Dow Jones’ MarketWatch recently published 6 tips for those planning on selling without a real estate agent. Aside from the basics, (staging it properly, having the proper support lined up, etc.) they gave the following advice:
[ask] at least three agents for a free comparative market analysis before setting an asking price — as long as [...]
Great piece in today’s NY Times on the trend of the “property entertainment” on channels such as HGTV and A&E.
TV Land – New York Times
I’ll admit I’ve sat down and watch a few of these shows from time to time, but I don’t find them terribly entertaining. If I’m going to watch “reality” television [...]
The Chicago Tribune did a nice summary of the use of video in selling real estate today and called me for comment. I think it came out pretty well. You can read the whole article here – Sellers shoot for YouTube hits.
Some other mentioned in the article; WellcomeMat and MLPodcast (though not by name – [...]
This has been reported elsewhere, but I thought I should update any readers who may have missed it.
Thanks to some sleuthing from Kevin at 3 Oceans Real Estate Blog, Redfin released a correction to its controversial claim that Redfin agents more effective negotiator. Apparently they were off by just a hair in their calculations.
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A little self-congratulatory note here. The Future of Real Estate Marketing just passed 1000 readers on its Feedburner subscription chicklet today. This is a pretty big personal milestone for me, so I’m pretty excited.
Thanks to everyone who stops by this blog and a big thank you to all the readers who read my feed daily. [...]
The Wellcomemat Blog just posted a behind the scenes look at Doug Heddings‘ (of True Gotham fame) video shoot. Doug’s presentation is one of my favorite examples of how to show a property online.
Watch how they put it together.
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A few weeks back I moved my blog roll off my home page and on it’s own page – mainly because it was starting to take up way too much screen real estate.
One by product of the move unfortunately, was I no longer had clear a way to promote newer, upcoming blogs or highlight those [...]
David Krug from 901am.com recommends all real estate agents should start blogging.
Remember when real estate agents hired high schoolers to flyer homes? This was the old days. Now the tables and technology has grown and real estate agents understand the need to market online now more than ever. This is a unique situation for blogging [...]
James Hagerty at the Wall St. Journal looked at Zillow’s Zestimates today. (Read How Good Are Zillow’s Estimates?) So what does he come up with?
A Wall Street Journal analysis of 1,000 recent home sales shows that Zillow’s “Zestimates” often are very good, frequently within a few percentage points of the actual price paid. But [...]
I sat down recently and banged out an interview with the guys from Nestoria, the UK based property search engine. If you’re interested, you can read the full interview here.
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