Jim Nicoll, as your listing agent, will run ads featuring your home. Newspaper ads could be large display ads with lots of listings or small classified ads featuring just your property. Ads may also appear in local real estate magazines such as Riviera, TV commercials and your listing will also show up on Jim's website at www.JimNicoll.com and camoves.com/James.Nicoll. Jim's site features properties listed on 20 Multiple Listing Services in Northern and Southern California. This cutting-edge website gives shoppers a property search function, which allows them to find your home searching by city, zip code, MLS# or property type. It also features:
- A "Home Delivery" function allowing buyers to register for an automatic email alert when homes that match their search criteria come on the market.
- A "Home Resource Center" where our representatives provide potential buyers for your home with one of the fastest online follow ups in the industry, including property specifics or answers to general questions like how to obtain a mortgage.
- The ability to request more information about your home, schedule a showing, calculate a mortgage payment and research your school, neighborhood and community information.
Coldwellbanker.com, is award winning and one of the industry's leading websites with more than 875,000 potential buyers among its visitors each month. The site features an easy-to-use search function that ensures interested shoppers will find your property, and it provides direct links to local Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage company websites, where consumers can find more details on your property.
REALTOR.com, has found that home buyers spend 86% of the time they search online for a home at their site. Coldwell Banker residential brokerage has launched an unprecedented alliance with this site, the Internets number one real estate site. And by placing your property on REALTOR.com, it will also be seen on the real estate channels of major web portals like AOL, MSN, Juno, Net Zero, The Wall Street Journal Online, Netscape, IWon, Excite, CompuServe, Digital city and more.
The agents representing homebuyers know about your home because Jim has listed it on the Multiple Listing Service, has been on office and broker preview, and because Jim as your agent has also sent flyers to all the local real estate offices.
The agents match up their clients with available homes, one of which may be yours. Then they show the homes to their clients, who eventually make an offer on one. That is how your house gets sold. Ads notify prospective buyers, and create a pool of clients, one of which buys your home.