Tag Archives | Real Estate

50 Real Estate Sale Signs

By on May 18, 2009 in Marketing

I recently took the car for a spin and had a look around Sydney to see what real estate agents are doing as far as real estate signage in front of homes for sale (and a couple of rentals). So I took a camera and a photographer (thanks Janett) and spent a day across Eastern [...]

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REA Release Selling Guide

By on May 5, 2009 in Portals, What's New

Realestate.com.au have released a new website guide to selling. The new site is very comprehensive and well thought out with a great deal handy tips and guides. Sections include Preparing to Sell, Choosing an Agent, Advertising your Property and Presenting your Property. Yes, there is a fair amount of advertising skewed to realestate.com.au but they [...]

REA, Real Estate, Selling

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Survey – 50 most powerful property portals in the world

By on July 25, 2008 in What's New

Seattle based Internet marketing firm SEOMoz launched its new Trifecta tool this week. This tool tries to measure the importance of a website, it collates a number of factors including Google Page Rank, incoming links, news articles and traffic sources – such as Alexa. It is a pretty rough guide, but in principal it should [...]

Portals, Real Estate, survey, web 2.0

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Marketing Real Estate: How much $ is enough?

By on July 4, 2008 in Marketing, Newspapers
Marketing Real Estate: How much $ is enough?

How do you know how much to spend marketing real estate? Some interesting survey data that just became available should be of help. A video marketing company in the US surveyed 1,304 real estate agents to see how much they spent. There isn’t a lot of info here, but what there is is gold. One [...]

Marketing, Newspapers, Real Estate, Video

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Google Adds Real Estate Search to Maps

By on May 15, 2008 in What's New

Google (in the US of A) have added Google Real Estate Search to their Google Maps application. Now you can search for real estate in America on Google Maps. The data comes from their Google Base application, however it seems they are going to add data from other sources also. You can try it out [...]

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Dust off those old dotcom domains

By on April 15, 2008 in Search, Technology

Registering and using multiple domains names was strategy used by many as a great tool for building your business and creating a bigger online presence. Because of the higher costs and strict controls placed on .com.au domain names many agents chose to collect .com domains which are cheap and easy to get.Collecting multiple domains were [...]

Google, Real Estate, Search

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Climate change and Real Estate?

By on October 31, 2006 in Soapbox

Does climate change really matter to the real estate industry? With an ever increasing focus now on global warming both from a hesitant federal government and now the media, it is maybe time to have a look at global warming and its effect on not only our planet but the real estate industry. I want [...]

Climate Change, Real Estate

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