Leading to sales-at-site owner fizber.com has released a study on the demography of FSBO sites. The recent studies carried out by fizber.com shows that the FSBO sites attract more affluent, slightly more female than male audience. These Web sites to respond to a primarily older, mostly Caucasian audience with the household income over $ 100,000/year. The typical visitor shops at Home Depot and watches The DIY-Do It yourself "Cable Channel. The people of the middle class is more open to FSBO, because there is a greater incentive for them to save this 6%. According to the study, three quarters of all Americans begin their quest for a new home on the Internet. Dozens of FSBO sites now offers Home sellers a platform for marketing their homes to millions of potential customers on the Internet. A typical FSBO Web site allows the seller to post a classified listing-style with more photos of houses, together with e-mail and phone contact information. Most of these home buyers and sellers use of the Internet to its fullest potential to save tens of thousands of dollars in agents ' fees.
The investigation has shown that 78% of consumers who are planning to buy or sell a home in the next three years, believes agents ' commissions are unjustified. The same study also found that 92% of the owner to the salespeople of will sell their next home without the use of an agent. The concept of the tantalizing: instead of paying a 6% Commission to a Realtor, sell your House yourself on the Internet.
The desire to reduce the transaction costs associated with selling real estate is not, however, the only reason for what makes FSBO will become so popular. Today's Home sellers want more choice and more flexibility than they have had in the past. Top reasons why people use the FSBO sites is to get information about homes for sale, information on recently sold homes and help determine a bid price on a home …
The researchers also found that New York and Florida is among the hot markets for home sellers who do not want to turn a property agent. But what makes FSBOs hot in one city and not in another?
"Some regions in the United States is more susceptible to Internet shopping than others," says Chris Taylor, fizber.com Analytics Department Manager. "According to the research, homeowners in Florida and New York that are more susceptible to selling without an agent, because the customers here use the Internet more frequently than people in other States, but there are still several other smaller factors driving strong FSBO activity in certain markets" …
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