When it comes to selling your home, you want to make sure that information is not only correct, but also prsented properly, because most buyers today want good information fast!
In Real Estate, the old saying of "A picture says a thousand words" definately applies as a statistic from 2006, stated that over 77% of home buyers began their search online*.
Here is a excerpt from a February 11, 2007 New York Times Article: "Making every pixel Count"
In real estate, a picture can be worth more than a thousand words. Much, much more. When selling properties online, agents and Web designers say that the pictures buyers see of houses and apartments for sale are often the first — and sometimes the only — chance for a seller to make a good impression. Less-than-flattering pictures can turn buyers off and lead to lonely open houses.
“Good photos will grab people’s attention and help you sell a home,” said Jacky Teplitzky, an executive vice president of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate in New York. “Bad pictures will absolutely give you trouble, because you won’t have any calls on it, and nobody will come to see it.”
Eighty percent of people across the country who bought a new home last year used the Internet while house hunting, and they rated photographs as the most useful tool in their search, according to a survey of buyers and sellers by the National Association of Realtors. The survey also found that 24 percent of home buyers got their first glimpses of their new homes on the Web, up from a mere 2 percent in 1997.
http://www.residential-photography.net/professional-images.html
When Selling your home, you want to make sure your Realtor is delivering what the buyers want to see... more pictures!
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*http://www.realtor.org/press_room/news_releases/2006/01/hmbuyersellersurvey06
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