If you own property in Terrell, TX or the surrounding counties, let us show you why Hottinger Real Estate, Inc. is the best real estate agency to list with. Hottinger Real Estate, Inc. has been serving Terrell, TX and the surrounding counties SINCE 1975. With over 30 years of real estate expertise, let us show you how our proven marketing and consumer driven service can work for you.
www.realtor.com (Where the World Shops for Real Estate Online.™)
We are also members of the MetroTex Association of Realtors MLS (North Texas Regional MLS) This MLS association allows Realtors all over North Texas to view your property and bring clients to see them. These MLS listings are also shown on the largest home database in the country, REALTOR.com®.
How would you like your home exposed to the largest online audience of home buyers in the world?1Hottinger Real Estate, Inc. is a member of the REALTOR.com® Marketing System, adding yet another way to get your property the maximum attention and exposure it deserves when it comes time to sell.
All of our clients can now benefit from an enhanced presence on the Internet’s #1 real estate site1, REALTOR.com®. And, using the comprehensive REALTOR.com® Marketing System enables me to customize an online marketing strategy to your needs and make sure your property has unprecedented exposure. On REALTOR.com® alone, your property will stand out to more than 6.1 million consumers who, on average, spent 86% of the time they spend searching for a home online on REALTOR.com®.1
In addition, when your home is listed on REALTOR.com®, it also appears on the local real estate sections of AOL, MSN and CompuServe, among others. When home buyers and sellers go online to search in your local area on some of the most popular Web sites, they will find your listings, courtesy of REALTOR.com®.
It’s part of our commitment to market your home in the right way to the broadest possible audience of home buyers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Buyers and sellers spend 3 times longer on REALTOR.com® than any other real estate site2
- REALTOR.com® receives nearly 6 million unique visitors each month, making it the most visited real estate site3
Why is REALTOR.com® #1 with buyers and sellers3?
More homes for sale than any other site
The freshest data online with up to 15 minute updates from major MLS's across the country
More REALTORS® trust their listings with REALTOR.com® than any other site
More robust information about homes, neighborhoods and REALTORS than any other site
1 Media Metrix May 2004. Time spent searching on comparable real estate aggregation sites.
2 Media Metrix - Number of total minutes spent on REALTOR.com® during June of 2007.
3 Media Metrix – Number of unique users on REALTOR.com® each month of 2007
Here are a few facts*:
94% of the buyers use the internet to search for properties.
25% of the buyers use the internet to look for general information about an area.
64% of the buyers found real estate agent contact information on a Web site useful.
*Texas Realtor Magazine - March 2007 - 2006 Profile of Texas Homebuyers and Sellers
Hottinger Real Estate, Inc. and Web Affiliates
ONLINE DISTRIBUTION
One of the valuable skills our Associates provide as a REALTOR® is the ability to market to a large audience of qualified buyers. Through our use of the REALTOR.com® marketing system, we have the advantage of being one of the few REALTORS® who leverages the distribution power of the Internet’s most popular real estate Web sites. When we host your home on REALTOR.com®, your home is also included within the real estate sections of AOL, MSN, Netscape, Moving.com and over fifty additional real estate sites. Home buyers who go online to search for real estate in your local area on these popular Web sites, will find your home, through my use of the #1 real estate site1, REALTOR.com®. This tremendous exposure to the largest audience of buyers helps give your home the visibility it deserves.
Please note: Commercial properties may not appear on Realtor.com or the websites listed above.
The Importance of Online Marketing
Home buyers use the Internet to search for a home more than any other media.
Home buyers say the two most important features are photos and detailed descriptions.
Buyers are nearly 5 times more likely to find the home they purchase online rather than in the newspaper. *
Source: 2005 National Association of REALTORS®Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers
Why We Market Our Properties Online
More consumers are searching online
Buyers spend more time on REALTOR.com® than any other real estate site on earth.
*Media Metrix – based on reporting of the time online users spent during 2005 on REALTOR.com® and other comparable real estate listing aggregation sites and excluding sites of franchisors/brokerages
Exposure
Not just the largest audience--the right audience.
REALTOR.com® Average Monthly Totals*
Unique Users:
More than 5 million
Time Spent per User:
More than 40 minutes
*conScore Media Matrix, April 2003
7 out of 10 home shoppers are looking for their next home on the Internet. -NAR Survey of Buyers and Sellers, 2002
Research now shows that you are 500% more likely to sell a home through the Internet than through the newspaper.1 1 2006 National Association of REALTORS® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers
How Hottinger Real Estate Inc. will market your home on REALTOR.com®
Comprehensive content including customized home description, multiple photos, and interactive consumer contact opportunities allow us to present your home in the best possible light.
Listing Enhancements
By listing with Hottinger Real Estate, Inc, the door will be open to millions of online buyers actively looking to purchase.
Buyers can contact us 24/7 via email, phone or fax
We’ll create a custom property description
We’ll add what consumers want to see, additional photos
YOUR HOME WILL STAND OUT!
#1 in Commercial Real Estate Online
$500 billion of properties for sale • 4.3 billion sq. ft. of properties for lease • 2.75 million members
When you list the following property types with Hottinger Real Estate, Inc., your property is advertised on LoopNet - #1 in Commercial Real Estate Online.
