Nearly half of home buyers visit open
houses during their home search, according to the 2011 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers survey conducted by the National Association of REALTORS ®.
Not exact matches
More than half of homebuyers who purchased approximately 5.5 million existing
homes in 2016 attended an open
house at some point
during their
search, according to a recent report from the National Association of Realtors (Real Estate in a Digital Age, 2017).
Additional resources utilized by buyers
during their
home search include for sale and open
house signs (64 percent of buyers) as well as referrals from friends and family (51 percent).
Home buyers who plan to
search for a
house during the second half of 2017, or early 2018, should be prepared for stiff competition.
-- Buyers use specific online tools
during different phases of the
home search process — How important «local»
search terms and websites are for buyers — How mobile technology cements online to offline
home buying — including the reading of online reviews — How video and YouTube satisfy buyers» research needs — The role of age and gender in driving real estate decision making in the market by being the top demographics who
searched online and took the next steps offline — Top states for
searches around first - time
home buyer tips and specific
housing segments like senior
housing and foreclosures
It is so very important,
during your
Home Search and especially
during the period of time between signing a contract and closing on a
house, that none of your financial situations change.
Some 9 million American families lost their
homes to foreclosure
during the late 2000s
housing bust, driving many to economic ruin and in
search of new residences.
The advice Setter gave them
during their
home search helped them pinpoint a
home they were ready to buy as soon as their
house was sold in July.