Top 25 Important Things for First-Time Home Sellers Selling your first home might seem a little like watching your oldest teenager move away to go to college. It’s a big change for you and for them and anxiety is a normal reaction. After all, this is the first one and you’re not sure of the…
Zillow Real Estate Company The company known as Zillow enjoys having the real estate website with the most traffic. That would surprise most home buyers and sellers, but the truth is, Zillow has deliberately built a very strong presence in the real estate market and has embraced the Internet to serve buyers and sellers. The…
Toronto Housing Market Home sales and prices in the Toronto GTA market rose in May while home prices reached an average of $1.2 million. The fact that home prices are back up near where they were during the boom is an astounding fact. And TRREB reiterated its belief that government’s lack of support for home…
Mississauga Housing Market The story of residential real estate in the Mississauga/Milton/Oakville region is one seen across Canada as higher mortgage rates are pricing a growing number of buyers out of the market. And with a ban on foreign purchases of property, the Mississauga buyer market profile has changed greatly. Canadian buyers struggle to find…
A Real Estate Agent Near Me Home prices peaked in summer 2022, but sales prices are still very high right across the US. There is a grand opportunity, if you make good choices to get close to your imagined selling price. Although the government is pushing the economy into recession, it will take some time….
Florida Housing Supply Dries Up The Florida housing market remains one of the hottest housing markets in 2022 despite a continually diminished listings of Florida homes for sale. The lack of housing construction is a topic I’ve been writing about for years. It’s due to government policies (NIMBY) resistance to new housing development and it’s…
Buyer and Seller Real Estate Leads Acquiring leads and especially seller leads has been especially difficult for a couple of years now. Homeowners haven’t been eager to sell for a variety of reasons. Given how competitive the online medium is, it’s important for Realtors to commit to a thorough real estate marketing service package. And…
Find Houses for Sale If you’re used to hunting through the MLS listings, you know the pickings are slim. To find a house in 2021, you have to broaden and refine your home search strategy. You may not be successful until 2022, You may not be successful until 2022, however the point is that the…
Awesome WordPress RETS IDX Real Estate Websites Your real estate website can generate leads if it possesses powerful features such a RETS IDX feed. An IDX based site lets you leverage all the MLS listings right on our site, as if those listings were your own. That’s your IDX data feed and helps in your…
2021 Could be a Boom Year Few home sellers will argue against the idea that selling their home in 2021 won’t be a profitable experience. With prices so high in the absence of supply, prices will rocket. And prices did rocket in 2021. And most Realtors will believe that this should be their best sales…
Compass Real Estate AI Features Compass Realty has made quite a splash in the US real estate market. This brokerage aims to be one of the biggest in the nation and to bring the power of technology to their real estate team. And with their recent influx of $470 million in recent venture funding, they’re…
Selling Fast May Mean a Lower Price As I mentioned in another post on selling for a higher price, and sell house fast, speed isn’t a factor on a listing. In fact, the faster you sell the more likely the market hasn’t discovered your property. In fact, getting rid of your precious real estate asset…
Houses for Sale in Los Angeles Finding great homes for sale right now in Los Angeles is a tough challenge. Active home listings have diminished which means home prices will rise. Read more on the rebounding Los Angeles real estate market and the full California housing market and where it’s headed. This info might help…
What’s Wrong with My Real Estate Site? Why doesn’t my site produce traffic or leads? 3 Reasons: it doesn’t have reach via Google, Ads, Facebook, or Linkedin it doesn’t create value or appears you offer no satisfaction it doesn’t engage and generate emotion it doesn’t persuade or convince Let’s Take the First Issue: Google A good…
How Sell Your Home for the Best Price in 2020 The market is heating up again this spring of 2020. Like so many homeowners, you’re wondering if this is the right time to sell? Perhaps you’ll be forced to sell if you’ve lost your job. The Corona Virus recession might be ending in a few…
Homes for Sale We’re into the summer house hunting season of 2021. This one is shaping up to be a good one, when compare it to last year. However, a lack of houses for sale is definitely making the home search a challenge. For buyer’s today, a good home search strategy is necessary. With home…
Federal Courts Rule in Favour of Anti Trust Legislators Back in 2017, the Federal Court of Appeal has upheld an April, 2016 decision made by Canada’s Competition Tribunal. It ordered the Toronto Real Estate Board to allow its members to share the sales histories of listed properties online. This ruling relates as well to the…
Compare RETS vs FTP IDX Feeds The first thing visiting homebuyers want to see on your real estate website are home listings. But when they arrive, they may get a troublesome map widget to frustrate them, or mls listing pages with uninteresting and non-engaging pics and descriptions. What’s worse, is that your current listings aren’t…
Realtors Biggest Pain From Dallas to New York and San Francisco CA, Big Picture realtors hate technical details. You want easy to understand, tangible, measurable deliverables such as guaranteed leads yet the legit real estate marketing world has little to offer. Success is complicated and not everything comes in neat packages. SEO and social media and websites…
Find a Home for Sale and Hire a Great Agent The Los Angeles MLS® Listings, Los Angeles Zillow Listings or the LA Trulia Listings are all good sources of home listings you can peruse. You’re bound to reveal some excellent houses and condos for sale in the specific region of LA you want to live in the property…