Selling a home ‘by owner’ may save consumers a real-estate agent commission, but it also makes it harder to get the broad exposure agents typically provide. Iggys House, launched in March, offers sellers a way onto critically important MLS lists—for free.
More than 70 percent of all homes are sold through the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in the United States, according to Iggys House, and MLS listings also cause homes to appear on leading real-estate websites like Realtor.com. Homeowners handling the selling process themselves must typically pay at least several hundred dollars to get their homes listed in those databases through discount brokers. IggysHouse.com, on the other hand, offers sellers in 20 states free access to MLS and Realtor.com—a nationwide roll-out is planned for the end of the year—along with an individualized website that allows sellers in every state to post a home for sale with unlimited descriptions, photos, videos and other rich media.
How do they keep it free? Simple. Chicago-based Iggys House also runs BuySideRealty.com, which assists buyers and gets a buyer’s agent commission for each sale. Iggys House delivers 75 percent of that commission—an average of USD 11,000 per sale, received from a home's seller—to the buyer, and uses the rest to fund both sites."Sellers are buyers in the making," explains Joseph Fox, Iggys House CEO. "If we help a homeowner successfully sell their house, there's a good chance that they will subsequently use our buyer's agents to buy their next home. That's a central part of our business model, and it continues to work exceedingly well." Indeed, by late August, Iggys House had already been used to list some 3,100 properties with a combined list price of more than USD 1 billion. Twenty-four percent of all buyers currently find their homes online, Iggys House says, and it seems likely that trend will continue. Innovative model to bring to a market near you?
Website: www.iggyshouse.com
Contact: info@buysiderealty.com
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A well proportioned family house with double garage and beautiful formal gardens situated within the delightful surrounding countryside. Presented in fine decorative order throughout. Excellent rail links to London (approx 45 mins) and all the major motorways. (London approximately 60 miles). 5 miles from Brightston, which offers excellent shopping and leisure facilites
£250,000
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i will give you my phone number on reply
james
With due respect, I introduce myself; I am a dealer of Gold, Diamond, and other minerals and raw materials obtainable in Africa. I sell and represent companies in procurement of whatever is their need in Africa.
I represent a lot of Local miners Co-operations or associations that jointly put their products together for sale, in Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Ghana.
CURRENTLY I HAVE THE FOLLOWING PRODUCT PRESENTLY:
GOLD DUST,................. OR (AU)
QUANTITY,...................255KGS
QUALITY,....................22+ CARATS
PURITY,.....................98 TO 99.9%
FORM,.......................POWDER.
PRICE,......................$9,000 USD PER KILO.
ORIGINE,....................BURKINA FASO.
The sales conditions are:
1) Buyer will take care of further exportation charges.
2) Buyer will provide a Bank Guarantee to back the goods.
3) Any discovered loss of weight will also be deducted from the goods value.
Thanks,
Michael Kwame | October 17, 2007 11:51 PM