listings: Successful Open Houses--- on TUESDAY?
- 03/29/09 05:48 AM
In this market, we're all trying to come up with new marketing ploys to give fresh traffic to slow-moving listings, which, nowadays, is nearly ALL of the them! Some years ago, when we were still associates with a large local company, my husband and I won an award for "Thinking Outside the Box for our innovative marketing ploys, so this is something of a forte for us, and my husband, Brian, has definitely had on his thinking cap to come up with new strategies for marketing listings. Accordingly, a few weeks ago, he decided to try out one new idea for a couple of our listings that are … (2 comments)
listings: List vs. Sales Prices: Loads of Unrealistic Sellers, at least around Albuquerque!
- 06/11/07 04:19 PM
I've been doing a lot of showing in the past couple of weeks, and even some offer-writing. I'm getting a bit frustrated though, at the really strange market situation that's developed, at least in the rural areas surrounding Albuquerque. With very few exceptions, all the active listings were priced well above the very highest sold comps, sometimes as much as 20% above the highest comparable property that has actually closed. (Let me here congratulate that minority of serious sellers whose homes are well-priced: it was such a pleasure showing your properties!) Last year, and the year before that, this "overpricing" strategy worked … (13 comments)
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In this market, we're all trying to come up with new marketing ploys to give fresh traffic to slow-moving listings, which, nowadays, is nearly ALL of the them! Some years ago, when we were still associates with a large local company, my husband and I won an award for "Thinking Outside the Box for our innovative marketing ploys, so this is something of a forte for us, and my husband, Brian, has definitely had on his thinking cap to come up with new strategies for marketing listings.
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