Everyone has a smartphone. That means you’re connected to a vast array of information to help with financial planning, researching neighborhoods and schools, and sorting through listings to see homes. It’s all there at your fingertips.
Just as there is a difference between Starbucks and Folgers, there are important distinctions between home-search apps and tools. (The “best part of wakin’ up is Folgers in your cup.”?? Um, I don’t think so!) Zillow and Trulia are popular and offer accurate information. Website or app, they have their limitations.
John L. Scott Real Estate prides itself on delivering great technology to its clients and brokers. True, buyers can use any app to find homes through a simple search. However, with the John L. Scott app, buyers can use any device to save multiple searches based on different criteria. Say you want to find condos on the market in ZIP code 98121 (Belltown), conduct a second search at a specific development under construction in South Lake Union and keep tabs on a third for single-family homes in a tiny slice of that leafy section of Queen Anne you’ve always enjoyed visiting. You can do all that easily with our Property Tracker ® within the John L. Scott app.
What’s truly special about Property Tracker is that you can receive email or text notifications every time a new listing or an update to an existing listing hits the market – immediately. No other app in the market can offer faster notifications. (Or you can receive notifications at longer intervals.)
Wouldn’t it be an advantage to know of a new listing hours before competing buyers in the market?
To compliment the app, John L. Scott also produces a customized home-sales report for each search area you saved on your Property Tracker app. The report is called MarketInsights – a colorful, data-rich market assessment delivered to your Inbox the same day as your saved search. The report includes stats on new listings, pending sales and solds, as well as current inventory (in terms of months) for the specific area you searched. And updates to the report are sent automatically at the beginning of every month. Zillow and others don’t offer that.
You can monitor your targeted real estate search through MarketInsights anytime. There’s no need to use Property Tracker or even to have a desire to buy or sell a property. You may just want to know what’s going on in your market. We can make sure you get the information you need when you want it.
Who wouldn’t want that?
Your knowledgeable John L. Scott broker – hopefully me! – will help show you the homes on your Property Tracker search list as well as explain what the MarketInsights report means for you. After all, we are the hyperlocal expert.
Without sounding too boastful, buyers who work with John L. Scott have a distinct advantage when it comes to tech and finding the best home at an affordable price.
A computer mouse will never buy a house.
Let your John L. Scott broker get you started with the tech tools you can use today to find that dream home of tomorrow.
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