Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Posted on 17. Apr, 2009 by Jason Steele.

We know how well the big sites in real estate (Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia) rank in the search engines. And we are clear about the vast amount of traffic they receive. We also know that consumers are drawn to these sites first before drilling down to the local broker and agent sites. What we inside real estate know that most consumers may not is how many local listings are actually missing from these search sites. Jay Thompson digs a little deeper into this discussion in his post this week titled Where to search for homes online.

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Three Ideas for Monitoring and Improving Listing Absorption Rate

Posted on 29. Sep, 2008 by Robert Albanese.

Posted by Bob Albanese In my last blog I wrote about “loss connected with a low listing absorption rate” and the clear upside in maintaining strong performance in this area. The question now revolves around how brokers can improve listing absorption rate, and the types of tools and measurement devices that are required to accomplish [...]

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