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Treasure Coast with a family of buyers, that agent is spending their time Is this trend here to stay? My bet is yes. Just as the big

Real Estate Report showing homes via the Internet. box retail industry is vacating shopping centers and moving

One aspect of this new trend, and sometimes the most to online sales, the real estate industry seems to be doing
Real Estate Is Booming, But The Computer Is King frustrating, is that buyers prefer to first take a self-guided something similar.
virtual tour of a home, rather than actually going to it. This It was already heading that way, but the COVID-19
By Jim Weix can be a real timesaver for everyone, unless the listing situation just speeded things up.
COVID-19 changed a lot agent or seller doesn’t have such a tour of their property. I had lunch with a national real estate expert early
of things. There was a fear I hire a professional photographer to take photos, create last year, before COVID-19 became an issue. He told me
that it would put real estate a 3-D self-guided virtual tour, and aerials with a drone of that the traditional way real estate is done was fast dying.
into a tailspin, but instead all my listings. However, if a buyer is interested in another He predicted that everything from what sellers pay in
it soared. Monthly sales property that is not my listing or a For Sale by Owner, I commission, to how properties are marketed, and the role
volume increases over the often have to go and do my own virtual tour. I do my best, a Realtor plays, would change dramatically. It seems he
same month a year ago have but I often wonder why a seller would settle for something was right, so I’m glad that I took his advice and adapted.
become the norm. However, less than professional. Others won’t.
the pandemic has changed A professional tour has also become even more Like the main character in Death of a Salesman, by
how things are done. important now that people are less willing to hop on a playwright Arthur Miller, there will be those that long for
Gone are the Parade of plane. I’m selling more and more homes where the buyer the day when all a salesperson needed was “a smile on
Homes type tours. One reason is that properly marketed often never physically sets foot in the home. their face and a shine on their shoes.”
homes don’t stay on the market long enough to be on a Instead, after the contract is signed, they rely on me to Jim Weix is a broker associate with The Keyes Company.
tour. The other is sellers don’t want a bunch of people meet with the home inspectors. Often, they have me take Jim has 24 years of experience selling real estate full time.
marching through their home. my own close-up photos of certain areas. One recent event If you have questions or want the services of an experienced
The real estate industry has evolved into an industry was the buyer’s lender wanting pictures of a crawl space. expert, you can reach Jim at (772) 341-2941 or jimweix@
where computers and 3-D virtual tours play a dominate As I crawled into it, I was met with an opossum that didn’t jimweix.com.
role. Instead of an agent driving around in a clean car filled want to share its home with me.
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