Columbus Ohio real estate

The Brookside Woods Neighborhood

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The Brookside Woods neighborhood in northwest Columbus is unique in that there are two school districts within the neighborhood.  Part of Brookside Woods is in Dublin schools and part is in Worthington schools.  School districts in Central Ohio were put in place long before this area was developed.   A house is in one school district or the other, there is not a choice of school districts on any house in Central Ohio.  Within each school district there are attendance areas for each neighborhood.

Brookside Woods is in the Columbus Ohio 43235 zip code, the West Worthington zip code, which was part of the Worthington, 43085 zip code until the late 1980s.   Brookside Woods is west of Brookside Golf and County Club  and runs from Snouffer Road on the north  to Dublin Granville Road on the south.    Brookside Woods is inside 270 and there is good access to Sawmill Road and 315 from the neighborhood.

The average home in Brookside Woods is about 2300 square feet.  The average home is four bedrooms and two and a half baths.  Brookside Woods homes were primarily built in the 1980s.

Brookside Woods homes for sale - Search

Search the online inventory of Dublin and Worthington area homes on my site. You will be offered the opportunity to receive listings directly from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS for Brookside Woods or other Central Ohio neighborhoods you are interested in.

 

Central Ohio School Districts - including Dublin and Worthington

Columbus Win-Win Agreeement 

Worthington schools are not included

Zillow on Central Ohio School Districts

 

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7 commentsMaureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate • December 30 2010 09:06AM

Stilson Highlands Neighborhood


Stilson Highlands

 

The Stilson Highlands neighborhood is on the northwest side of Columbus inside 270 in the Worthington City School District.  The Stilson Highlands neighborhood's current school attendance* areas are:

Elementary School - Bluffview

Middle School - McCord

High School - Worthington Kilbourne

The majority of the homes in the Stilson Highlands neighborhood  were built in the 1980s.  The average square footage is just over 3000. The average Stilson Highlands home is four bedroom and two and a half baths.  

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*School attendance area can change year to year based on population shifts within most school districts.  The Worthington City School District website has a map that shows attendance areas as well as a list of attendance by street address.

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0 commentsMaureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate • December 28 2010 01:37PM

Christmas Morning in Worthington - Winter is colorful, after all.

Christmas Morning in Worthington Ohio 1928

Worthington Christmas 1928

Don O'Brien and his younger brother David on Christmas morning in 1928, in one of black and white photos he shares on Flickr.   Actually their house on W. Wilson Bridge Road was north of Worthington.  The house at 130 W. Wilson Bridge Rd. was out in the country north of the Village of Worthington in the 1920s. The Village of Worthington, what is now called "Old Worthington" was from North St. to South St. and Morning St. to Evening St., West Wilson Bridge Rd. was way out in the country in Sharon Township.  In the 1930s at least W. Wilson Bridge Road was in the Worthington school district of the time, there was a Sharon Township school district too.

On his Flickr page on this and another Christmas 1928 photo, Mr. O'Brien describes the flash powder used to take the indoor photos.  They had to open the windows to clear the smoke after the photos were taken.

Look at those toys!  I tried last year to find something on Delko Dumper or Delko Wagons but was not able to.  See the Tinker Toy container on the right?

Another Christmas Morning with the O'Brien family?  Christmas Morning 1935 - Don O'Brien got his first camera. This photo is "All Rights Reserved" it is one of my favorites on Flickr.  Don O'Brien has a great collection of his own photos of Worthington Ohio from the 1930s and 1940s.

Christmas in Worthington Ohio 1928 - Winter is colorful, after all

I wondered if there was snow on the ground on Christmas morning 1928.  From his father's diary describing their Sharon Township Property at 130 W. Wilson Bridge Rd.:

"Wandering around outdoors in the bright, snappy air this afternoon, I looked at the Euonymus patens or spreading euonymus, the Viburnum rhytididiphyllum and the Oregon hollygrape, each green in the shrub border. Berries still cling to the highbush cranberry, some of the cotoneasters and the barberry. Many of the rock garden plants not yet covered were still green and fresh. Winter is colorful, after all."

just  part of a commment that Mr. O'Brien (Dok1 on Flickr) added last year to the photo of him and his brother on Christmas 1928.  O'Brien's father wrote a column for Better Homes and Gardens magazine and wrote extensively for Country Gentleman, a magazine for farmers.  The father's diary tells about Christmas Eve preparation for Donald and David's Christmas morning, what he got for Christmas 1928 and about a walk outside, "Winter is colorful, after all."    The photo of the O'Brien brothers in front of their Christmas tree in 1928 is linked to the photo, so you can read more of what Don O'Brien shares from his father's diary.

