Archive | June, 2011
Tips & Tricks: Know your area at a glance with RP Mapping

Tips & Tricks: Know your area at a glance with RP Mapping

Many real estate professionals use maps to research their local areas and enhance their local knowledge.  The RP Mapping tool of RP Professional not only offers many useful features to help handle this, but can also provide handy material for presentations. As shown in its tutorial video and Getting Started Guide, the big difference between the RP Mapping tool and [...]

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The Vendors Journey to setting a price

Tips & Tricks: How to get a vendor to list at the ‘right’ price

Most vendors do not know what their property is worth. They may form an opinion based on what they see selling locally (adding a bit because their property is naturally better), but usually they rely on agents. That’s a problem, because if you quote prices accurately but a competitor quotes higher, chances are you’ll lose [...]

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Tips & Tricks: Bringing new buyers to you with a CMA

The most common use of the RP Data Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) reports by real estate agents is in listing appraisals.  We are also beginning to see more and more agents use the reports to promote engagement with property purchasers in the buying phase. But how can a CMA be used to target the best [...]

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Showcase Your Vendor's Property with RP Lister

Something big is just around the corner….RP Lister.

I can’t say too much, but we’re very pleased to advise that RP Data’s listing presentation tool for ipad will be released to the Apple App Store very shortly. RP Lister is RP Data’s new pre listing presentation app which helps sales agents and vendors to interact in a number of conversations about the property and [...]

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Tips & Tricks: Get real value from Automatic Valuation Model reports

Tips & Tricks: Get real value from Automatic Valuation Model reports

Many agents struggle to see the value of RP Professional’s Automatic Valuation Model (AVM) reports, preferring to use a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) report or conduct their own research to come to an opinion or value. While this is a well-established way of engaging with customers and managing their expectations, AVMs can leverage RP Data’s [...]

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Tips & Tricks: List, sell and prospect with the Market Compare Report

A recent survey of RP Data customers found that more than 71% of respondents are already using the Market Compare Report on RP Professional to help boost their commissions. We showed you how the Market Compare Report clearly presents your area’s comparable days on market and percentage discounts of listings. In this post we’ll take [...]

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Tips & Tricks: Market Compare Report

Tips & Tricks: Market Compare Report

Agents using our Market Compare Report tell us they’ve been earning $50,000+ more commission. So what is this report, and how does it offer such value? The Market Compare Report shows: Days on market Vendor discounting from listing to sale This helps you at appraisals, during listings and when hunting new opportunities. We track every [...]

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