Craigslist Real Estate Tips And Tricks

One could argue any business will prosper by promoting itself on Craigslist based on the sheer number of people who visit the website on a daily basis. While any exposure is good exposure for business, there are certain categories on Craigslist where business can especially benefit from specialty marketing. The following is a brief breakout on specific industries and how they can use Craigslist to their advantage.

Real Estate Guide

Few topics are more ubiquitous than real estate, which is not

surprisingly one of the most popular categories on Craigslist.

Where agents and individual sellers alike pay top dollar for

newspaper listings, Craigslist sellers can post ads with content

and photographs for free, and can continue placing the same ad

in a new city every two days.

In what has shown to be a highly competitive and forceful real

estate market over the past half decade, statistics show buyers

and sellers are becoming more creative in their approach. For

example, an article in the Wall Street Journal reported, "Listings

of real estate for sale on Craigslist, a popular Web site featuring

free classified ads, rose to 335,126 in March, more than triple

the level of a year earlier," (James R. Hagerty April 10, 2006).

A person who would have typically paid upwards of 5.1% in

commission to his or her broker now has the luxury and freedom

to navigate the online real estate waters with extra cash in hand.

Knowing this, there are an abundance of advantages to selling

your home on Craigslist.

Craigslist serves local communities and allows people to sell their

homes to an already concentrated market. The website offers

approximately 300,000 listings, one stop shopping, and little

interference when it comes to obtaining information about the

potential purchase.

TIPS AND TRICKS TO BOOST HOME SALES:

· Bulleted details describing the home

· Include contact information

· Provide photographs of interior and exterior

· Provide links to ancillary webpages

· Let prospective buyers know of upcoming open houses

And take advantage of Craigslist casual and information generating reputation to gain the trust of your buying pool.

Remember: Listings may appear on HousingMaps.com