Wilson Bridge 1936 or 1937

Worthington School Bus 1938

The Christmas Morning 1928 photo is part of Don O'Brien's Flickr Photostream - Dok1.  Just today Mr. O'Brien  added to Flickr a photo of himself on Christmas 1933, with his main gift, a desk.  A few days ago he shared a card his mother made for Christmas 1930.  The photo of Christmas Morning 1928 is licensed with a Creative Commons license which allows me to use it here.

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3 commentsMaureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate • December 25 2010 10:25AM

Unused Furnace Air Filters ~ Chattels or Fixtures?

 

Christmas Eve... I should save this post for two weeks from now since it is about furnace filters* but I forgot today is Friday!  Maybe I forgot it was Friday and I need to post a post about a furnace here  because it is Christmas Eve?

Brian asked this question back in November and only got one comment and does not seem to have come back to answer it...  Furnace Friday with a legal twist.  I will answer the question "Chattels or Fixtures" in the first comment here and on Brian's original post because I would love to know the answer....

* January 7, 2010 is the first Friday in January and that is Furnace Filter Friday if you are changing your furnace filter the first of each month.  

Thanks to Brian Madigan for allowing a Re-Blog of his post "Unused Furnace Air Filters ~ Chattels or Fixtures? "

 

Via Brian Madigan LL.B. (Royal LePage Innovators Realty, Broker):

Unused Furnace Air Filters ~ Chattels or Fixtures? 

Bob moved into an old house and shortly after, he discovered that he needed to replace the furnace.

With all the moving costs this was going to be a very costly item. He didn't budget for the $10,000 in expenses.

However, his friendly furnace guy had a proposition. A manufacturer had some older model furnaces that were new and still in boxes but they were actually 9 years old. They would also include some replacement parts since they were not going to be stocking them any longer. This would represent a major saving in cost.

So, he bought and installed the brand new furnace which happened to have been manufactured 9 years earlier. He got some replacement air filters that came with the furnace. They will fit. New ones may not.

They were sitting beside the furnace when he sold the house. Can he take them? Or, are they fixtures and they must stay with the house?

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3 commentsMaureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate • December 24 2010 01:54PM

No, I can't explain why it says that on Zillow or Trulia!

Sorry. No, I can't explain why it says that on Zillow or Trulia!

Trulia and Zillow are big national sites that provide info about real estate. The real estate information on Trulia and Zillow is not even necessarily real estate for sale.  It's just real estate  information.

Trulia and Zillow are real estate search sites popular with buyers, nationally.

Zillow has Zestimates (estimates of real estate value that are not very accurate) Matt Grohe in  Des Moines Iowa wrote this post about Trulia and Zillow, two of the Big Three Real Estate sites.

Houses may be UnZillowable a concept from the late Joseph Ferrara of the Sellsius Real Estate Blog.

Trulia does not have Zestimates or Testimates or anything clever as far as home values.  You will find old listings on both Trulia and Zillow. You will find "Foreclosures" which are not real estate for sale on many sites. I think for Central Ohio, the school info on Trulia or Zillow could get a buyer or seller in trouble... It's just proximity.

Thanks Matt for allowing me to Re-Blog your post for Central Ohio consumers who may be confused about information they find on Zillow or Trulia about homes they are looking at, or their own home.   

Sorry. No, I can't explain why it says that on Zillow or Trulia!  maybe Matt can....

;- )

Via Matt Grohe RE/MAX Des Moines (RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts):

Back in the olden days, say 2008 or 2009, if you mentioned Zillow or Trulia you'd often get a blank stare. Nowadays it's more common for clients to come to their agents asking questions about what they've seen on the popular real estate sites. Oh, how I long for the good old days.

