Melbourne Real Estate News, Brevard County FL Real Estate by Sandy Shores REALTOR®

I'd love to read the whole article where these stats came from if you could let me know.  Thanks Great Info

Hi Doris,

I found the information quite interesting. 

I read the first statistic in an online magazine.

I jotted down the rest of the information at a Real Estate seminar last week. It was sponsored by a Web Site building company that is an affiliate member of our local Board of Realtors.  

Best wishes! 

 

I have heard this too. I think it makes our property marketing easier, not to mention, cheaper!

Yes these are great statistics.  I advertise heavily on the internet via Realtor.com, Trulia, and Home Gain.  I would rather invest my ad dollars there than in local print media.  I do,  however, still advertise my open houses in the Sunday paper.  But that's about it.  Statistics are great for listing presentations as well and can help justify how you advertise a client's home.  Many people, older people in particular, are still used to print ads and don't place a lot of confidence in online ads.  Stats really help to convince them.  Best of luck to you.

 

Jolynna,

I have to agree with you on older people still enjoying print ads.  My father is 73 years old, has never used a computer in his life, and never wants to!  So, I suppose as you mentioned we should remember to cater to our retirees.

Best wishes to you! 

Sandy - The majority of our leads come from our website and our postings on realtor.com, trulia, etc.  75-80% come from our own website because it comes up in the top few spots in all the search engines for our area. However, we advertise in the local homes and land magazine, also, and we get calls from every issue on our listings. There are still a lot of people out there who are just not comfortable searching for real estate online - it does take a basic level of computer and internet skill.

Got to be online!  May you find great success!

John Gray, McKenzie Valley Realtor

 

I find that even a lot of seniors are embracing the internet for real estate these days.

I know many that are quite internet savvy.  However, I do know a good majority of them that don't have computers at all, thus I suppose they would be the exception to these statistics.

Interesting.  It does not surprise me.  Hope one of those buyers finds me!

I guarantee that one of those people will find you.  I have been contacted 7 times in the past 2 weeks from people looking to buy in my area!  I will let you know if any of them turns into a sale. And ironically I have had my website down for construction over the past 2 weeks!  Funny huh?

We can track many of our sales to the marketing that we specifically have on the Internet. We will normally produce a video for each of our listings. A couple years ago a buyer (who we had not met) came up to us and stated "You're world famous". Not knowing exactly made us world famous again, we just stated "As it should be". He had sent links to the video of his new home to friend around the world. It was great seeing how much traffic was generated.

 I think it depends on your area & who your clientele are.   The  only way to know where the buyers come from is to test test test,  In my area we have a strong ethnic community that does not use the internet  they are more apt to use a real estate book 

today I worked with 2 buyers - both internet leads.