After surviving one of the more difficult real estate climates in decades, Fort Collins real estate agents Eric Sachs and Nathan Froelich have launched a website aimed at helping fellow professionals make it through tough times.

BreakthroughBroker.com, launched in February, contains information about local markets, as well as markets in other parts of the country. The site was borne of a desire to provide brokers with all the resources they need to effectively sell homes in one place, for free.

The same sort of market-level information is available from a variety of sources, but, as Sachs points out, brokers must typically visit a multitude of sites to find it. Moreover, they’re typically “nickel and dimed” paying for access to different sites, he said.

In addition, existing sites are not “agent-centric,” in Sachs’ opinion.

A former Fort Collins police officer, Sachs founded a brokerage, called Infinity Group Realty, with Froelich in 2005. At first, he thought that the issues with existing sites were a problem only for small brokerages that didn’t have the manpower to conduct research of their own.

In 2010, their brokerage was purchased by a