Capture Home Buyers’ Attention With These Real Estate Photography Techniques
Is there one real estate photography technique to rule them all? Photos are essential when it comes to marketing your new listing both online and in print. Over 96% of home buyers search listings online before scheduling a showing. While there are a number of ways to produce real estate photography images for your MLS […]
A Recipe for a Successful Content Strategy for Real Estate
Content is the food that real estate marketing feeds off of. Republished blog piece – original date, Jan 1, 2017 Without regular, healthy content, your marketing campaigns will starve. With too much irrelevant content, your time spent on campaigns’ will increase and budgets will fatten up without a strong ROI. A simple content strategy […]
Home prices rose 6.9% in April and will keep climbing: CoreLogic
By Veronika Bondarenko | Source Inman House prices will increase another 5.3 percent through April 2019, according to the latest CoreLogic Home Price Index Report CoreLogic released its Home Price Index (HPI) and HPI Forecast data for April 2018, showing how home prices have increased year-over-year, and more is it come. Across the U.S., home prices rose by […]
A simple 3-step system to get more clients as a newbie
By Pat Hiban | Source Inman To market your real estate business effectively, you must communicate your value clearly and consistently Key Takeaways Finding a real estate niche is the key to getting more clients. Despite what many agents think, niching brings in more business, not less. Want to get more clients but aren’t sure […]
The 4 biggest benefits of having a website as a real estate agent
by Larry Alton | Source BiggerPockets.com Real estate agents aren’t always given the credit they deserve as marketers. People tend to view them as salespeople and negotiators. But when you think about it, they’re essentially expert marketers who are tasked with selling expensive products to consumers. As such, it makes sense that real estate agents would want to build […]
7 Outdoor improvement projects you can start—and finish—this weekend
By Jennifer Geddes | Source realtor.com Photo by Virtuance Warmer weather offers the perfect opportunity to get started on a home improvement project. But if you’re anything like us, you probably fear starting something you can’t finish, especially when there are so many summer distractions. Pool parties, vacations, that new season of “Arrested Development”—you name […]
Coldwell Banker’s new tech predicts who’s about to list their home for sale
By Marian McPherson | Source Inman News The company’s new tool CBx Seller Leads uses big data, predictive analytics and machine learning to identify homeowners who are most likely to sell Earlier this week, Coldwell Banker announced the launch of CBx Seller Leads, a tool that uses big data, machine learning and predictive analytics to help […]
100-Year-Old Wash Park Bungalow Finds Buyer
After just 23 days on the market, this dreamy Wash Park bungalow went under contract Photo by Virtuance Located in one of Denver’s most desirable neighborhoods, this quaint bungalow listed for $1.24 million and went U/C within the same month. After processing these twilight images, we knew that this listing would go fast! Don’t let […]
Owning is the new renting: home ownership trends upward as U.S. loses renter households
By Laura Kusisto | Source realtor.com Rising wages, loosening credit standards and demographic shifts are all creating momentum for owning rather than renting. The homeownership rate rose from the prior year for the fifth consecutive quarter in 2018, according to U.S. Census data released Thursday. It held steady at 64.2%, unchanged from the prior quarter […]
Realtor Sold a Record-Setting 3,556 Homes in One Year
By Judy Dutton | Source realtor.com The Guinness World Records recognizes all kinds of superlatives, from the largest pizza (13,580.28 square feet) to the fastest hovercraft (85.38 mph). But no real estate agent has ever entered Guinness’ international pantheon, until now. Meet Ben Caballero, a Realtor® and broker in Addison, TX, who was just recognized as achieving “the […]