How a Press Release Can Benefit Your Real Estate Business

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Real estate businesses typically rely on several marketing platforms to reach as many potential clients as possible. The average real estate marketing strategy often includes a well-crafted website, a few social media sites, and paid online advertising. Another effective tool in the real estate industry is a press release. There are several benefits of writing blurbs about your business or posting articles about industry-related topics online. Linking press releases back to your website will also help to increase traffic and boost your search engine optimization. Read on to discover how press releases can benefit your business this year.

Showcases your expertise

Are you looking for a way to showcase your industry knowledge to your prospects? An informative press release is an excellent tool for putting your real estate knowledge on display. People often look for reassurance that they are working with a reputable agent as buy or sell a home. Press releases are also excellent for gaining media coverage, which will further support your reputation for homebuyers and sellers who are looking to hire you.

Provides relevant local updates

A weekly, bimonthly, or monthly statement from your real estate business will help generate a positive buzz about your real estate business. One of the best tricks is to use a variety of location-specific keywords within your press releases, such as city or neighborhood names, to increase your SEO.

Improves the visibility of your business

A quality press release can help to improve your real estate business visibility. A new agent who is looking to establish their real estate business should consider implementing a press release as a part of their advertising campaign. For instance, a realtor can write about their background and what their specializations in real estate industry. With a press release, a real estate business can share a variety of informative content with potential clients.

HUD Foreclosures

HUD foreclosures and VA Foreclosures are some of the best homes to buy when price is part of the equation. As with most Americans, price is always a concern. If not buying the same house for less, why not buy more house for the same dollar invested? When looking for a good deal it is hard to do better than the VA or HUD foreclosures market. The simple truth is that there are just more VA and HUD homes on the market, as they represent such a large number of mortgages that are generated each year. This translates into more foreclosures just by the magnitude of difference between all others comparing to the two largest.

The two largest also being government owned and operated means that they have less time to wait to make money back on the home. The FHA is especially known for selling HUD homes for less than the average sales price in a given area. FHA foreclosures represent a fraction of HUD but they are still a significant number of homes and both should be considered.

VA (Veterans Administration) and HUD (Housing and Urban Development) have different and unique opportunities for the buyer. Both are often forgiven for the local taxes normally associated with the purchase of a home (this is on a county by county basis). Be sure to ask the local title company or escrow company to look into it for you before closing as this is often missed due to their are not used to dealing with the 2 to 3 percent of the market that VA and HUD foreclosures represent.

Foreclosure Listings Increasing

As the market settled after the mortgage meltdown foreclosure listings also settled and fewer homes were on the market with a placard reading “Bank Foreclosure” in big red lettering. This was a good thing for the entire real estate market. Having an abundance of foreclosures brings the entire market down and it makes it harder for home owners, who would like to move, to get the appropriate price for their home as a similar home down the same street was sold for substantially less and the appraiser is using the foreclosure as a comparable sale.

This is just one of the problems when there are too many foreclosure listings in any area. Another issue is the television set that sits in everyone’s living room harping about the price of homes based on the number of foreclosures and this constant barrage of negative information makes most people sit on the sidelines waiting for the market to either implode completely or to correct itself. Meanwhile while they wait, others are buying foreclosure listings and making great investments.

Whatever the reason, a market can only handle so many foreclosure listings at any given time. The more foreclosures, the lower the market gets and this is a lesson the banks that were foreclosing and selling off realized too late. The market and their investments would have been better off if there had not been a rush to divest themselves of the toxic assets made more toxic by their own actions.