House swapping, the practice of exchanging properties is making a resurgence with help from a number of home swapping websites and services. Home owners who are interested in searching for others willing to exchange properties now have a number of resources to use to make their searches more fruitful.
Property owners are using sites such as onlinehousetrading.com , mkhomeswap.com , and besthouseswap.com to identify potential swap partners in the areas they are looking to relocate to. The reach of the Internet is making finding those elusive swap partners easier and faster.
In most cases these swap site require a registration fee that can range from $20 to over $250. Also the idea of a swap can be misleading. In most cases homeowners negotiate sale prices and work with real estate attorneys and mortgage lenders to facilitate property exchanges particularly when there is a difference in value between the properties. House swapping could be a for home owners looking to sell their Cincinnati Real Estate.
Our friend in Austin Texas is using all of his social media know how to sell his home. We spoke with David about some of the social media pieces we have used with our clients and he has shared his experiences with us. He sent us a music video over the weekend and we are posting it today. It is a unique take on the virtual tour. If any of our readers just so happen to be in the market for a 3/2 in Austin, Texas please let me know.
Everyone I know has been asking us “So how is the market doing … really.” The honest answer is that it is not as bad in Cincinnati as other place but of course, we would like it to be better. When we pulled up numbers and took a statistical look at both sale price and units sold the number show a decline, but not the catastrophic drop some other parts of the country have seen.
Hamilton County saw a decrease in sales of 14% (3137 to 2697) in the first five months of 2008 compared to the first five months of 2007. In the same time period sale price fell slightly by 11% ($169,617 to $152,360). The challenging part about these numbers, particularly the sale price is that there are so many bank owned homes being sold now at a fraction of their market value. With fewer overall sold properties, the higher volume of bank sales is having a greater impact on the average sale price in Hamilton County.
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