Tag: home selling tips
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New Year’s Resolution: Expand Your New Home Sales
Read more: New Year’s Resolution: Expand Your New Home SalesNew Year’s is a perfect time to evaluate our goals. Here are tangible ways to prepare for helping your clients (and your business) in the coming year. Especially if you work in a tight housing market, new construction can be a crucial component of your real estate business. Expanding your new home sales starts…
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4 Things Realtors® Should Pin (Beyond MLS Listings)
Read more: 4 Things Realtors® Should Pin (Beyond MLS Listings)Pinterest may seem like low-hanging fruit in your social media marketing plan. It’s photography-driven, text-minimal, evergreen, appealing to a major homebuying demographic, great for driving website traffic, easy to use and—best of all—free, except for the time you invest in it and any money you spend boosting pins.Using Pinterest to its best advantage, however, means…
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Why Show New Homes to Short-sale Shoppers?
Read more: Why Show New Homes to Short-sale Shoppers?Shopping foreclosure and short-sale homes can be a frustrating experience. The homes may be in poor condition and clients could lose excitement in the buying process. Here are five reasons to consider showing new homes, even if you specialize in lender-owned resale properties. Your clients may be surprised at what they can afford—a beautiful…
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Handy Real Estate Articles for You (and Your Clients)
Read more: Handy Real Estate Articles for You (and Your Clients)Have you been keeping an eye on Homeward, our blog for homebuyers, home sellers and happy homeowners? If not, here are a few recent articles you may want to share with your clients: 4 things a real estate agent can do for you (other than show homes!) Are your clients aware of all the work…
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Drone Photography for Real Estate—Get the Latest!
Read more: Drone Photography for Real Estate—Get the Latest!Drone photography has already made a huge impact on real estate marketing, and now that the FAA has finally released guidelines for commercial drone use, the aerial photography market is poised to take off. What is drone photography? A drone is a small Unmanned Aircraft System (also known as a sUAS, UAS or, alternatively, as…
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Why Sell New Homes? Lower Insurance Premiums!
Read more: Why Sell New Homes? Lower Insurance Premiums!Are your clients weighing new and resale homes in their search? Clue them in on this lesser-known benefit of buying new: newly built homes typically have lower insurance premiums than older homes. Many factors are used to determine homeowners insurance rates, including the home’s location, risk factors (e.g., swimming pools and trampolines on the property)…
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Good Reads for Real Estate Agents
Read more: Good Reads for Real Estate AgentsIf you’ve enjoyed Homebased, be sure to check out our sister blog for homebuyers, Homeward! Recent stories include… Prepping your home for a real estate photographer This article may help you coach your clients for the day of their photo shoot. Let us be the ones to tell them to pack away their knickknacks and…
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Listing Typos: Good for a Laugh; Bad for Business
Read more: Listing Typos: Good for a Laugh; Bad for BusinessBetween touchscreen keyboards, overzealous autocorrect and the average agent’s hectic schedule, it’s a wonder there aren’t more typos on the MLS. But, when they do happen, they can be a big buyer turn-off. Redfin® teamed up with the grammar experts at Grammarly® to survey just how important a polished real estate listing is to homebuyers.…