Why You Should Use Your Blog Page to Answer Homebuyer FAQs

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Blogging is one of the most underutilized internet tools by real estate professionals. It is a great platform to write and share quality content online. One of the main reasons why professionals struggle with blogging consistently is because they are unsure of which topics to cover. They either run out of ideas or are unsure of what buyers are searching for these days. If you are ever in need of topics for your blog page, consider choosing a question that you receive regularly. Read on and discover a few reasons why real estate professionals should use their website’s blog to answer homebuyer frequently asked questions.

Drives organic traffic

Many real estate professionals are unaware that blogging is an excellent way to drive free, organic traffic to your website. A blog page that contains several articles that are optimized with SEO best practices in mind will increase the organic search ranking of your website. For example, the right keywords will improve your organic rankings because they are words people you want to target are searching for at the current time.

Valuable resource

Some people are shy by nature and would prefer to find answers to their questions by doing an online search than asking over the phone or in-person. A blog page that covers FAQs by homebuyers will appeal to many individuals who want their questions answered without having to consult an expert on their own.

Establishes credibility

Do you want to put your knowledge and expertise on display? A blog page is one of the best platforms to showcase your expertise on display over the internet. By covering FAQs on your blog page, you can demonstrate to potential customers that you know what you are talking about, and people will be more inclined to trust you as their agent.

HUD Foreclosures

HUD foreclosures and VA Foreclosures are some of the best homes to buy when price is part of the equation. As with most Americans, price is always a concern. If not buying the same house for less, why not buy more house for the same dollar invested? When looking for a good deal it is hard to do better than the VA or HUD foreclosures market. The simple truth is that there are just more VA and HUD homes on the market, as they represent such a large number of mortgages that are generated each year. This translates into more foreclosures just by the magnitude of difference between all others comparing to the two largest.

The two largest also being government owned and operated means that they have less time to wait to make money back on the home. The FHA is especially known for selling HUD homes for less than the average sales price in a given area. FHA foreclosures represent a fraction of HUD but they are still a significant number of homes and both should be considered.

VA (Veterans Administration) and HUD (Housing and Urban Development) have different and unique opportunities for the buyer. Both are often forgiven for the local taxes normally associated with the purchase of a home (this is on a county by county basis). Be sure to ask the local title company or escrow company to look into it for you before closing as this is often missed due to their are not used to dealing with the 2 to 3 percent of the market that VA and HUD foreclosures represent.

Foreclosure Listings Increasing

As the market settled after the mortgage meltdown foreclosure listings also settled and fewer homes were on the market with a placard reading “Bank Foreclosure” in big red lettering. This was a good thing for the entire real estate market. Having an abundance of foreclosures brings the entire market down and it makes it harder for home owners, who would like to move, to get the appropriate price for their home as a similar home down the same street was sold for substantially less and the appraiser is using the foreclosure as a comparable sale.

This is just one of the problems when there are too many foreclosure listings in any area. Another issue is the television set that sits in everyone’s living room harping about the price of homes based on the number of foreclosures and this constant barrage of negative information makes most people sit on the sidelines waiting for the market to either implode completely or to correct itself. Meanwhile while they wait, others are buying foreclosure listings and making great investments.

Whatever the reason, a market can only handle so many foreclosure listings at any given time. The more foreclosures, the lower the market gets and this is a lesson the banks that were foreclosing and selling off realized too late. The market and their investments would have been better off if there had not been a rush to divest themselves of the toxic assets made more toxic by their own actions.