Trulia, based in San Francisco California and Zillow, based in Seattle Washington are data aggregators who target buyers and sellers of residential real estate. The centerpiece of the sites is listing data but they also provide information on schools, neighborhoods, sales trends, and home values, and the latter is often where the trouble starts.

In many cases, at least here in Iowa, the data on the sites does not jive with the facts, facts such as whether or not a property is actually for sale, how much the last sale of a property was for and the derivatives of these facts, number of sales, average listing prices, historical trends and property values. The data is in many cases just plain wrong and it serves to unnerve and aggravate both buyers and sellers alike. There's nothing like sitting down with a buyer to make an offer on a property and having them bring up the fact that the "Zestimate" says the house is worth $40,000 less than it is listed for on a $130,000 property, and despite the fact that it was the best house among the 20 you looked at in the $120-$140,000 range, the buyer still thinks they're having the wool pulled over their eyes.

The frustration is rivaled only perhaps by the buyer who has serious concerns about the neighborhood you showed them homes in because Trulia says prices there are down this year and it is overrun with foreclosures, even though your MLS data shows they've appreciated and there are only a handful of distressed sales. Or how about the buyer who wants to look at the home on Grand Ave which you did not send to them, but which they found for sale online, the same buyer who is demanding to know why you aren't sending them all the homes available for sale. The home in question? Oh, it's not for sale and hasn't been for months.(Client: Could you check again please? It's there online) And oh there is also the buyer who wonders "why does this house on Zillow say it has no garage when I can drive by and see it has a two car garage!?" And while we're on the subject please tell me why the website only shows one photo of the front of this other house? (a house which is not even for sale by the way!)

I feel for them all. These are people making a major purchase or sale and who might be basing their decisions upon data that is not consistently reliable. It also causes a breech of trust of sorts with real estate agents who are trying to provide accurate data which the client might view as suspect because it does not match the unmonitored aggregated data on an internet website! It's coming down to agents squaring off against an algorithym and having to defend impirical facts against blatant inaccuracies.

This weekend I entertained an out of town buyer looking at homes in the Des Moines area. I found myself spending a lot of time explaining why the reality of the market or home values did not match what was being presented on sites such as these. It was unnerving and I didn't like being in the position of explaining why the data was misleading and inaccurate. I found myself often saying that it was not a good idea to rely solely upon the data they presented to make purchase or sale decisions. Eventually I was able to show through MLS data, public records and plain common sense how the information presented was patently inaccurate and misleading. It was a Pyrrhic victory however as I faced the reality that even having done so the incongruity of facts created dissonance in the mind of the buyer, dissonance which could only be relieved by further research on, of all places, the internet.

It seems this is a new hat we agents get to wear, quantifying conflicting data from various Internet sites and putting it all in perspective in the mind of a buyer or seller. The Internet has created a treasure trove of data, all available at the click of a mouse. Problem is that the proverbial wheat needs to be separated from the proverbial chaff, and I suspect in the future this will command larger and larger blocks of our most precious commodity, time. I guess in that respect we in real estate probably have a lot in common with doctors and lawyers!

 

   

Contact Matt Grohe Realtor® RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts - 3125 Douglas Ave #205 Douglas Ave. Des Moines, IA , or call 515-988-3726 to list your property for sale or to purchase a property in Des Moines, West Des Moines, Windsor Heights, Clive, Johnston, Urbandale, Ankeny, Waukee, Norwalk, Carlisle or surrounding areas.

Online at: http://www.MyIowaHome.com

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Columbus Board of REALTORS® has Spoken

The Columbus Board of REALTORS® has spoken about November 2010 home sales in Central Ohio.  The News which was posted Tuesday, December 21, 2010 on CBR website  and emailed to members (and the media?)  on Thursday December 23, 2010... CBR News titled:   "November home sales down from last year -- but up from 2008"

says:

“Sales in November of 2009 were inflated as they reflected buyers trying to close on a home purchase before the expiration of the first 1st-time home buyer tax credit,” says CBR President Sue Lusk-Gleich. “Although the tax credit was extended (and expanded) in early November, many buyers had rushed to put a home in contract prior to that decision.”

