Friday, April 30, 2010

Real Estate…and…Technology?

Real estate is technically a legal term, which includes references to a certain plot of land, as well as the immovable improvements made to the land. Relocating, financing, estimating the value of homes, home warranty – these are just a few of the real estate services being offered in current times. The real estate business is evolving rapidly, encompassing the use of technology to simplify this ever-expanding process.

Realtors have begun to computerize their work, enabling them to approach people faster, in a more economical manner. Computerization helps the realtors to store information, and sort them at the same time, in a simple and efficient manner. They can pull up the information they need, with just one simple click, and schedule the computer to perform routine tasks, without any human intervention. In a broader sense, computers in the Real Estate business promote the realtors’ business, allowing them to personalize their marketing materials, and emphasize their individual approaches to their business. The business can flourish if the realtor sets up a website, since most people nowadays, first browse the Net when they need to make real estate deals. Sites which offer routine management services, such as escrow tracking, price reduction campaigns and buyer and seller updates, tend to be visited a lot more often by potential clients.
Communication technology is also used to a great extent, to leverage the time and income of a realtor. Leads for buyers and sellers can be generated with the use of call capture systems. Realtors who make it a point to follow up on every lead source, which come their way often, tend to be more successful in this now competitive field. Any real estate business must employ every communication mode available to them – phones, faxes, emails, call capture systems, cell phones, etc. – to get a large number of leads, clients and referrals base.

Technology of the Internet has revolutionized the world of real estate. Websites offering real estate services now have online feedback systems, so that the realtors can get a feedback of their listings. The sites also include a database of all of the listings of the realtors. Several sites offer tools and tips for realtors to enhance their businesses. A number of high end websites even offer online tours of houses which are listed. Many transactions can be completed without the realtor and client ever meeting in person. Several realtors open up real estate blogs on their sites too. Other realtors use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln and Flickr to promote their businesses by using social media in real estate.

Technology in the real estate business seems to be a normal trend in our times. It seems to the common man that these technological leaps are big, compared to the old practices of personally going to every home you considered buying. But, electronic media has made it possible for any business transaction, not just real estate, to be accomplished by not even leaving your home. Technology has affected every career, every field of work, which is open to the world today, and the real estate business is definitely no exception.

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