The Internet is changing how we present ourselves in the real estate business. We now need to connect with clients online, create relationships and then fill their housing needs. What we are now selling is community. Where are the local hotspots, How is the Corner Cuisine?
I have concentrated my efforts on the better detached homes in superior neighbourhoods that comprise the West Toronto GTA thru Mississauga and into Oakville. My marketing efforts online have attracted prospective Buyers, not only from the local markets but also from outside Canada entirely. Why exclude yourself from the largest pool of buyers in Ontario?
When I receive enquiries about communities in Lorne Park, Mineola or Oakville, I can respond with property brochures in printed form or as a PDF file by email. This permits our new neighbours to have a look at all the floor plans and house placement prior to a site visit as well as photo and video arrays of the entire community with online sharing from the privacy of their own home. Wouldn't you like a drive through experience?
Using successful SEO to promoting your home; Thoughtful Virtual property Tours using your input that highlite the Lifestyle benefits, Extensive Photo Arrays uploaded to the Real Estate Board System that feed the MLS; plus syndication to addition high traffic sites bring fresh and eager eyes to your listing. We have now added Glidetrack Technology to further display the design embellishments and Ceramic Upgrades and details.
Working with an Accredited Senior Agent who is tech savvy addresses the new and growing population of computer users that have abandoned traditional Yellow Page and Flyer advertising models. While, I hope you do not need to move, if there is a need for independent candid advice from an agent with 23 years of experience, I would be pleased to answer your questions. I can meet with you daily. If you need a reference, just Google, David Pylyp.
10 Marketing Questions To Ask The Real Estate Agent
Who Is Offering To List Your Property For Sale
With 90% of property buyers searching online for real estate, you'll likely be best served by an agent who understands modern Real Estate web marketing techniques.
Quick Note: Most real estate agents you interview will not be able to answer all of these questions, but whoever comes closest is probably an excellent choice...
Questions For Your Prospective Real Estate Agent
·Can you create a single property website for my property? Will it be syndicated? Can you track the metrics, activity and viewers?
·Will this site include a video of the property? Will the video be on Youtube? How about some other video sharing sites?
·How often will you post to Craig’s List? Will your Craig’s list ads divert that juicy Craig’s traffic to more effective lead capture points?
·How many Facebook ad impressions do you plan to purchase for the property? How will they be targeted?
·Which keywords will you target as part of the Google adwords and/or Bing campaigns you run for the property? (What’s your budget for these campaigns?)
·How big is your website’s RSS based newsletter readership?
·Will you post my property to your blogand update your readership at least twice/month with price changes, etc?
·Will you create a Twitter Account for the property? Will it follow other twitterers in the area and invite them to take a look at my listing?
·What kind of camera will you use to take the pics of my property?How many photos of my listing do you intend to post around the web? Sample Photo Stream
·Can I see the MLS description you plan to write for the property before we execute a Listing Agreement? Can we edit and modify data together?
·Are you willing to notify the 10 agents who have the most recent sales on properties closest to my property about the listing?
·Which social networks will your blog posts about my listing syndicate to? How many total people do you have on your friends/fans/followers lists?
·Will I be able to access web analytics for the various sites where my listing appears? Can you set me up to be able to view these visitors in real time?
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Possibly the best real estate agent in Toronto West, Etobicoke and Mississauga to Oakville. How can I say that to you? I have believed for 22 years that with honesty and hardwork, word of mouth would carry the message out to new clients.
We now have 32,000 agents registered in the City of Toronto, We are all competing for your business. The video above is playing Bad Romance from Lady Gaga. It really does speak to me in the sense that many agents promise the moon yet fail to deliver. So How do we Quantify the Best Agent agent for real estate in Toronto?
Is it their years of practice? I have been selling for 22 years. When does one become experienced? I have sold an average of 15 - 20 units per year. Are you skilled at Landlord Tenant Tribunal issues? Yes, been to LTT Court many times to present for Landlords. Am no longer licenced to represent you except PRO BONO. (to help you)
Is it the ability create enthusiasm and viewership for your webpages online?ShopTOism and David Pylyp dot com now receive en excess of 250 thousand page views per month. The youtube video channel is in excess of 32,000 viewed videos. Can we tangibly demonstrate value in bringing your home to a BUYER's attention? I know I can.
Can I assist you to fund your transaction and explain the combinations in detailing with amortization tables and net comparisons of different funding choices. I will provide you a future Value proforma for a multiple unit apartment building over a ten year period where you and I will sit and decide the variables and assumptions we are creating. I am able to explain earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) and discuss Capitalization Rate logic.
I am trying NOT to waste paper in both flyers, newspaper advertising and the likes of yellow page promotions. People receive these publications and merely toss them into the blue recycle bin. If I have a more targeted way of getting Buyers to see you, there must be a better way.
With communicating, I love the new iPHONE and iPAD technologies and am eager to join. I am struggling because I receive in excess of 100 emails per day that are a) correspondence b) MLS.ca property inquiries c) website questions d) spam and junk like all of us receive. We are text capable although thumb challenged, (My wife says I have disposable thumbs) Eye sight and vanity make texting a keyboard related skill. Not able or lawful while driving.
I am how ever able to answer your telephone inquiries at my follow me number 905 361 3387 or direct to my cell phone at 647 218 2414 generally prior to the third ring. There is no smurf assistant one, two or three, before you talk to me.
