What do buyers look for, or look out for when purchasing Traverse City real estate and the five county surrounding areas? This article is designed to help sellers evaluate the important aspects of selling a home and what potential buyers want. more...
Pending Traverse City Home Sales Up 3 Months in a Row!
Pending home sales rose for the third consecutive month in April, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors; with some economists saying enough consecutive positive traction has occurred to call a possible bottom in the U.S. housing market. According to a Tuesday release by NAR, the trade organization’s gauge of contracts signed in April rose by 6.7% to 90.3, up from March’s reading of 84.6. more...
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The days of Googling your keywords to measure the effectiveness of your SEO strategy are coming to an end. According to Bruce Clay of PubCon, there will be big changes in ranking. In the name of Top Shelp Organic SEO, Google will be tuning into the specific behaviors of individual users to serve up more customized results.
What this means to the end-user is better results and less spam. more...
In this economy of intense competition, it is easy to get stressed out at the thought of learning new techniques to getting your listings out in the public eye. But, there is no need to completely abandon traditional marketing strategies. The best advertising and marketing strategy is to diversify your marketing to reach a larger target audience. In order to do this properly, you must more...
Curb appeal - it isn't what it used to be. There was a time when a savvy agent could get a buyer to overlook 'flaws' seen from the road. Well in today's online world, curb appeal has taken on a whole new meaning.
When buyers scan listings on REALTOR.com(r) or other real estate websites, if they aren't impressed with the photos in THREE SECONDS, they "bounce" and click onto the next listing. No matter how many print ads, how many brochures, baseball + football schedule refrigerator magnets they mail, the photos are the be all, end all for getting a listing noticed online. more...
The Real Estate Industry has some strange peculiarities that are particular to Real Estate and that I don’t think are appreciated by the average citizen, at least here in Alcona County, Michigan. To give you an idea of what I mean take a look some of these oddities.
· How many businesses do you know sign a contract with someone expecting them to provide services, spend a lot of money in advertising, and to expend an undisclosed amount of time, work and mileage to fulfill their part of the bargain with no money exchanged; in other words, all at the agent’s expense? more...
