Real Estate Open House | Showing Homes Through Open Houses | Attracting Buyers For A Real Estate Purchase

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Real Estate Open Houses Sell Homes | Attracting Buyers Through Showings

Helping to sell a home through the use of an open house. Most say open houses are ineffective. This resource will provide information on the strategy behind holding an open house.

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Real Estate Open House
More Views on the Effectiveness of Real Estate Open Houses to Sell Homes
Real Estate Open House Google Search

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Open House Best Sellers
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Does Open House Selling Really Work?

If you are a real estate agent then an open house is a prospecting tool rather then a way to sell the home they are showing. There are many reputable real estate agents that won't host their own property's open house. They opt for a newer agent to take on the job.

It is common for a listing agent to pass the job on to someone else even though they could be there if they wanted to be and keep all of the commission. They are offering half of their commission if the hosting agent sells the home. Real estate agents don't feel that an open house is how a home is commonly sold to someone so this act isn't considered high risk...[more Real Estate Open House]

Related resources for open house selling: Selling Preparation | Perfect Listing Price | Showing Beyond The Basics | Curb Appeal

More Views on the Effectiveness of Real Estate Open Houses to Sell Homes

Sell your own home with an open house.: Kick off your home selling campaign with an open house. Invite all the neighbors for blocks around your house. Show them your home's best points and tell them your price. Why? Because neighbors are the best promoters of the neighborhood and they all have friends and family who buy homes...[more]
Virtual Tours Are Changing The Traditional Open House: Data collected in 2003 by the National Association of Realtors shows that 72 percent of 3,000 recent buyers responding to a NAR survey drove by or viewed a house for sale as a result of an Internet search. Forty-six percent walked through a house visited online, the data shows. Seventy-eight percent found photos of the houses they saw listed on the Internet "very useful," while 46 percent said the same thing about virtual tours...[more]
Is an open house a waste of time?: Agents admit that few sales traditionally come from open houses. And now the Internet is making them even less valuable. Los Angeles real estate agent Liz Johnson loves open houses, but not because they move her properties. The real reason Johnson holds them is because they bring her more business. Prospective home buyers walk through and ask what other listings she has. "They've always been better for agents than sellers," she says...[more]
Market and promote your open house effectively.: Place a classified ad in the appropriate section for open houses. Put up open house signs at the home and directional signs along the way. If you subscribe to "Enhanced Listings" features at Realtor.com®, there's a place for open house information. For those with a web site and/or web log (blog), place the information there a few days before...[more]
Those strangers in your open house.: The very concept of an open house outwardly looks like an odd one. Strangers are openly invited into your home, allowed and even encouraged to investigate each and every nook and cranny all while openly discussing the tangible worth of perhaps your most important possession. They can be difficult to prepare for and through all of the people that funnel in and out of your home, only a handful may end up actually interested in the home...[more]

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Open House Best Sellers

Everything Homeselling Book: From the Open House to Closing the Deal, All You Need to Get the Most Money for Your Home! (Everything: Business and Personal Finance)

by: Shahri Masters

Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 12/10/2009)

The Handbook of Painted Decoration: The Tools, Materials, and Step-by-Step Techniques of Trompe L'Oeil Painting (Open Market Edition)

by: Yannick Guegan, Roger Le Puil

Amazon Price: $49.87 (as of 12/10/2009)

Open Your Eyes: 1,000 Simple Ways To Bring Beauty Into Your Home And Life Each Day (Harperresource Book)

by: Alexandra Stoddard

Amazon Price: (as of 12/10/2009)

The Everything Homebuying Book: From Open House to Closing the Deal, Everything You Need to Know Before You Make the Most Important Purchase of Your Life (Everything Series)

by: Ruth Rejnis

Amazon Price: (as of 12/10/2009)

Open House: A Visual Guide to Buying or Selling Your Home

by: Bryan Trandem

Amazon Price: (as of 12/10/2009)

Best Sellers on Staging Your Open House

Home Staging: The Winning Way to Sell Your House for More Money

Resources to Help Sell Your Open House

Painting Benefits: The benefits of painting a home to show better.
Words That Simply Sell: The words and phrases chosen to describe the property go a long way in selling the home.
Proactive Selling: Knowing your home's weaknesses and strengths, as well as following up with potential buyers is a proactive approach to real estate selling.
Staging To The Senses: Making sure your how smells nice, looks nice, and feels nice (clean).
Seasonal Home Affects: Consider how the season affects the sale of your home. Spring is easier to sell than winter, for example

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Jul 6, 2009 @ 9:01 pm

Great info on open houses... nice lens... 2 thumbs up!

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Elli-Davis Elli-Davis Nov 17, 2008 @ 7:05 am

yes, open house is the KEY!

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jfield jfield Oct 21, 2008 @ 1:55 pm

Very nice lens with clear information. Well done!

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Thanks for joining the Interior Design, Soft furnishings and Decor group. This is a nice lens that fits well with the group.