“As November of 2010 and November of 2008 were both months unaffected by a tax credit incentive, it’s probably a better comparison.”

Huh? Really?  Wasn't there a First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit in 2008?   A different one... just for first time buyers...

Here's a great chart on Leticia Stevens (a Wilmington, Delaware real estate agent's)  blog...  best chart I've seen.  

2008 Tax Credit / 2009 Tax Credit  /  2010 Credit -  Comparison

Thanks Leticia!  Yes there was a tax credit in 2008. As successful as 2009 or 2010 which ended in April?   If the Columbus Board of REALTORS® is saying we are doing well in comparison this year and November 2008 was "unaffected by a tax credit incentive" but it was...  we are doing better than we think if we don't remember buyers were getting a tax credit incentive.

More about Columbus Ohio real estate markets - November 2010

"The Columbus Board of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service (MLS) serves all of Franklin, Delaware, Fayette, Madison, Morrow, Pickaway and Union Counties and parts of Champagne, Clark, Hocking, Licking, Fairfield, Knox, Logan, Marion, and Ross Counties. "  I don't.

Columbus, Ohio 43202 home sales

Columbus, Ohio 43214 home sales

Columbus, Ohio 43235 home sales

Dublin Ohio Home Sales  Wait Dublin is missing... I never posted Dublin? I will.  I know I wrote it....

Westerville Ohio Home Sales

Worthington Ohio  Home Sales

Olentangy Local School District Home Sales

Columbus Board of REALTORS MLS home sales - November 2010, my analysis of single family sales earlier in December for the whole MLS, "all of Franklin, Delaware, Fayette, Madison, Morrow, Pickaway and Union Counties and parts of Champagne, Clark, Hocking, Licking, Fairfield, Knox, Logan, Marion, and Ross Counties."

 

Above are all for single family.  The boards "News" includes condos...

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0 commentsMaureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate • December 23 2010 04:53PM

Columbus, Ohio 43202 Home Sales - Clintonville and More!

Columbus, Ohio 43202 home sales brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER, this Columbus zip code is Clintonville and more!

 

Columbus, Ohio 43202 home sales

The graph shows homes for sale and sold in the Columbus, Ohio 43202 zip code for the past 15 months.  The light green bars are Columbus, Ohio 43202 homes for sale.  The dark green bars and the Columbus Ohio 43202 homes sold.   The zip code on the north side of Columbus has only 5.4 months of homes for sale available based on November 2010 sales.  That is considerably lower than many parts of Central Ohio now.  Another difference?  Average sold price was down 11.7% in November 2010 from last November.  Average active (list) price is down 3.9% from a year ago.  The ten homes that sold in the zip code in November 2010 matched November 2009!

Columbus, Ohio 43202 homes for sale Search

Columbus, Ohio 43202 home sales a market report for Novemer 2010

  • 54 homes for sale
  • 10 homes sold
  • 5.4  months of homes for sale available based on recent sales

 

  • $173,000 average active price
  • $151,000 average sale price
  • $154,000 median sale price

 

Columbus, Ohio 43202 home sales neighborhoods  

Clintonville - Columbus Ohio 43202

The Columbus, Ohio 43202 zip code is Clintonville and more.  While zip codes are not really areas, they are just mail routes the Clintonville zip code starts just south of North Broadway. I believe all of North Broadway has a Columbus, Ohio 43214 zip code.

Clintonville, Crestview, Glenola Heights, Indianola Highlands, Indianola Terrrace, Old North Columbus, University City, University District, Wallhalla Park Place and Walhalla Ravine are some of the North Columbus neighborhoods in the Columbus Ohio 43202 ZIP code.

Published December 2010 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of November 2010.   Trendgraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors.  According to Trendgraphix neither  CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for it's accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed."  Therefor you have  no guarantee from me either since I am relying on their data!

