Archive for April, 2008

Selling Property Made Easy

The Privatepoint private selling real estate marketing system or commonly known as For Sale By Owner (FSBO) private selling  has been designed so you (as a property owner) do as little work as possible to market your property listing to the world. With our system you only need to enter your property details once and our system exports your property listing to a number of 3rd party websites.

Any updates you make to your property listing will be saved in our system and automatically updated on all 3rd party websites that your listing is exported to. Once your property is sold or leased you change this setting in your Privatepoint account and the status of your property on all 3rd party websites will change accordingly.

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Insight into real estate agent’s commissions

Commissions which real estate agents charge have been on the rise even though the role of the traditional real estate agent has changed dramatically in the last 10 years as less work is needed to sell real estate in Australia. This change means selling and leasing real estate is now easier than ever. A result which is due to two distinct factors;

  • The first is the push to internet based marketing away from the traditional means including newspaper, magazine, brochures, letter box flyers, and cold calling.
  • The second is because of the inbalance between demand and supply for real estate which has resulted in record sales and increased rental returns over the past few years.

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Myth about Property Appraisal Websites

Market appraisal, property appraisal, property value, market value or property worth websites market themselves at providing property owners with NO obligation FREE market appraisals on an owner’s property. A FREE market appraisal is what owners initially receive, but looking further into the chain of operation you see that it isn’t FREE from cost or obligation for the property owner.

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The Perfect Property Listing

When searching for property on the internet there is nothing worse than coming across a property listing which is missing essential property information or where information has been entered incorrectly. Not being able to make an informed decision about a property because of missing or incorrect information frustrates many property seekers every day and often results in them moving to the next listing.

Many private sellers (along with a plethora of over paid real estate agents) do not correctly list their property(s) on third party real estate portals. Below are 7 points which you should make sure you address when uploading your listing to Privatepoint;

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