Real Estate Listings – Internet Vs Newspaper
Whether you are looking to buy a home for living in or whether are
looking to just invest in real estate, you should get hold of real
estate listings as the first thing. Internet and newspapers are the
most widespread ways of getting real estate listings.
With internet gaining popularity, internet real estate listings have
become one of the most trouble-free ways of checking out the real
estate listings. Though the traditional method of looking for real
estate listings (through newspapers) is still one of the most used
methods, it is a very time consuming one. You have to read through
various listings and sort out the ones that seem more fitting to you
(and possibly write down the phone numbers and contact details on a
piece of paper) and then call up the owners/brokers to fix an
appointment for viewing the property (which may turn out to be
totally disgusting in the end). Moreover, the newspaper listings
usually happen on a weekly basis. So if a deal has materialised in
the meanwhile, there is no way you can check it without actually
calling up the owner/broker. On the contrary, the internet real
estate listings (on a good real estate listings website) are updated
everyday or maybe twice a week. Moreover, new real estate listings
go up on the internet everyday (i.e. they don’t wait for the
newspaper to get published). So, if you have been using only the
newspaper as your source of real estate listing information, you
might end up getting out of date information. You might lose out on
a deal that was out on internet, say 2 days before. As such, making
the first offer can make a big difference when it comes to real
estate. Further, you don’t need to go through all the real estate
listings in order to determine the listings that look suitable to
you. You can indicate various search criteria/ filters in order to
get only those real estate listings that you really want to look
into. This is a big advantage when compared with newspapers where
listings are generally classified just on the basis of location of
the property. Thus you can save a lot of time here by browsing only
through the real estate listings that are of interest to you.
Moreover, there is no need to note phone numbers etc; you can just
take printouts of the listings you want. Some websites also provide
tools/ facilities to track those real estate listings. You could
even contact the sellers by sending a message through the website
(some websites provide such email type of facility). Another
important advantage from real estate listings on internet is that
some of them also contain images of the property. So you can have a
look at the images and see if you like the property at all.
So, real estate listings on the internet do seem to offer a lot of
expediency. However, internet or newspaper is really a matter of
personal choice too.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bob Schwartz, is a Certified Residential
Specialist, CA licensed real estate broker with
www.Brokerforyou.com. Bob
has over 27 years of residential real estate experience, authored a
number of published articles and served as an expert witness for
San Diego lawyers. You can contact
Bob via e-mail at bob@brokerforyou.com or visit his highly popular
San Diego real estate website at:
http://www.brokerforyou.com
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