How Buyers Find Your Home

What methods do perspective purchasers use to find the home of their dreams? The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has just released the 2010 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers. This report is recognized by most as the best compilation of data on today’s buyers and sellers because of the enormous amount of data available at NAR’s fingertips.

 Here is what most buyers do first when they start looking for a home:
You can see that buyers today want to explore their options online (combined 47%) or check with industry professionals (combined 27%). You could argue that the use of the internet is a fairly new phenomenon, however, the report looks back over the last nine years. While the percentage of those using the internet has dramatically increased (from 8% to 37%), it might interest you to know that even back in 2001 only 9% of buyers found their home through print media (that number is now 2%).   [where: 75230]