Fizbers to Use Flickr for Marketing Their Homes Online
Real estate website Fizber.com adds a new feature to their wide range of services allowing sellers share their property images with thousands of Flickr users
In real estate marketing photos are important and convey the appeal of the property much better than words. Since property photos are meant to be a sales tool, Fizber.com has launched a new service encouraging home sellers to share their property digital photos on Flickr, the web’s leading photo sharing site. Now homeowners selling their homes by owner can take advantage of that unprecedented exposure, thanks to leading real estate for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) site Fizber.com.
Yahoo’s photo-sharing site, Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. And “fizbers”, homeowners selling without the help of real estate agents, can now show off their property photos to thousands of Flickr users.
“In real estate, a picture can be worth more than a thousand words,” adds Julia Foster, PR Manager for Fizber.com. “Flickr boasts of millions of users, and chances that your property will be seen by a potential buyer, who has a Flickr account, are very high.”
Those improvements join Fizber.com’s already impressive line-up of services. Included in every seller package are a minimum of twenty five photos of the home; an instant home appraisal to better price the home; search engine exposure; and unlimited home description word-count, in addition to the property photos posted on Flickr.
“Fizber.com is proud to constantly be moving forward,” Foster said. “Our users can expect to see many more improvements and upgrades in the future.”
About Flickr.com:
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. Its primary goals are to help people make photos available to those who matter to them, and to enable new ways of organizing pictures.
For more information please visit http://flickr.com/
About Fizber.com:
Fizber.com is an innovative way to buy and sell a home — bringing together buyers and sellers in one place, and connecting all the resources they need to buy or sell a home. Listings are available for homes all over the United States.
The company offers sellers and buyers a variety of unique features, including drive score widget, climate data and neighborhood statistics for every home, integrated map, satellite and hybrid map/satellite searching capability.
For more information, please visit www.fizber.com
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I agree that ANY real estate sales site must have pictures or customers will not spend much time on the listing. This is a great advantage to sellers
My concern (and yes I am a real estate agent) is in todays market, an analysis of properties sold one year ago will not reflect each individual market’s values. Other issues are the legal aspects of transfering property, such as disclosure documents, mold, lead, asbestos, etc. Selling it yourself may save money as long as you don’t have a future legal battle. Even if you get a buyer for a property, there is now a court case against a real estate agent for the buyer paying to much for a home, and they lost value in the market. The agent provides a local comparative market analysis (CMA) to verify the value of the seller’s property.
Another issue of selling yourself is the scope of advertising Fizber.com gives. I don’t know how many OTHER websites the property gets advertized on. I hadn’t heard of this site until the above article, so wouldn’t have performed a search on the site. Realtor.com is the #1 public real estate site for listings, but it doesn’t matter where the home is advertized if people don’t see it.
Most buyers can get realtor services at no cost to them, the seller pays the fee for services, so why wouldn’t they? Realtors are going to look on the MLS service, some of us also look elsewhere on the web for private sale properties, but then we have to find them, often by luck.
Sorry for the ramble, here is my last point: According to the National Association of Realtors, an agent-listed home will sell for 16% more than a FSBO. Buyers will offer lower prices because they feel the seller is saving the money, so they can sell it for less. So to sell a home faster, get better market exposure, and sell it for a higher price, the FSBO sites may only increase a seller’s frustration.
Good info. I didnt know they used that to sell homes.
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