If you use the "Columbus, Ohio 43202 homes for sale - Search*"  link you are able to search the online inventory of Central Ohio homes on my Real Living HER site.  You will be offered the opportunity to receive property  listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service)  in real time. You can know the true status of those properties you are interested in, in real time.

More about the Columbus Ohio real estate market

Columbus Ohio 43202 homes for sale  - a market report

Demographics on Columbus Ohio 43202  - based on 2000 Census Data

Columbus, Ohio 43214 home sales  - November 2010

Columbus Board of REALTORS MLS home sales - November 2010 compare Columbus, Ohio 43202 to Central Ohio

 

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5 commentsMaureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate • December 23 2010 06:33AM

Columbus, Ohio 43214 Home Sales - Clintonville Area and More

Columbus, Ohio 43214 home sales by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER, Clintonville area and more...

Columbus, Ohio 43214 home sales

This graph shows single family home sales in the Columbus, Ohio 43214 zip code for the past 15 months.

With 9.5 months of homes for sale based on November home sales in the area, it is a buyers market in the area.  November home sales in the area were down 45.7% from November 2009.   Average home price was up 31.8% from a year ago when 35 homes in the area sold.  The average sale price in the zip code  was higher than the average active (list) price in November,  there was a home in Clintonville that sold for over $700,000 in November.

Search Columbus,  Ohio 43214 homes for sale*

Columbus, Ohio 43214 home sales a market report for November 2010

  • homes for sale 180
  • homes sold 19
  • months of inventory 9.5
  • average active price $208,000
  • average sale price $236,000
  • median sale price $215,000

Columbus, Ohio 43214 Neighborhoods

Welcome to Clintonville SignThe Columbus,  Ohio 43214 zip code is on the north side of Columbus. The Columbus Ohio 43214 zip code borders Worthington.  The sign pictured says "Welcome to Clintonville." The sign is at the Columbus Corporation Limit (on the border of "Worthington Corporation Limit.")

Neighborhoods in the area* include Beechwold, Chaseland, Delawanda Park, Dominion Heights,  Old Beechwold, Sharon Heights, Tremont Gardens and others.  Trulia and Zillow (a couple of the large national real estate sites) refer to the entire area as Sharon Heights.  Part of Clintonville is in the 43214 zip code.  Clintonville has ambiguous borders.  The south boundary of the Columbus, Ohio 43214 zip code is North Broadway.  

A zip code is just a mail route, not a real area but zip codes are used extensively for data today.*  Columbus Ohio 43202 is south of 43214 and that is the Clintonville Station post office.

Published December 2010 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of November 2010.   Trendgraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors.  According to Trendgraphix neither  CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for it's accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed."  Therefor you have  no guarantee from me either since I am relying on their data!

If you use the "Search Columbus Ohio 43214 homes for sale* link above you are able to search the online inventory of Central Ohio homes on my Real Living HER site. You will be offered the opportunity to receive property  listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service)  in real time. You can know the true status of those properties you are interested in, in real time.

Columbus Board of REALTORS MLS home sales - compare Columbus Ohio 43214 to Central Ohio

Columbus Ohio 43214 homes for sale -  a market report

Columbus Ohio 43214 home prices -  a market report

Clintonville Conspiracy Theory Realtors Changing Borders

Clintonville is NOT a Suburb but the Best Columbus Neighborhood - According to some people anyway, a Columbus neighborhood poll

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2 commentsMaureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate • December 22 2010 09:41AM

Westerville Home Sales

Westerville home sales brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER

Westerville homes for sale

The graph shows Westerville homes for sale and Westerville homes sold for the past 15 months, single family properties only. With 466 Westerville homes for sale, there is 134% more inventory based on recent sales than a year ago.  Sale prices are up 7.1%  from November 2009.  Active (list prices) are down 12.9 % in comparison to Noember 2009.

