The real estate housing market in the Dallas area is still very good with home sales prices up in almost every Metroplex city. The down market for us has been mainly slower home sales which I’d take any day over a dramatic drop in sales prices. With slower sales, what can you do to help drive traffic to your home increasing your chances at finding the right home buyer to sell your home quickly?
This is where technology can really help! Today, over 80% of home buyers begin their home search online. While home buyers are viewing homes online, they are spending the majority of their time looking at a home’s pictures. Pictures speak a thousand words… especially when you only have a few hundred words available for an MLS listing description.
It absolutely amazes me that a Realtor would bother listing a home online without posting a photo with it immediately. Tens of Thousands of potential home buyers receive “just listed” properties emailed to them each month from our website, TexasHomeCentral.com. If an agent fails to post that home with at least a few pictures, most of those home buyers will not give that property a second look.
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