Archive for September, 2009

Create A Single Property Website In Just Five Minutes!

Building a website for your listings is a simple and extremely useful way to win listings, keep sellers happy and keep buyers interested. Surveys show that 90% of real estate buyers are using the Internet these days to search for homes. One of your major goals as a real estate professional is to make sure [...]

Drive Traffic to your Agent Site with an Email Signature

One of the easiest ways to promote a website – any website – is to add a link to it at the end of your emails. Think about it: how many emails do you send each day? For most of us, when we count outgoing emails, responses and forwarded messages, this comes to at least [...]

Nice use of Listing Details

Nice going Walt Heffley who used our ‘Listing Details’ feature.  Now his website has ALL the info that buyers want to see at the click of a button! Check it out at www.5811w157.com

Listing Domains Launches new Flash Image Gallery

ATTN ListingDomains users! We have just released our new Flash Slide Show control that can display your property photos FULL SCREEN at FULL RESOLUTION. Our dynamic resizer will optimize and display your photos to fit any size monitor. Our enhanced slide show features include: Unlimited Photos Dragable Thumbnail Strip Photo Captions Set Your Image Timing [...]

Do FSBO’s really save any money?

Interesting thoughts on FSBO properties.  Check it out at http://activerain.com/blogsview/1250020/so-you-want-to-save-the-commission-

Use Social Media to Promote Your Listings

If you’re not participating in social media yet, you should. It’s where everyone is – including your potential clients and other real estate professionals. Needless to say, you should be part of social media too! Social media works very well for real estate marketing, because it’s natural. You join a social network such as, say, [...]

Agent websites: The Importance of built-in Social Networking Tools

Social media is a powerful real estate marketing tool. Unlike traditional real estate marketing, where you basically “dump” information on people hoping to entice them, social media marketing is all about having a two-way conversation with people, building long-term relationships and cultivating trust. The result: when it’s time for people to use a real estate [...]

An Agent Website Can Help You Sell

A professional-looking, easy to navigate agent website should be a big part of your real estate marketing strategy. We are real estate professionals too: we know that as a real estate professional you work hard each and every day to manage your business and to show potential clients that you are different – and better [...]

Bankrate: Mortgage Rates Move Down

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 5.41 percent, according to Bankrate.com’s weekly national survey. The average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.27 discount and origination points.

The average 15-year fixed and jumbo 30-year fixed mortgage rates dropped by equal amounts, to 4.74 percent and 6.34 percent, respectively. Adjustable rate mortgages were mixed, with the average 1-year ARM rising to 5.15 percent and the 5-year ARM inching lower to 4.94 percent.