 Westerville homes for sale *  Search

Westerville home sales a market report for November 2010

  • 466 homes for sale
  • 55 homes sold in November 2010
  • 8.5 months of homes for sale based on current home sales
  • $222,000 average active price
  • $196,999 average sale price
  • $185,000 median sale price

 

Westerville home sales - neighborhoods

Westerville signNovember home sales in Westerville schools  included homes in City of Westerville  neighborhoods such as  Annehurst Village, County Line Acres, Lehy Acres and others.  Westerville schools home sales in November 2010 had  homes in City of Columbus neighborhoods including Brandywine, Broadview Farms, Creek Ridge, Strawberry Farms and Westerville Woods. Blendon Township neighborhoods including Glengary Heights and Hoover Reservoir had home sales in November 2010.  A home in Minerva Park, a village in the Westeville school district sold in November 2010.  Genoa Township neighborhoods in Westerville schools  including Harvest Wind, Highland Lakes and Westerville Reservoir had home sale in November.

Published December 2010 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of November 2010.   Trendgraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors.  According to Trendgraphix neither  CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for it's accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed."  Therefor you have  no guarantee from me either since I am relying on their data!

If you use the "Westerville homes for sale* link you are able to search the online inventory of Central Ohio homes on my Real Living HER site for condos or single family homes. You will be offered the opportunity to receive property  listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service)  in real time. You can know the true status of those properties you are interested in, in real time.

Columbus Board of REALTORS MLS home sales

Westerville homes for sale

Westerville home prices

 

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0 commentsMaureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate • December 21 2010 10:06PM

Where will the buyer SEE your Columbus Ohio home?

Where will the buyer SEE your Columbus Ohio home?

Where will the buyer find your Columbus Ohio home?

On the Internet? 

On a local site?

Real Living HER website formerly HER Realtors

Your agents website? Mine as an example MaureenMcCabe.com

Your agents brokerages website?  My companies as an example - Real Living HER

Other local brokerages websites because of the magic of MLS IDX (Internet Data eXchange broker reciprocity*) OK IDX is more technology than magic. You can find the Re/Max and Coldwell Banker King Thompson, etc.  listings on the home search on my site.  You show ours and we'll show yours.  Does IDX  mean that all Columbus real estate brokerages are the same? They do not all get the same traffic. Not all local brokerages show up when a buyer searches Google, Bing or Yahoo for Columbus real estate. Or for your neighborhood. Or school district.

Where will the buyer SEE your Columbus Ohio home? One on of the Big Three



Trulia

Zillow

Realtor.com  

The Compete chart compares traffic for the Big Three.

Trulia, Zillow and Realtor.com are the "Big Three" because they've got lots of traffic. The Big Three in real estate have a lot more traffic than most local brokerages. Realtor.com has all listings from REALTORS® (members of the National Association of REALTORS®.) Trulia and Zillow do not necessarily have all listings of all "REALTORS®" but they have other stuff that generates traffic (Old listings that are already sold, future foreclosures presented as if they are for sale, Make me Move listings and more.) They are houses to look at but they are not necessarily for sale.

Where will the buyer SEE your Columbus Ohio home? What will they see?

If the buyer of your home stops to look for homes on Trulia, Zillow or Realtor.com* what will they find?

Your listing agent? (on Zillow and Trulia will your listing agent or even the brokerage claim the listing? ) Or is the lead being given to another agent because your agent has not "claimed" your listing? Not a bad thing necessarily....

Interior photos of your home or just one photo? 

Notice of open houses?

Updated information?

Change in a year, for the Big Three (real estate not auto)

Realtor.com -14.09%

Zillow +6.31%

Trulia +33.67%

If you click on the graph you can see that for yourself on Compete through November 2010. Traffic changed in 2010.

Other Internet places your home may be seen...

HotPads

ActiveRain

RealBird

Google Base....

Yahoo Homes / AOL / etc.

Craigslist

etc.

etc.

*I am not a big fan of Realtor.com, I never have been.  Realtor.com has the most traffic. It has had a lot of traffic for a long time.  It has the most listings. Our listings (Real Living HER, the #1 real estate brokerage in Central Ohio... ) all our listings are on Realtor.com with lots of photos. Our (Real Living HER) listings are on Zillow and Trulia and elsewhere as well. The listing agent determines if there are more than one photo,whether Open Houses are listed, etc.... they determine how much of your Columbus Ohio home gets seen by buyers trying to find homes for sale.

Where will the buyer see your Columbus home?

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