Paper advertising when selling your home, is it dead?

By: Ian Bates
Submitted: 2008-08-28 16:08:56
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Paper advertising when selling your home, is it dead? When brining a property to market Estate Agents in Sovereign Harbour will use a lot of different tools. So will agents around the world. One of the more traditional forms of advertising has been the property paper for estate agents. I will explore in this article if these days are over.

It is one of the mediums that I as an agent have used to both sell property and also one which I have used to buy property from. I never used to trust that all agents would send me the homes on their list. I also did not want to spend a valuable day off traipsing around to see all the agents. As a family man with three demanding and great children. They too did not fancy another trip into town.

This can be said of many purchasers out there. With one new invention to enter the market. The internet and maybe more importantly the large property portals who advertise the properties from all the major agents.

With you and I now being able to sit at home and scan the internet looking for property, we know longer need to rely on Estate Agents in Sovereign harbour or anywhere to post property to us. We can set this up ourselves.

You will have noticed the great effect that this has had on the property market. Agents are changing their spend and now looking to more inventive ways to use their marketing spend. The nock on effect of this is the reduction to the number of agents advertising in the local property papers.

As the papers shrink then it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy with again less agents choosing to advertise until we reach a point that the paper becomes so small. The effect of this is two fold. Less people pick it up or trust it to be the place to go to search for property or the paper themselves start to reduce the circulation in order to keep up their profits. You start to reduce circulation and yet again the paper begins to loose value.

It becomes a vicious cycle with one sad departure from our market. The property newspaper. I hope it will always have a place as it can be an area which on a Sunday morning you can dream of a new home will sipping your coffee. As far as an advertising tool is concerned, well our buyers have changed their buying habits and as Estate Agents adapt to this the property news papers will slowly diminish.

Ian Bates runs a network of Estate Agents covering Estate Agents in Sovereign Harbour

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