Keep Updated With Local Real Estate Market Statistics With RSS Feeds
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication – and is a great way to keep updated on things which are important to you – whether it is the weather, local news or even local real estate market data, straight into your newsreader! Think of it as the pipeline that carries our content to your desktop for consumption.
In order to make best use of an RSS feed (such as this blog!), you will need a newsreader (or aggregator) to actually view our articles. There are many to choose from and the process is relatively simple to follow. Newsreader software is typically free and often found within the products that you are already using. For example, Yahoo, Google, Firefox, Internet Explorer all offer newsreader functionality.
The Common Craft Show offers an excellent educational video called, “RSS in Plain English” - it’s only a few minutes and worth watching if you’re new to RSS!
For our blog this is a great chance for us to keep you informed about what is going on in the world of Local Real Estate statistics and a chance for agents and brokers and local associations who have a blog, perhaps they could use an RSS feed to publish their Clarus MarketMetrics data reports so their customers can keep updated? Subscription is invaluable to a any blog and can help drive sales by allowing you to keep clients informed – so using your Clarus MarketMetrics reports along with RSS subscription could be a powerful way to educate clients. As we have mentioned before, Realtor’s who keep up with the latest technology, use their local knowledge and all of their tools to adapt tp a changing market are the ones who survive.
Subscribe to our blog using our RSS feed. (Click here!)
By utilizing Clarus MarketMetrics® user can run reports on the median home prices and many other report options pulled directly from local MLS data, results can then be sorted and distributed to clients and/or posted online. Clarus MarketMetrics® allows users to target to a specific zip code for their report and in some cases a map code or even a school district.
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