How did Real Estate evolve over time to get where it is today? I remember when I was buying a home back in the late 80s, my real estate agent brought me into the room, (of her office), and plunked a very large book on the table. This book contained pages and pages of home listings; each was in a certain place.
Then you would read about each individual listing, by the way without pictures, and choose which homes you where going to view. This process may have taken several hours just to determine your list of homes on the market. Then off you went to look at your choices.
Today buyers and sellers have the ability to virtually walk though every house on the market if they wish. Remember, back during these times no one had cell phones either, so information updates such as if the home had a contract or was pending may not have been known for a couple of days depending upon the Realtors fast response returning calls off the answering device.
Information is golden, today just like twitter and face book, everything is instant. Generally speaking, a real estate agent will know right away if a home is still on the market. So now instead of going into a room to look through the Big Book, buyers can literally pre purchase a home before they even have boots on the ground to view it in person.
I will never know what it was like before the Inter web, but, I am so happy to be able to offer the services that we have available for all Realty marketing, for both Home Buyers and Sellers.
No comments:
Post a Comment