Wednesday, 26 August 2015

Does Blogging help Real Estate Agents?

Blogging has become popular with a huge number of individuals and small businesses to help promote their interests or services that they provide. Creating a blog can have a number of different benefits for any size real estate agencies and can help let your customers know who you are and the services that you offer. 

Real estate agent blogs have become an innovative accompaniment to any website for the following reasons.



Blogging is a way for you and your customers or fellow estate agents to stay up to date with what you are doing in terms of services, special offers or new additions to your repertoire. Blogging for real estate agents can be the simple addition of news from the local area in terms of housing and the renting and purchasing of properties.

Keeping Potential Customers Informed


This information can come in the form of new regulations in the local area that attain to planning permission, fees associated with re-selling properties, building works and other residential property news and information. Not only can you be informing your audience of readers about these important aspects of property law and planning permission, you can gain new audiences from similar industries.


As well as keeping your real estate agents blog up to date with the latest news and information in your local area pertaining to property, you can also display all of the properties you are managing, selling or renting on the site itself.


Going into more detail about a property is a great way to introduce buyers to different types of properties, and help sell the properties based on the features that they have. For instance, creating an article on your blog that covers the importance of having a property close to a good school zone and lists the benefits for your house price and the improvements to you and your children’s lifestyle is a great way to boost a potential sale.


Keep up with The Latest Trends in The Industry


treands in the real estate industry


Listing articles that speak to a particular audience is a great tool to help your customers decide on whether to purchase a particular property or not. For instance renovation on properties is a major industry that has been boosted by home DIY television shows and the possibilities of creating larger spaces that are modern and functional.

Unveiling some of the great renovation projects carried out by local construction firms on your blog is a great way to build partnerships and help sell properties that could do with some renovation work themselves. In all, a blog is a great way to help sell properties that need a little attention and help advertise the diversity of the properties you have on your books to help you stand out from the crowd.

Finding subjects that are relevant to your estate agency will be a case of looking for local information regarding the sort of industry you cater to, as well as looking for regulations and planning information in your local area.


A Winning Strategy


You can set up Google alerts to alert you via local news to planning permission and property development in your area for a quick information finding tool for your blog. Your strategy for creating a blog should be seen as an advertising tool, a marketing platform, as well as a helpful information platform for your customers and potential customers.

winning strategy

You can go more in depth about what your company is all about, your agents and the sales that they make. Along with necessary real estate agent qualifications and following up on home-owners and providing greater transparency will help boost your customer base, making your blog an important platform for your real estate agency in the future.