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Ask HN: Real estate market and selling your house

3 points by dome82 ↗ HN
Hi,

asking for help/feedback/advices from HN community.

I am trying to sell my house in South Italy and I wanted to try an alternative way than just going through a real estate agency.

Every real estate site that I've found online did not have great web presentations of each house and I've thought that it could be nice to create a good landing page for my house. I set up an website describing about the house, the neighbor and what it offers. There are photos and maybe a video in the near future.

Is this a good way to market your own house? How could I get good visibility for my house? Google Adwords? Facebook ads?

It is the first time that I needed to sell my house and I am just experimenting how to market it.

Any advices? Feedback is really appreciate it! :)

Here, you can find the site that I am creating (in multiple languages): http://thevilla.estatedock.com/

4 comments

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dome82
Not really sure if I had to put ASK HN or SHOW HN :P
mercnet
Agreed, this sounds like a great opportunity to capture people that want to sell privately.
sharemywin
Not sure in italy but your going to probably pay a buyers agent some %. But, I could see spending some money on an ad directly in google with: {your city} homes for sale, etc. assmuing you have a good way to price your home, you have a good sales contract that protects you, have all the buyer disclosures you need, etc.

Adwords Costs: probably about $80-$120 a lead.

dome82
It is common to pay an agent in Italy. My brother is contacting them but I wanted to see if I could some good leads online.

About the price, it is more or less what an agency told us sometime ago. I guess that I could try some A/B testing on the price.