Pricing
A valid Sales Price in the Price Asking field for the listed property is required for all AlanNewhomes Sales Listings and a valid rental rate for each space is required for all AlanNewhomes Lease Listings. Confidential pricing is permitted on sales listings for Premium Membership for Professionals members only via the Opinion of Value function. Opinion of Value, a check box listed next to the Price Asking field, displays the sales price for searchers on the AlanNewhomes site as Not Disclosed. By entering a valid Asking Price in the required field and utilizing this function, properties will return in price range searches; however, the actual price will remain confidential. AlanNewhomes reserves the right to remove all listings that are deemed to have invalid prices or rental rates including any listing with $0 listed in Lease Rate, Sales Price and Opinion of Value fields.
Listing Parameters
In order to maximize the features of the AlanNewhomes service, Customers should note certain parameters in the listing process.
Commercial Property
AlanNewhomes is a web site for commercial real estate. Listing of single-family residences is prohibited on the AlanNewhomes website, except if such residences have a residential income purpose (e.g. to purchase a residence whose customary use has been as a rental property), in which case such properties may by listed under the Residential Income category only. The listing of single family residential income property under all other categories is prohibited. Any listing deemed to be a non-income generating, single-family residence will be removed from the system during the listing approval process and an email will be sent to the Customer stating that the property has been identified as a single-family residential property.
Contact Information
Premium Member Listings added to the AlanNewhomes web site will only receive Premium Membership for Professionals Listing benefits if all contacts referenced for that listing are also Premium Members. If a Basic Member and/or a Premium Searcher Member is added as an additional contact to a Premium Member Listing, the listing will become a Basic Listing.
Confidential Listings
The ability to market a Confidential Listing is a benefit available only to Premium Members. Basic listings that post Confidential, Call broker, Undisclosed, Withheld or any other similar verbiage in any required field including Address1, City Name, Property Name or Property Description are prohibited. All content of this type will be removed from Basic listings prior to approval for viewing by searchers on the AlanNewhomes site. Habitual abuse of this policy may lead to the removal of all active listings for the listing broker from the site.
Duplicates
Property Listings AlanNewhomes prohibits the listing of a single property more than once on the web site at the same time. A duplicate is defined as the same physical property listed under more than one property ID. Office condos with the same physical address are exempt as long as a unit number is included in the address field. Land parcel listings are excluded as long as the sum total of all individual parcels listed does not exceed the total acreage available at the physical site. AlanNewhomes reserves the right to remove any and all properties that are determined to be duplicates with or without contacting the listing broker. Customers may, however, list a property for sale and for lease at the same time.
Space Listings AlanNewhomes prohibits the listing of the same space more than once on the web site at the same time. A space listing is defined as a single suite or unit of space listed for lease. AlanNewhomes provides minimum divisible/maximum contiguous options for divisible space and up to three (3) subcategories for space type under space detail. Total space available in a building cannot exceed the total square footage of the building. AlanNewhomes reserves the right to combine duplicate space listings into a single listing or to remove the listing from the system with or without contacting the listing broker.
Use of Photographs and Videos
Building photographs and videos posted, attached, or affixed to listings must be actual photographs and videos of the building being listed. All such photographs and videos must be either (a) the property of the listing broker or (b) the listing broker must have received all necessary rights and authorizations, including from the photographer and/or copyright owner of any photographs and videos, to publish such photographs and videos on the Customer's website or on AlanNewhomes's website for the purpose of advertising the subject property. Photographs uploaded and Videos that are not directly related to the building or property being listed, including brokerage company logos, may be removed at the discretion of AlanNewhomes.
Prohibited Conduct
Customers are advised to refrain from engaging in the conduct specified in this section, as it is not permitted on the AlanNewhomes Service.
Billboard Listings
Listings on AlanNewhomes are for properties that are currently offered for Sale or Lease. It is not permitted to post listings on the Service that have already been sold or are no longer on the market, i.e. posting listings on the Service for marketing or advertising purposes (Billboard Listings).
Keyword Manipulation
AlanNewhomes offers the ability to search for properties on key words. This is designed to enable searchers to narrow their criteria based on specific requirements. Keyword manipulation is unfair to searchers by returning listings that clearly do not meet their criteria. Keywords identified in the property name, property description, location description or property highlights field that are clearly not relevant to the property being marketed will be removed by Listing Review. Habitual abuse of this policy by a Customer may, at the sole discretion of AlanNewhomes, lead to the removal of all of that Customers active listings from the web site and suspension of that Customers ability to list properties on the Service.
Offensive Language
Use of profanity or vulgar language in any section of the AlanNewhomes database is strictly prohibited. This includes the use of language that is generally considered obscene, profane, sexual, hateful, or racist in nature. Listing or user information that includes profane language will be removed from the Service immediately. Customers posting such language to the AlanNewhomes web site may be subject to disciplinary action, including indefinite suspension of a Customers account, temporary suspension or a formal warning.