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Should You Specialize In A Home Niche?

When it comes to selling Leduc homes should you specialize in selling a certain type of home or selling in a certain neighborhood? Conventional wisdom says that specializing may result in not as many sales but experts disagree. The top real estate sellers all say that focusing on one particular niche and establishing yourself as an expert in that niche is the best way to be as successful as possible in real estate. That’s because by focusing on one niche you can learn all the insider information that sellers and buyers are looking for in that niche. Maybe you want to focus on selling luxury homes in Edmonton. Or maybe you want to sell historic homes. Find a niche that appeals to you and learns everything that you can learn about it. Not sure what kind of…

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How To Find The Right Buyer For A Fixer Upper

Selling a fixer upper homes in Edmonton can be a challenge for you. These days most people want to move in ready homes that have lots of fancy upgrades. So it can be tough to find buyers who are willing to consider a fixer-upper that has loads of potential but also needs a lot of work. Here are a few ways that you market a fixer-upper in order to find the right buyer to take on the challenges of a home that needs work:

Find Historic Home Lovers

Start a Pinterest board for historic homes or follow some Pinterest users who post often about historic homes. Look for historic home groups on Facebook. Actively look for people online that appreciate classic details in a home and might be willing to put in some work on a fixer-upper that has great original…

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MLS® Edmonton | Edmonton Real Estate May 8 2018 Statistics

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MLS® Edmonton | Edmonton Real Estate May 6 2018 Statistics

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4 Ways To Use Social Media To Generate More Leads

By this point, you know that you have to use social media to market your Edmonton MLS® listings if you want to find new leads. Social media marketing is one of the best ways to find potential buyers and sellers. But if you’re struggling with what to post or how to build engagement on your social media here are the four top ways to build a strong social media presences and use it to engage with clients and potential clients:

Use Photos

When it comes to posting things that will get people’s attention on social media you have to use photos. It doesn’t matter which of the most popular social media sites you’re using – posts that include photos will always get the highest rates of engagement. Great photos posted with engaging captions and the right…

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3 Ways To Build Better Social Media Relationships With Potential Buyers

Social media is more important than even when it comes to finding potential home buyers. These days there is so much information online that people increasingly are only paying attention to those that they have social media relationships with. So figuring out the best ways to use social media and build relationships is critically important for agents. Here are three ways that you can build on the social media relationships that you’ve already started and start building new ones that will help you connect with buyers and sellers.

Actively Engage

It might seem obvious but the key to successfully using media is to be social. That means actively engaging with the people that follow you, like your page, or friend you on Facebook. You can’t just post…

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3 Marketing Mistakes You’re Probably Making

Marketing yourself and your listings can be difficult. Even if you feel like you’re constantly working on marketing your listings if you’re not putting your effort into the right types of marketing you’re wasting all that time and effort. Based on interviews with some of the Best selling real estate agents from around the country here are the three mistakes that real estate agents make the most often when it comes to marketing:

Not Getting The Most Out Of Social Media

Social media marketing can have a huge return for agents. But how many agents do you know who say that social media marketing doesn’t work for them? You may have even said it yourself on occasion. The problem isn’t that social media marketing doesn’t work. It does work, and it works…

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Spring Cleaning Tips To Get Houses Ready To Sell

The best thing that homeowners can do to sell their Edmonton homes is to hire a professional cleaning service. But some homeowners won’t want to do that because of the expense and will clean the home themselves. Spring home buyers will expect a deeper level of cleaning than homebuyers who buy homes during other seasons.  If you are working with a homeowner that insists on cleaning the home themselves before it is shown to buyers make sure that you share these spring cleaning tips with them to get the house in tip-top shape before buyers tour the home.

Clean The Windows

Most people remember to clean the interior windows when they are spring cleaning before putting a house up for sale but they forget about the outside windows. The outside windows need…

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On The Rise Edmonton Real Estate Trends For 2018

 2018 is going to be a banner year for real estate. Home prices should hold steady and the demand for new homes is going to rise again as more Baby Boomers and more Millennials search for homes. New technology is going to revolutionize the way that agents sell homes and some of the incoming design trends will be a welcome change from the tired trends of the last ten years. Here are some of the biggest up and coming real estate trends in 2018:

Going Virtual

You’re already using the Web to connect with buyers and post listings but new advances in technology are going to take Web selling to another level. Augmented video and virtual reality applications are making it easier than ever for buyers to see and tour a home totally online. Zillow is even…

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How To Give Outdated Bathrooms A Cheap Facelift

Bathrooms are one of the things that will make a potential buyer want to buy a Edmonton home, or not buy a home. But sellers who are selling older homes may not want to spend money on extensive bathroom renovations to replace outdated fixtures or make the bathroom look more appealing to potential buyers. Making a bathroom look more appealing to buyers doesn’t have to mean spending a lot of money on renovations. There are plenty of ways that sellers can give those old bathrooms a quick facelift without spending a ton of money so that buyers will be more likely to want to buy the home. Here are some tips from home stagers and Top Edmonton Real Estate agents for fixing up an old bathroom on a tight budget:

Regrout The Tile

Even clean bathrooms can look…

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