Real estate is making a huge jump into the technical world. According to the MSN Real Estate site, the technology explosion of the past three years has totally changed how people buy and sell their Colorado homes.
Many real estate sites like Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com now offer applications for smartphones and tablets to make a buyer’s life almost care-free. Drive to a neighborhood you might like, run a search on your phone to get a map with homes for sale in that area, and then use your GPS function to start checking them out.
If you spot a house you like in Pike’s Peak, the Zillow app tells how long that house has been on the market and how often the price has been reduced. You might also learn that another house nearby recently sold for $50,000 less, so your house of interest might be overpriced. This instant, accurate data means you can then walk away and check out the next property on your list with no time wasted.
On the Realtor.com app, you can draw a line with your finger around a particular section of a map and see any homes that are for sale in that area. You’ll “search” only the Colorado Springs neighborhoods that fit your criteria and skip places with, say, more retirees than young families.
Sellers can benefit from these new electronic tools by ditching newspaper ads in favor of the newer web-based or mobile-based technologies. Tech-savvy sellers know that the Gen X and Y buyers will use their phone or iPad when house hunting, not the classifieds.
Realtors® are also catching onto this trend and are letting technology help their bottom line. Because many buyers search by school district, one agency now uses a Twitter feed to alert buyers of home listings in each school district. There are also apps to let homebuyers rate and review their Realtor®.
The arrival of mobile apps, social media, and GPS are having a large but very positive impact on real estate, and the change is sure to continue with the development of new technologies.
Whether you’re a self-proclaimed geek or technologically challenged, I will walk with you through every step of the buying or selling process. When you’re ready to buy or sell a home in the Pike’s Peak Area, call The Roshek Group! We are ready to help you with all of your real estate needs.
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