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Best Places to Advertise Your Home for Sale Online

Published by Joseph Ferrara (2) August 1st, 2008 in Marketing tips. Comments

According to Corcoran Group founder Barbara Corcoran, on today’s TODAY show, the best places to advertise a home for sale online are craigslist.org and Zillow.com.

Other Seller tips from Barbara’s blog:

1. Price your home 10-15% below the competition.  Buyers are attracted to the best deals in town and you can get the sale price bid up, even in a down market

2.  Get rid of your stuff and stage the home.  One of the biggest problems is clutter.

3. Hire a “killer” broker, one who is a specialist in your market and housing type and consider paying a higher commission (8%) when the market is tough.

4.  Don’t ignore the first buyer offer, even if a lowball.  Buyers feel obligated to lowball.  Engage the buyer and counteroffer.

Great advice from a real estate legend.

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  • Sellers: Also know that your listing is automatically added to all broker IDX websites - like www.roost.com. IDX sites provide free advertising for all homes for sale in each market.
  • Those seller tips are great. Pricing your home below the competition and/or just a tad below market value is a good strategy, although I realize hard to do.
  • I can only imagine the eye rolling going on (my own are stuck in an upward position) over jumping to an 8% commission- PLEASE. What a clear demonstration of the lack of thought for consumers overall- and the absurd notion that a "killer" real estate agent (at a higher fee) will make the difference- it would seem that lowering the price further would be of much more interest to buyers. This is THEIR market, like it or not- a buyers agent would have a very difficult time accepting this solution (fiduciary??), and sellers are probably laughing out loud. Not good for the perception of the real estate industry overall- and insulting to ALL consumers. Maybe it's just me. While the rest of the suggestions are fine, it's not rocket science.
  • CRay
    ... I think we need to get Barbara Corcoran out of her $80,000 Limo's and get her back to a little reality on the streets ...

    .. You have agents that haven't seen a paycheck in months .. you have Consumer Reports, Market Watch and a dozen others great publications demanding consumers negotiate their commissions to 4% or less ... but Barbara thinks consumers should pay 8% .l.o.l..

    .. Barbara were you sober when you recommended that.? -- come out of that Limo and look around...



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  • Natalie
    I'm a real estate agent and I agree with you. If your agent isn't willing to do a "killer" job for you at 2%-3% take home for them then they are probably in the game for themselves and not for you. My best advice is to lower the price-that's what gets your home more traffic and everyone know more traffic means more potential for offers.
    Natalie Filbert-Eagle Rock Properties, Idaho
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