Browse Forums Real Estate 1 Feb 03, 2010 8:02 pm Few weeks till we put our house on the market and looking at the different marketing options and one is the pictorial sign. At first I thought yes...that's def a good idea and now i'm not so sure...when i drive or bus past places with pictorial signs I miss who the agent is and then have lots of trouble finding the house listing online. What do you think? are they worth the extra money? Are they meant for drive bys or walk by? Built Liberty 42 - Handover 26th Feb 2010 forum thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=17243 Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 2Feb 05, 2010 8:48 am personally im different. id judge the house on the pictures i can already see. This then turns people away who would have given it a chance. building heysen4e through SarahHomes at Milang IM THE PROUD OWNER OF DIRT house into council 22/08 Unconditionally approved 25/09 mortgage docs signed 29/09 land settled 09/10 land titled 22/10 start date about two weeks away!!! http://www.mymilangbuild.blogspot.com/ Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 3Feb 15, 2010 9:46 pm I've had my house listed twice in the space of 9 months, once with a picture sign and once without (just a generic agent sign). We received higher offers during the period we had the picture sign but fewer people at each open house. Both listings were during the depths of the GFC. I'm not sure you can draw any conclusions from this though. Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 4Feb 19, 2010 8:17 pm No, unless you want to increase the chances of your house being broken into. Its a RE marketing money maker. I would of course use a basic sign. Also why use a REA to sell your house, save yourself a heap of cash and sell yourself. You can do your own open houses and have them open for much longer than the 30min they put into it and get more people though. Just be realistic about the asking price. You can list on RE.com.au with save on commission for around 1k and you will get the same traffic as a REAgency.Good Luck Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 5Feb 19, 2010 9:18 pm When we sold our agent put a pictorial sign outside our house. They were pretty careful with the pictures they selected. there were no "high value" items in the photos used. Not that we had many anyway. Not sure it helped. Our neighbour bought our house 2 weekends after we moved away. Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 6Feb 19, 2010 9:24 pm i am easily more attracted to signs with pictures. go the picture. "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 7Feb 19, 2010 9:26 pm donuts i am easily more attracted to signs with pictures. go the picture. X 2. Can't resist 'em - when I'm out walking I always stop for a look. MagicJ I finally have my own reno thread: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28335 The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue! Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 8Feb 20, 2010 5:54 am We did the house hunting thing for 3 months in the Hills area . A few properties that looked average or below out front had pictorial signage of nicer features inside and that sometimes made the difference between us just going to the next open home or having a look. What was more important for us was the pictures that had up on Realestate.com as that was the first impression for 95% of the houses we were interested in. A poor set of pictures done by a drunk monkey with a cheap camera was one of the reasons why my old house had such a hard time selling but that was just one of a laundry list of issues we had with the selling agent . So I think that in this era of technology it's more important to have decent pictures on the web then pictures out front . Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 9Feb 20, 2010 7:47 am I'm going to agree with chopaweezacustoms on this, before deciding to build my fiance and I spent a couple of months looking at buying an existing property. The main thing for us was due to the relatively short period over the weekends that houses were actually open for inspection, friday night usually consisted of searching online for suitable properties, and the pics had a bid impact on whether it would make the short list. In terms of the random drive past for something not listed, we were enticed inside by some pictures on the signs, but that only happened once or twice when the property just happened to be between other ones we'd scheduled. Only other thing i'd suggest is maybe try having inspections at night by appointment as an option. Again one of our difficulties was getting to enough places with the travel time seeing as about 10-4 sat and sun is the standard time. Maybe consider running earlier or later just so people can actually get there to look. Other thing to consider if taking photos of your house for display depending on garden lighting and which direction the house faces, dusk or night shots can also add a level of interest to the image and hence your sign/online ad. Thats the thing if theres say 10 properties listed online for the same timeslot of a 1hr OFI, theres maybe 3 your interested in, chances are you can only make it to 2 within that hr and then make it to the next set. Good luck with the sale. Our Build - Places Fairhaven 23+ - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28045 Our Landscaping - Belial's Backyard - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45375 Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 10Feb 20, 2010 8:15 am Thanks for all the comments. Def getting a pro to take good pics of the house and going to go with the pictorial sign .. as it's not that much more than a plain sign and if it helps get 1 interested person in that buys I guess it's worth it. Madly spending this weekend tidying up round the place and starting to pack up all our extra "stuff" so the place doesn't look so bulging at the seems ready to shift i outta here next weekend. Then getting cleaners and carpet cleaners in to give the place a really good clean before ppl come and see it. Fingers crossed it sells quick. Built Liberty 42 - Handover 26th Feb 2010 forum thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=17243 Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 11Feb 20, 2010 10:44 am Good luck with selling, you shouldnt be paying for a basic sign anyway. The agent has dozens of them and moves them from house to house. Statistics say 90% of traffic comes off the web not driveby's. I reckon the missing 10% come from the web also. if you are on a main road then the picture sign may get some value but i really dont think they offer much value otherwise, how many of the other pro comments actually bought a house they seen via a picture sign? Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 12Feb 20, 2010 10:49 am tbh, I reckon if the place looks stunning, how can it hurt, perhaps not improve the sale, but wouldn't make it worse. on the other hand, if it's pretty basic, simple, I'd give that idea a miss! Don't want to turn people away in the street! A thankful person is a happy person. [/color]My hobby design blog: http://aviewondesign.blogspot.com/ Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 13Feb 22, 2010 3:32 pm It does make it more appealing and accessible, IMO. Also it would stand out more as it is generally less common. Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 14Mar 01, 2010 5:34 pm My unit is 20 years old. Whilst we have renovated the outside - new coloured concrete drive way, feature lighting, modern fence, modern garden etc it is still a 20 year old build! BUT - the inside has a brand new bathroom, new kitchen with stone (look-a-like) benches, stainless steel appliances etc, new tiling and plush pile carpets, rendered feature walls and the rooms are quite large for a 2 Bedroom unit - I need to show it off for a sale! I want to showcase the inside! Even though I think (and my agent) thinks that the place has a good amount of street appeal, it's what is in the inside that people have to live with every day - i think that's what will sell the house! (Keeping this in mind though - my agent will bring "serious" buyers through a week before we commence any advertising so we can see if we can sell before we pay the money for the photo board/advertising etc!) So... free advertising... anyone interested in buying a 2 bedroom unit in Melbourne's West, fully renovated, modern appliances, single lock up garage.... Sleven Moved into our Atlantique MkII 36 by Carlisle Homes Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 15Mar 20, 2010 8:21 pm Apart from any security aspect about your belongings, in real estate circles its considered mandatory for upmarket properties, ie $1M. I tried it once on a $200K house, totally useless. Lets face it, these days most people will have seen the pics on the net. they dont come cheap either. Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 16Mar 20, 2010 11:43 pm We had two picture boards and different times with different agents, but the agent who sold it did so before he even put up the generic sign, buys just saw it as a new listing on real estate . com. Unless I was in a high traffic area I would not bother with a picture sign again. Cheers Lou http://take2-customdesigndownslope.blogspot.com 07-10-09 omg they have cut the block 14-05-10 we finally have the keys Re: Pictorial sign - does it really help? 17Apr 19, 2010 1:39 pm I think a serious purchaser does exhaustive homework and will source all the info from the agents own site for all the pics, costing you nothing, high profile billboards and full colour spreads primarily provide increased market exposure for the agent. 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