Real Estate in Northeast Florida and Around the World

In a recent survey, almost 90% of all people interested in buying or selling real estate begin with a search on the internet.  The World Wide Web of Information.  The question is, how accurate is the information that you are receiving?

Many of my customers will tell me about a house that they have seen in a neighborhood in which they have an interest, on one of the popular websites that take feeds from local real estate association Multiple Listing Service or Brokerage websites.  When I research that listing, it typically is no longer for sale, or the price at which they saw the listing is no longer valid.  Why is this?

Many of the popular websites do not receive pushes of new data anytime there is a change from within the originating website.  And the originating web site has no control as to how often those search engines update their data.  This is true also for sites that will give you a "valuation" of a property.  The algorthyms that are built into the calculations are using data that may or may not be valid.  In addition, many of those valuation models use properties within a certain proximity of the subject being valued.  That's great if each of those neighborhoods are equal in appeal, amenities and condition of the subject property.  But rarely is this the case, and that "value" that the website gave you, may or may not truly reflect the value of the property in which you are interested.

Your best source of information is to get it as close to the source of the most recent information as you possible can.  I recommend Listingbook to my customers.  Listingbook is a great search engine tool built for customers, and the information that is being displayed is refreshed within minutes of updates by the agent in their Multiple Listing Service (MLS) database.  Recent changes to Realtor.com also feature refreshes within minutes, however, the amount of data that is displayed on Realtor.com is not as much as what is displayed in Listingbook.

Listingbook is only available through agents that participate.  If you are interested in opening a Listingbook account, just click on the Listingbook Search at the top of the page.  It will give you more information, and from there you can click to create your own free account.  And guess what - no spamming, no daily emails other than if you requested to be notified when a property you have indicated as a favorite has a price change, or if a new property within the parameters you set has come available.  And if you are seller of a property, you can easily see your competition and know exactly what is going on in your neighborhood.  My customers love this product, and if I were a betting person, I'd bet you will too.

So if this is of interest to you - whether you are looking to purchase, sell or even rent property, open your free Listingbook account today and get started.  And - you can always give me a call.  I'd love to chat with you about the market and see if I can't just help you find your way in that big WWW.