More and more home buyers are using Internet when searching for a home. According to the National Association of Realtor Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, 77% of home buyers use the web as a resource to buy a house online and there are about half a million websites hawking dream homes.
When it comes to buying your house and finding the best deal on a mortgage loan, the Internet can be a huge help. Today, it is a common practice to find and buy a house online. All major real estate companies, and many smaller regional ones as well, provide their own web sites where potential home buyers can browse available homes at their leisure. These web sites allow home buyers to screen homes based on price, location, number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms and a myriad of other items.
Banks, credit unions and mortgage brokers also allow the potential buyer to get pre-approved for a mortgage. Pre-qualification on a mortgage means the potential buyer will know exactly where he or she stands and how much he or she can borrow before they start the search.
Armed with information like how much home you can afford, it is time to hit the Internet and find the home of your dreams. You can start with the web site of any major national real estate broker. You can either limit your home search to their properties, or you can use their web site as a starting point to search the Multi-Listing Service (MLS).
The internet allows the potential home buyer to limit their search to the amount they can afford. Searches can be further filtered by type of home, number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, garage space, acreage and a host of other factors. Searches can also be limited to a city, town or ZIP code. The search criteria of real estate web sites is very broad, and this can make searching the internet for a home a real snap.
In addition to searching current homes, the web sites of real estate companies allow interested home buyers to sign up for email alerts. These alerts notify the prospective buyer when a new home comes on the market. You can be assured of being the first to know about a home that fits your specific needs.
In addition to the many web sites run by real estate companies, there are many web sites run by the various for sale by owner companies. More and more homeowners are choosing to forgo the real estate agent, and the real estate commission, in favor of a fixed price system that provides support but allows the homeowner to show and sell their own house. These for sale by owner web sites generally offer the same sort of search criteria as the web sites of the major national real estate firms. A for sale by owner situation can provide an excellent way to buy a home, and working directly with the seller can sometimes provide an excellent benefit.
The latest real estate trend is to buy a house online. No matter what part of the country you live in, or what type of home you are buying, the internet can help you quickly narrow your search and focus your times on the properties that are best suited to your lifestyle and budget. The internet allows you to browse for hours at your leisure, and then print a list of prime properties to investigate either on your own or with the help of your real estate professional.
Jumat, 02 Januari 2009
Selling Property With An Online Estate Agent
The arrival of the Internet has afforded Estate Agents the opportunity to both improve their property selling services and reduce their costs. Estate Agents that take this route and pass on the savings to the home seller are called Online Estate Agents.
Online estate agents usually have fewer offices than traditional high street Estate Agents and offer coverage over a wider area. Local knowledge may be lower than established local Estate Agents whilst their Internet presence (and therefore their ability to sell houses) is generally greater.
If you want to sell your property quickly and economically but still want expert help then Home.co.uk suggest that an Online Estate Agent could be the answer. Our recommended online estate agents are listed below.
Recommended Online Estate Agents:
Hatched - Powerful and low cost property marketing
Housenetwork - Save money with an online agent: great service, lowest fees
Halfapercent - Full service online estate agency. Sales fees start from 0.5% "
HouseSimple - Widest online property marketing with 3 low fee options Online Estate Agents Simply4Property - New fixed-fee online estate agency
HouseRevolution.com - This online estate agent is a relative newcomer.
Brightsale.co.uk - Brightsale claims to be the 'fastest growing online estate agent' but at 0.5% the service is more expensive than most other online estate agencies. Unfortunately they give few details. (home.co.uk)
Online estate agents usually have fewer offices than traditional high street Estate Agents and offer coverage over a wider area. Local knowledge may be lower than established local Estate Agents whilst their Internet presence (and therefore their ability to sell houses) is generally greater.
If you want to sell your property quickly and economically but still want expert help then Home.co.uk suggest that an Online Estate Agent could be the answer. Our recommended online estate agents are listed below.
Recommended Online Estate Agents:
Hatched - Powerful and low cost property marketing
Housenetwork - Save money with an online agent: great service, lowest fees
Halfapercent - Full service online estate agency. Sales fees start from 0.5% "
HouseSimple - Widest online property marketing with 3 low fee options Online Estate Agents Simply4Property - New fixed-fee online estate agency
HouseRevolution.com - This online estate agent is a relative newcomer.
Brightsale.co.uk - Brightsale claims to be the 'fastest growing online estate agent' but at 0.5% the service is more expensive than most other online estate agencies. Unfortunately they give few details. (home.co.uk)
Selling Your Property
Private Property Sales
Selling your home privately not only enables you to save thousands of pounds, it makes sense from a marketing point of view. The Internet offers an enormous advertising medium and we can expose and promote your property to a huge audience of potential buyers.
It used to be difficult to market your property: you were limited to newspaper adverts, for-sale signboards and word-of-mouth. Now there's a host of websites on which you can promote your property sale to anyone with Internet access across the UK and around the world.
Selling via an Online Estate Agent
If you're feeling less confident or simply don't have the time to manage a private property sale then it's probably best to enlist the services of an estate agent to conduct the sale of your property.
