We all know that the internet has a huge impact on everday life and business, It is also changing the way we all do our dealings in Real Estate.
Many of us only use the internet for house hunting and finding an agent and this is taking over the traditional methods of walking into an agents office and dealing face to face.
Mike Andrews has some facinating information that i would like to share with you:
1. Home buyers and sellers consider approximately two agents on average before making a final decision.
•2.• The Internet impacts consumer trust. Forty percent of respondents credited a site in increasing their trust in the agent.
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3. 74 percent of people who accessed an agent Web site got there with the help of a search engine.
4. The on line research process is quick and intense: consumers spent an average of 12 hours online researching agents and 75 percent selected an agent within one week of starting their search.
Mike has alot of interesting post, you can view these at:
September 8, 2008 at 4:10 am |
Thanks Mark, good luck with your blogging and I look forward to reading more of your posts.
Mike
September 8, 2008 at 4:28 am |
Really interesting and informative information Mark. Thank you for taking the time! Samantha
September 9, 2008 at 1:49 am |
Mark,
what do you think the percentage of buyers are actually looking on the internet for a property?
thanks. K. Farmer
September 9, 2008 at 3:31 am |
Dear Karl,
Thankyou for your post.
We have found that 74% use the internet to search for property, this is a combination of buyers looking for a property and potensial sellers looking for a Real Estate Agent.
This information was gathered from http://www.yahoo.com.au.
We are that a large majority are using both Print media such as Newspapers and Porperty magazines as well as the internet.
I hope this is informative