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Hot Real Estate Canada Lead Producer Websites for Real Estate Agents Apr 10, 2006 - Linknet News - In a new program just announced, Linknet Promotions Inc. is offering Lead Producer Websites to real estate agents, real estate service providers, online real estate services, and other related services. Details of this offer are as follows: - Includes new original domain name and hosting - Includes response generators designed especially for real estate agents - to generate response from website visitors - Includes free autoresponder for receiving inquiries at your email address, and sending programmed responses automatically to those who respond How it works Linknet Lead Producer Websites are part of a promotional program aimed at generating traffic and leads to help you sell your products or services. The objective is to create a web presence for you, or enhance your current web presence. We do this by creating an extensive linking program using the Linknet network of websites -- many of which are real estate sites. Linknet Lead Producer Websites are fully functional websites with their own unique domain name, and special content targeted towards getting visitors interested in your target market. If you already have a website, your Linknet site is not meant to replace or compete with your current site. It is meant to enhance it. To qualify for a free website, interested agents and service providers must purchase one of our website promotional packages. The qualifying programs are 50 Links-a-Month ($39/mo) and 100 Links-a-Month ($59/mo). This program is currently available to real estate agents and real estate services in the U.S. and Canada. For more information go to Real-Estate-Webs.com Go here see a demo free website Online Loans - Applying for an Online Loan June 18, 2006 - Linknet Finance Commercial property loan - - Quick closings for difficult U.S. commercial property loans. Applying for a Loan Online by John Mussi Here is a basic guide to looking for a loan online, including shopping around to find the best interest rate so that you can save money on your loan in the long run. Kitchener-Waterloo, Barrie will be next real estate hot spots Mar 15, 2007 - Linknet Real Estate News >> Kitchener-Waterloo, Barrie will be next real estate hot spots - While Alberta and British Columbia have grabbed most of the headlines in the recent 2006 census report, Ontario's population growth over the last five years was also very significant. Driven mainly by immigration, the population of Ontario grew 6.6% between 2001 and 2006. That compares to an increase of 10.6% in Alberta and 5.3% in B.C. And while the Calgary-Edmonton corridor is viewed as the primary economic development hot spot in Canada, Ontario has a much more diversified economy and tends not to suffer from the same economic peaks and valleys as the western provinces. Virtually all economic growth in Alberta and B.C. is tied to resource development -- especially the price of oil. This led Don R. Campbell of the Real Estate Investment Network to say "If I were to invest in the country, I'd say Barrie and the Kitchener-Waterloo region would be my two top choices." The main reason is that of the 6.6% population increase in Ontario's registered over the last 5 years, 84% of that growthtook place in Toronto and the towns and cities surrounding the city. That amounts to almost half of the entire population growth in the entire country. And of that growth in the Toronto area, only 0.9% took place in the city itself. The suburban ring around Toronto -- accounting now for more than 5 million people -- is pushing further and further out, creating new suburban hot spots. Barrie and the Kitchener-Waterloo are on the edges of the ring. They are already hot real estate markets, and are almost certainly going to get much hotter in the next few years. |
SBO-Linknet.com is the home of the Linknet Publishing Network. This is a growing network of active websites covering various areas of interest from Online Marketing to Golf to Personal Health and Real Estate. Flat Fee MLS Listings - Is This The Future Of Real Estate?Mar 27, 2006 - Linknet Product News Flat Fee MLS Listings - Is This The Future Of Real Estate? Mar 27, 2006 - Linknet Real Estate News - by Richard MasseyRealtors are all a buzz about this new form of listing houses on the MLS (multiple listing service). Some feel it creates more work for the buyers agent, while others see this as a way to tap into the For Sale By Owner market. == Quality real estate investing course == It used to be when you made the decision to sell your home, you essentially had two methods available to you. You could list your home with a traditional real estate company and pay 6-7% commission or you could try selling on your own "for sale buy owner". Research shows that nearly 50% of all home sellers start out trying to sell their property on their own. Although some home owners are successful with FSBO, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) home seller survey, only sixteen percent of sellers actually sell their home without exposure on the MLS. And many of them end up giving away their commission savings to the buyer to close the deal. Realtors tend to avoid for sale by owner properties because they are working with buyers and have no written agreement to be compensated. If the seller has not agreed in writing to pay a commission to the agent, the buyer could cut the agent right out of the deal and negotiate directly with the seller. It happens... == Waterloo Ontario Real Estate == With flat fee MLS service, the seller has agreed in writing to pay a commission, usually 3%, to the buyers agent. This motivates Realtors to bring the seller a buyer. How it works: Real estate commissions by law are negotiable. In a flat fee listing, the listing agent agrees to a flat fee instead of a percentage of the sale price. This can be anywhere from 0-0 for the service of adding your house to the MLS. Then you choose how much to pay the buyers agent in commission for bringing you a buyer (typically 3%). So in the sale of a 0,000 house you would pay ,000 plus the flat listing fee, saving a close to ,700 in commissions. The plus side is in the listing agents contract, the right to continue advertising you house FSBO. So in the event you find a buyer without an agent you save on all commissions and only pay the flat listing fee. What do you get with flat fee MLS listing: Advertise your home on Realtor.comŪ Market to buyers working with a RealtorŪ through the MLS Market to Buyers working without a RealtorŪ Retain your right to sell your property by owner Avoid paying any real estate listing commission by paying a flat rate or fixed fee upfront Only pay a commission if a buyer's agent sells your home Why would a listing agent want to do this? For real estate agents this can be an opportunity to increase revenue by listing more homes. There are many people who refuse to use realtors because of the 6-7% commissions, but are more than willing to pay 3%. With the increase of internet marketing, realtors can reach more people because all they are offering is to list the house on the MLS. Services are minimal and the listing agent really won't be trying to find a buyer for you, but rely on the buyers agents. This allows them to list properties in a larger area and in some cases in other states. With the increase of house prices, is the 6% sales commission going to survive or will flat fee listings be the wave of the future? Only time will tell... About The Author - Richard Massey is a note broker with United Financial Resources and a real estate investor. You can get more information at http://www.unitedfinancialresources.com or to read more articles go to http://unitedfinancialresources.com/news.html Reprinted from Real Estate Articles
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