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Jordan McPelt
Jordan McPelt is a professional writer specializing in search engine optimization and SEO please visit http://www.seo.com 
By Jordan McPelt
Published on 12/11/2008
 
An article about the benefits that come from the online real estate listing revolution to the home-buyer, seller, and real estate agent.

Real estate listings online is an innovation that has given the potential home buyer all the power. The online real estate listing reduces the time spent with the real estate agent from months to minutes with virtual tours, details and home pictures for the home buyer. When looking through a real estate listing, it is important to find all the information you need in order to make an informed decision on your next home purchase, but more than that, the home seller can use the information in real estate listings to gauge their own home price for sale.

The Home Buyer and Real Estate Listings

When searching for the perfect home, many of the steps in the home buying process have been eliminated thanks to real estate listings. The home buyer can now search for all the listings in a given area without the help of a real estate agent. The search results can be sorted based on number of bedrooms, total square footage of the home and number of bedrooms to name a few. There are even search engines for real estate listings that allow the home buyer to search based on specific address and school ratings.

The Home Seller and Real Estate Listings

The home buyer is not the only one who can take advantage of real estate listings. The home seller can search through the homes for sale in a given area, and see how fast the homes are selling and at what price. The comp home prices, usually a job of the real estate agent, are very important to the home seller. The agent most often will advise a home seller to list their home within the comp home price range. Now, the home seller can save the money spent on a real estate agent and find out the comp home sales amounts in their area and price their own home accordingly.

The Power of the Real Estate Listing

For both the home buyer and the home seller, the real estate listing is something that takes the power away from the real estate agent. But, that does not mean the agent does not get a great service by listing their homes online. The home buyer and home seller search those listings which are placed online by a real estate agent. The agent can reach far more people with a great MLS listing than any open house or tour of a home that is for sale. Then the real estate agent can spend more time listing and less time planning open houses and showing homes. The increased visibility of the homes allows for more sales and less time spent on each sale.

The real estate agent, the home buyer and the home seller all can take advantage of the real estate listings online. Finding the perfect home, when the home buyer has every home in the United States and abroad to choose from, makes the decision process harder but the opportunity to find the perfect home much greater.