How Home Buyers Find Homes

According to Prudential California Realty, these

are the ways and percentages showing how

home buyers find the home they buy:

36% - Real Estate Professional

24% - Internet

15% - Yard Sign

7% - Relative, Neighbor, Friend

7% - Home Builder

5% - Newspaper Ad

3% - Knew the Seller

1% - Magazine - Homes for sale book

So, if you are a Realtor, you better start investing in more online Internet resources so that you can start attracting real estate home buyers here in Orange County, California.

If you are a home buyer, choose a well established Internet Realtor to handle your purchase…search for “(name of city or county) Realtor” and see who comes up highest. For example, search on Google for “South Orange County Realtor” or “San Clemente Real Estate” and choose from one of the top ten agents shown there.

You might want to select ONLY from Realtors shown there; sites that are mere lists or directories of agents often are not as reliable as the sites of actual agents who have their own have earned their own web presence and did not have to ride the back of a realty directory to get found.

If you are a home seller, choose a Realtor who has impressive web presence, not only on the Google and AOL search engines, but in many major real estate web sites in the list of agents who are associated with a given city.