http://www.theharperteam.com/blog/sellers/do-newspapers-sell-houses/ Fri, 21 May 2010 20:05:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.theharperteam.com/blog/sellers/do-newspapers-sell-houses/comment-page-1/#comment-27150 We sold the house Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:52:44 +0000 http://www.theharperteam.com/blog/sellers/do-newspapers-sell-houses/#comment-27150 [...] Coincidence? I don’t think so. Two offers came in that night, both from locals who were familiar with the neighborhood. Eight months on the market, and the two offers came in the same day we got a ton of attention in the local paper. John Harper, a Realtor out here in California, wondered whether newspapers sell houses and remarked that the trend is for Realtors to shift much of their marketing budget to online sources away from offline sources. One example doesn’t make a trend, but I think the results in my case speak for themselves: Craigslist, Zillow, Trulia, realtor.com – none of them produced our buyer. Interesting. [...] [...] Coincidence? I don’t think so. Two offers came in that night, both from locals who were familiar with the neighborhood. Eight months on the market, and the two offers came in the same day we got a ton of attention in the local paper. John Harper, a Realtor out here in California, wondered whether newspapers sell houses and remarked that the trend is for Realtors to shift much of their marketing budget to online sources away from offline sources. One example doesn’t make a trend, but I think the results in my case speak for themselves: Craigslist, Zillow, Trulia, realtor.com – none of them produced our buyer. Interesting. [...]

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