Property Types
Property Advertising with LoopNet
LARGEST COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE AUDIENCE
LoopNet, Inc. is the leading commercial real estate web site and the largest listing service online. With over 910,000 visitors monthly, LoopNet attracts the largest commercial real estate audience online including visitors from Google™, Yahoo!® and MSN®.
LoopNet is a leading commercial real estate information services provider offering a suite of products and services tailored to the national and local needs of the commercial investments industry. LoopNet operates the largest and most heavily trafficked commercial real estate listing service online with more than 2.75 million registered members and 948,000 unique visitors monthly. The LoopNet online marketplace contains more than $500 billion of properties available for sale and 4.3 billion square feet of properties available for lease. LoopNet covers all commercial real estate property categories including commercial office space for lease and for sale, industrial, multifamily (apartments), retail space and land for sale. LoopNet attracts the largest community of industry professionals including commercial real estate brokers, agents, investors, property managers, landlords, and appraisers to its rich resource of commercial real estate news and listings. LoopNet's market-leading LoopLink product powers the web sites of more than 1,000 commercial real estate organizations and seamlessly integrates their web sites with commercial properties from LoopNet's listing service at www.LoopNet.com.
EXPOSURE AND EXCLUSIVITY
Advertising on LoopNet.com can triple the number of times your property is viewed. In addition, our advertising options are exclusive - ensuring maximum exposure.
$27 billion for sale • 2.2 million visitors/mo • advertised thru 250+ websites
In addition to Realtor.com® and Loop-net, the following types of properties listed with Hottinger Real Estate, Inc. will be advertised at LandsofAmerica.com:
Residential
Acreage
Acreage w/ House
Lake Property
Lake Property w/ House
River Property
River Property w/ House
Commercial
LandsofAmerica.com is the largest rural land listing service in the Nation advertising farms, ranches, timberland, mountain and waterfront properties.
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Now when you list your rural land listings with Hottinger Real Estate, Inc., your listing will also be automatically displayed on Chron.com’s Farm & Ranch section and TexasMontly.com’s Recreational Real Estate section. Now you can advertise on the three best sources for rural real estate buyers in Texas through the LandsofAmerica.com Network: LandsofTexas.com, Houston Chronicle and Texas Monthly.
The Houston Chronicle’s website, www.Chron.com is the leading local Web site for reaching Houston’s online population. With more than 6 million unique visitors per month, chron.com is the city’s most visited local Web site, complete with up-to-the-minute breaking news, exclusive online content and a robust real estate section. Because of the current Oil and Gas boom, many recreational real estate buyers are coming out of the Houston area.
Texas Monthly has a total readership of more than 2.1 million, TEXAS MONTHLY delivers the state’s largest and most affluent print audience. www.TexasMonthly.com is the best place to reach the high end readers of Texas’s most popular magazine.
Here are the Texas partner websites in the LandsofAmerica.com Network. Your properties are advertised on all these websites. This does not include the hundreds of national partner websites that your properties are also advertised on.
Walmart.com Now Advertises LandsofAmerica.com Member Listings
The latest member website of this network is Walmart.com. Walmart.com receives over 28 million people a month and now they are advertising listings from LandsofAmerica.com on their website. The LandsofAmerica.com network now includes over 250 unique, targeted websites.
CLICK HERE to view our listings at Landsofamerica.com
Servicing the Seller System
Once you have made a decision to sell a piece of property, you will need an experienced, professional real estate agent to insure that the sale is executed quickly and profitably. To assist you with this goal, Hottinger Real Estate, Inc. pledge’s to do the following:
Meet you and get to know you, and offer loyalty to you in every aspect of selling your property.
Inspect your neighborhood, your property and any improvements you’ve made.
Review tax and special assessment information, loan information, utility costs, history of the property, etc.
Properly prepare the actual paperwork to offer your property for sale.
Guidance in preparing the property to show and sell for the highest profit.
Our marketing plan for your home will include:
Submit detailed fact sheets highlighting your properties best features, to other brokers, associates and serious prospective buyers.
Submit your property to Multiple Listing Service immediately, which will expose your property to all the sales agents within our multiple listing system.
Place a "for sale' sign in your yard to attract 'drive-by" prospects.
Create an effective advertising mix.
Prepare an attractive feature sheet to highlight the amenities of your property.
If appropriate, hold your house open.
Follow up enthusiastically after Open House to all people who have shown an interest.
Prepare financing packages of possible ways for buyers to buy your home.
COMMUNICATE REGULARLY with you during the marketing of your property:
Notify you (in advance when possible) of any request to show your house.
Provide you with a written copy of any documents you may sign.
Assist you through the entire closing process.
In SHOWING your house Hottinger Real Estate, Inc. will:
Consider all serious prospective buyers, screen and qualify them in advance and counsel them in every available financial alternative.
Follow-up on anyone who previews your house.
Present all purchase agreements made on your home. Counsel you on all offers and negotiate the best possible price for you.
Negotiate and follow through with the completion of all major contingencies.
Make certain that loans are processed promptly.
Follow-up on closing procedures and title processing.
Close and deliver your net proceeds.
Assist you in finding a new home.
Hottinger Real Estate, Inc.'s
Pledge of Quality
"The sale of your home will be our prime responsibility, supported by our entire organization. We will work for you full-time, as your professional sales associate, to sell your house for the highest possible price, in the least amount of time, using our expertise to make a smooth and pleasant transaction."
-Byron Cashion
Broker
Drawbacks to Waiting to List Your Property With Hottinger Real Estate, Inc.