{"id":1288,"date":"2020-05-29T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2020-04-07T14:55:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:55:14","slug":"buying-and-selling-in-the-temporary-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/buying-and-selling-in-the-temporary-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying and selling in the temporary normal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With all of this extended time spent homebound recently, many of us have discovered a new truism: if you have to be quarantined, you might as well do it in your dream home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No matter what &#8212; the season, the economy, even a virus &#8212; people will continue to buy and sell houses. It&#8217;s only the process that changes. And buyers and sellers who can adapt and pivot are the ones who come out ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunately, real estate professionals are already adept at strategies that could prove especially helpful this year, as COVID-19 dominates the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think: technology. Virtual tours will likely increase in popularity. Buyers were already screening houses online before seeing them in person, and a thorough virtual tour could dramatically increase the number of eyes on your property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 2018 report by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said that 46 percent of buyers found a virtual tour very useful, while 74 percent used the internet to search for homes. Among millennials, that figure leaped to 92 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some other accommodations this year could include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sellers may request more hand-washing. Another NAR survey, this one in March, found that more sellers were requesting that visitors wash their hands or use sanitizer. (Some may also request the use of booties, a commonplace request already.)<\/li><li>Open houses may limit the number of people inside a home at one time &#8211; which probably makes for a more pleasant walk-through anyway.<\/li><li>Technology can also aid in brokering a deal. Already, contracts are regularly sent via email and signatures can be gathered online. Expect more of this.<\/li><li>Those who attend open houses in the coming months are more serious buyers, as the tire-kickers have opted to stay at home.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all of this extended time spent homebound recently, many of us have discovered a new truism: if you have to be quarantined, you might as well do it in your dream home. No matter what &#8212; the season, the economy, even a virus &#8212; people will continue to buy and sell houses. It&#8217;s only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,42,32,33,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-general","category-health-and-wellness","category-safety"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}