Homes For Sale on YouTube

Posted on March 15, 2007

An article on CNN/Money talks about the "YouTubing" of real estate and how homeowners are using videos to help sell their homes. Some of the videos are more elaborate than others.

harlie Young, vice president for marketing for broker Coldwell Banker, tells CNN, "I believe streaming videos on Web sites is the wave of the future."

The article appears to be correct in identifying a growing use of video in selling homes. There are thousands of home videos already on YouTube.

If you search house for sale on YouTube you get over 3,000 listings. A Home for sale search gives over 4,000 videos. It is a good way to showcase a house and with the growing housing bubble people probably need any advantage they can get. Some of the videos are placed by individual owners and other are placed by realty companies. For example, the HFRealty channel currently has videos for nine homes.