When choosing an estate agent one new option is to use an online estate agent. Online estate agents offer similar services to traditional estate agents but generally charge a much lower commission. What's more: they really know how to get your property sold quickly using the power of the Internet.
Selling via a Traditional Estate Agent
Selling a Property at Auction
Property auctions are a very effective way of selling a home quickly. If you simply don't have the time or patience to find a home buyer on the open market a sale at auction may be your best solution.
Selling your home privately not only enables you to save thousands of pounds, it makes sense from a marketing point of view. The Internet offers an enormous advertising medium and we can expose and promote your property to a huge audience of potential buyers.
It used to be difficult to market your property: you were limited to newspaper adverts, for-sale signboards and word-of-mouth. Now there's a host of websites on which you can promote your property sale to anyone with Internet access across the UK and around the world.
Selling via an Online Estate Agent
If you're feeling less confident or simply don't have the time to manage a private property sale then it's probably best to enlist the services of an estate agent to conduct the sale of your property.
When choosing an estate agent one new option is to use an online estate agent. Online estate agents offer similar services to traditional estate agents but generally charge a much lower commission. What's more: they really know how to get your property sold quickly using the power of the Internet.
Selling via a Traditional Estate Agent
Selling a Property at Auction
Property auctions are a very effective way of selling a home quickly. If you simply don't have the time or patience to find a home buyer on the open market a sale at auction may be your best solution.
Real estate, Byggnadsfirma Olov Lindgren invests in Sweden
The group of Stockholm Byggnadsfirma Olov Lindgren has purchased a complex of offices in Stockholm, which covers an area of 2,500 square meters.
The complex was sold by the real property Swedish Fabege, one of the major company in the commercial sector.
The complex was sold by the real property Swedish Fabege, one of the major company in the commercial sector.
Hartlebury Park, Forest Garden becomes the main tenant
The British company Forest Garden has leased an additional area of 7.200 square meters inside the industrial park of Hartlebury, the village in the county of Worcestershire.
The company specializes in the production of timber becomes the principal tenant:
the group indeed have a surface of about 19 thousand square meters, equivalent to 60% more space. (realigro.com)
The company specializes in the production of timber becomes the principal tenant:
the group indeed have a surface of about 19 thousand square meters, equivalent to 60% more space. (realigro.com)
Why don't estate agents just give-up press advertising altogether?
The reason is two-fold:
1. Sellers who use estate agents expect to see their property in the local paper.
The tendency is for them to feel that their estate agent is not doing his job properly unless a picture of their house shows-up in print
However, these homeowners don't appreciate just how ineffective (relative to the Internet) the local paper is as a marketing tool.Because of this, until home sellers become comfortable with not seeing an advert in print, estate agents will have to keep providing them for fear of losing business.
2. All estate agents know that the local press is where most potential sellers research which agents they'll invite for a valuation.
Estate Agents are scared that if they don't have any presence in the local press, they won't be invited by potential sellers to give any valuations.
They will then loose out on the opportunity to convince sellers to become their clients.
Press advertising has little to do with finding buyers so please have no doubt in your mind....One or more of the major Property Portals, a "For Sale" board (& possibly an advert in "Loot") is all you need! (theadvisory.co.uk)
1. Sellers who use estate agents expect to see their property in the local paper.
The tendency is for them to feel that their estate agent is not doing his job properly unless a picture of their house shows-up in print
However, these homeowners don't appreciate just how ineffective (relative to the Internet) the local paper is as a marketing tool.Because of this, until home sellers become comfortable with not seeing an advert in print, estate agents will have to keep providing them for fear of losing business.
2. All estate agents know that the local press is where most potential sellers research which agents they'll invite for a valuation.
Estate Agents are scared that if they don't have any presence in the local press, they won't be invited by potential sellers to give any valuations.
They will then loose out on the opportunity to convince sellers to become their clients.
Press advertising has little to do with finding buyers so please have no doubt in your mind....One or more of the major Property Portals, a "For Sale" board (& possibly an advert in "Loot") is all you need! (theadvisory.co.uk)
What's this got to do with Your Private Sale?
It's import for you to understand why property papers still exist and why you should not feel you're missing out by not advertising within them ("Loot" being the only notable exception).
Estate Agents widely acknowledge that the "Top 5 property portals" and "For Sale" boards (it's not uncommon for anything between 30-50% of buyer enquiries to come from boards) are the most effective marketing tools they can use to attract buyers.
Print advertising is:
- Expensive
- Ineffective
- Often out of date
- Almost resented by many estate agents
In fact, Richard Rawlings (one of the leading marketing consultants for the Estate Agency Industry) believes that 90% of the people reading the local property newspapers are not even looking to buy or sell at that time.
Estate Agents widely acknowledge that the "Top 5 property portals" and "For Sale" boards (it's not uncommon for anything between 30-50% of buyer enquiries to come from boards) are the most effective marketing tools they can use to attract buyers.
Print advertising is:
- Expensive
- Ineffective
- Often out of date
- Almost resented by many estate agents
In fact, Richard Rawlings (one of the leading marketing consultants for the Estate Agency Industry) believes that 90% of the people reading the local property newspapers are not even looking to buy or sell at that time.
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