With real estate commissions as prevalent an issue as they are, all fees are competitive; you are paying for my skill and experience and techniques, acquired over decades, to handle and answer your queries without a gauntlet of "helpers" screening your call. When there is a sign call on your property it will be handled quickly by myself as soon as possible, show as soon as practical. (not by a newly licenced assistant who is part of a team)
But I will ask if the Prospect / Client is currently under contract with another brokerage. It does not help my situation or yours to inadvertently divulge information about your property and your life events to the betterment of the Buyer Prospect. To that end I have developed a Summary sheet of why you would want to have buyer Agency when looking for your next home. I will not list your house at 20%v over the current market trend to have you dusting cleaning and making the beds on a daily basis only to revisit the pricing at 90 days and say, "I am so sorry, I originally thought that...." I will not change sides in the negotiation because I have made friends with the buyers 7 hours ago. I will NOT ask you to hold your own open houses. I will not ask you to negotiate your property without knowing the variable and myriad choices available to you. I will ask a) If you would like to accept the other agent's offer b) dismiss them out of hand c) Counter offer their proposal.
Why am I asking if you are under Buyers Representation Agreement? (BRA) or Buyers Agency?
That is my job; So here we are and the concept is simple; If I can add value to your real estate transaction, in the GTA that is encapsulated by Etobicoke, Humber Bay, Toronto West, Mississauga's Lakeview, Port Credit and Lorne Park to Oakville'sClearview and slightly beyond; If you would like your listing promoted to the 32,000 licenced realtors that are currently scouring the GTA for business, If you would like your home featured on youtube, Housing Storm, Active Rain and Google's Blogger webpages as well as my websites as the Featured Home, I invite your inquiries and comments.
How do you define best agent in Toronto for you?
David is all Toronto, all the time. A Toronto Realtor® with Luxury properties, David authors Living in Toronto and ShopTOism, HumberBayShore.com and Davidpylyp.com. [He] is always on communication's leading edge. He goes out of his way to engage and be engaged, often using Humour to keep the mood light and give everything he does a Toronto flavor. You can find him goofing off or instigating trouble at ShopTOismTwitter, Flickr, Facebook, Youtube, ActiveRain, Blogger or LinkedIn
What is the value that someone brings to a real estate transaction?
The one great truth about selling houses in the digital age You must put the Internet to work for you. An estimated 880 million people search Google for a real estate related thing each month. They search Google—not Twitter, not Facebook or whatever the newest and hippest social site is these days.
The home-buying audience may be hip, but most are concerned. They want access, value and service from their agent. No matter how “hip” they are, they want a professional who knows more than they do about real estate; to guide them and to help them. They play on Twitter, they social network on Facebook, they buy homes from the Internet. http://rismedia.com/2009-11-11/social-media-can-be-a-sinkhole-for-real-estate/
This year in 2010, we have some strong challenges for our attention. We have the new Hydro rate increases that I hear are around 10 - 12%, The Harmonized Sales Tax is being implemented in July, Municipal Elections are already active; Transit expansion, Property Taxes and Toll Roads are but a few more. Lets add the seasonality of living in the Toronto GTA with traffic congestion and road closures, my best friend construction. Politics about bicycle lanes and elections may have us distracted but the HST will provide an instant re focus and I hope wrath. City Hall silliness extends to new Condo Buildings requiring a Metropass.
Looking online at every imaginable factoid and detail without sorting these into relevance and context is merely adds clutter. This stems from a conversation that occurred recently with a mortgage Broker from Vaughan.
Beatrice Pitocco remarked... " consumers read a few articles online and decide that this is the financial product or service they require". She further added with a twinkle in her eye, "Having something explained to them in person, they now leave my office with a business card and confront other lending institutions with the phrase, my broker said they will give me this, Will you beat the price?" beatrice@verybestmortgagerates.com http://beatricepitocco.com
Independent Brokers whether, Insurance, Financial Consultants, Realtors or Mortgage Brokers serve at the leisure of their clientèle to inform, educate, inspire and add value. An independent broker will provide you more time and selection of product availability, sort through all the available choices with you to select and explain the best option for your family. Independant Brokers provide an advocate for you. Changing that status quo will make it single service suppliers with no selection. Buying something then crying FOUL! that's not what I thought that meant will not work.
Sure, You can go on MLS.ca and educate yourself about what is available for sale that has not sold but you do not see the entire database of listings. You wonder what happened to listings that POP on and OFF in 48 hours that you never got to see inside. You cannot understand the NUANCE of the same street having different values per square foot based on the street address as you move north of Bloor, Annette, Dundas, St Clair and Eglinton. Then, you are moving from Listing agent to listing agent arguing about real estate values that should be 10% lower because that was what you read on line. (some people and praying and betting on a crash. To those praying for a crash, Why are you out shopping if prices will come down? )
This year I hope to work with 30 families to assist their housing needs. Are you going to call me? You can reach me by email david@davidpylyp.com or call 905 361 3387.
David Pylyp Accredited Senior Agent. Almost certainly one of the preeminent real estate agents for West Toronto Homes and Humber Bay Shore Condos, Award Winning Realtor David Pylyp has been helping families buy and sell homes in West Toronto GTA (Etobicoke to Oakville) for 22 years. Use innovative strategies and sales techniques to advertise and promote your home for sale, for maximum exposure to get maximum value. David is passionate about getting and giving great Value, Professional and Persistent in getting things done.
David’s candor and humour combined with a simple phrase of “There are no wrong answers” help ease the decisions you need to make.