The small world of real estate
Volume 2, Issue 4 April 2010
Internet and real estate: friends or foes?
How many real estate websites are there in Canada? No less than 400! According to an article on canoe.ca, 85% of people use the Internet to buy or sell their house. The social networking sites have also begun to transform the picture. Indeed there have been cases of people selling their property in just a few days after having sent a message to their Facebook and Twitter contacts. What exactly is the role of the Internet in the resell business? According to Yves, who has been following the trend over the last 10 years and who quickly realized that a website can make all the difference in the world, the Internet is a definite must. That said, one must not think that “tweets” will erase real estate agents from the map. Of course, it is possible to get a quick sell — without the help of an agent but with the contribution of real estate websites — for one’s lovely-two-bedroom-condo-on-the-Plateau-at-the-market-price. But will it really be the best price the owner could have gotten? We will never know because the property was not shown on the actual market. When the situation is a tad more complex, such as an undivided apartment, a plex located out of the mainstream or a property sold without legal warranty of quality, the owner will have to contact a real estate professional if he really intends to sell his property within a reasonable time frame. Yes, the future of real estate transactions depends on the Internet and the use of social networking sites but no, real estate agents are not on the endangered species list…!
Yves’s website in numbers
According to Google Analytics data for www.yvesdoyle.com from February 5 to March 7, 2010, there were 890 visits (including 668 absolute unique visitors). There was a traffic peak on February 8 and March 1st, when the monthly newsletter was put online. Visitors came from 5 countries, as follows: Canada (872), France (8), United States (6), Australia (3) and Haiti (1). On average, each visitor looked at 4.75 pages/visit and spent 2,36 minutes on the site. Finally, 65.51% of traffic was made up of new visitors. Keep reading and we’ll give you more stats at the end of 2010.
2009 Performance Gala
Just a few words to underline Yves’s fine performance as a solo real estate agent (remember he worked only part of 2009 as a solo agent): he was ranked 64th of the top 100 solo real estate agents of La Capitale in the province of Québec!
La Capitale du Mont-Royal
CHARTERED REAL ESTATE BROKER
1152, ave du Mont-Royal est
Montréal (Québec)
H2J 1X8
Office: 514-597-2121
Fax: 514-597-0712
Cell: 514-812-7582
ydoyle@lacapitalevendu.com
www.yvesdoyle.com
© 2010 Anne Marie Joly — Copy Writing and Page Setting
Fabienne Malenfant
Relationist
Agents by Sector
http://agentsbysector.com
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