Tag Archives: Online Advertising
Would You Buy a House From a ‘Virtual Auctioneer’?
The idea of online auctions entering the real estate world is frightening for most agents. Losing control of the crowd, not knowing if the bidders are real, unable to read the face of the one who’s just been outbid. But with the world now shrinking in terms of purchasers and the fact that we advertise our properties globally could there be some validity in taking house auctions into the online sphere? There are already phone bidders so why not an online bidder?
Virtual Real Estate
It’s hard enough to sell real property to real people, so how tricky would it be to enter into the fictitious real estate worlds of places such as Second Life (SL) or Home? And if you think it’s all mindless child’s games, what if you could be convinced to be there not to ‘play’ but to be seen by real potential customers and make real money? The validity of advertising in these virtual spaces is an interesting concept that is yet to be fully explored but it is happening…


