Yachtr Online Yacht Listings

Yachtr is adding features such as videos to help people searching for yachts get to know professional brokers better.
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Yachtr came online about a year ago and has been growing. More than 14,000 boats are now listed. Courtesy IYBA/Yachtr

The IYBA is an association of brokers that created the yacht-shopping site Yachtr, which keeps adding broker-bio features, most recently videos. The goal is to help shoppers feel more comfortable with the brokers they’re contacting.

“The only information on that page is the listing broker’s information: his name, his cellphone number, his email address directly,” says COO Paul Flannery. “They’re not being routed through some switchboard. They’re not being sent to somebody who has a rooster crowing in the background and has to take their information and call them back. If you see a 72-foot Viking that you like, at the bottom of the page is Carmine Galati’s picture, his name, his face, his email address, his phone number and a link to his bio. You get a chance to know him a little bit.”

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