{"id":193,"date":"2015-03-05T18:01:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T18:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/property-searches-on-google-rise-253-in-four-years\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T12:24:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T12:24:35","slug":"property-searches-on-google-rise-253-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/property-searches-on-google-rise-253-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Property searches on Google rise 253% in four years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Google <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/property\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/property;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.05wrt;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Property\" >property<\/a> searches are up!. New figures from the US have revealed that it has never been more important to sell your property online. There has been a huge increase in the number of property related searches on the world\u2019s biggest search engine, Google, showing that more and more people are heading onto the web to find their new <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Housing estate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/housing-estate\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/housing_estate;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.01rtvp;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Housing_estate\" >home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A leading expert has urged people to <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Use (law)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/use-law\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/use_law;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.05r4j5;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Use_(law)\" >use<\/a> so-called \u2018for <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"FSBO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/for-sale-by-owner\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/for_sale_by_owner;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.06vvjy;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/For_sale_by_owner\" >sale by owner<\/a>\u2019 sites to maximise the number of potential buyers while keeping the costs of sale down, as we see next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">More and more people searching for their new home online<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A joint study by Google and the <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realtor.org\/\" target=\"\">US National Association of Realtors <\/a>(NAR) has found that property related searches on Google have grown 253 per cent over the past four years. Google\u2019s head of <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/real-estate\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/real_estate;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.023907r;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Real_estate\" >real estate<\/a> Patrick Grandinetti says that nine in ten <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"homes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/home\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/home;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.01l0mw;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Home\" >home<\/a> buyers are now searching online during the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"houses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/house\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/house;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.03jm5;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/House\" >house<\/a> buying process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cFor sale by owner websites let you list your home online \u2013 and appear in property searches \u2013 for the fraction of the fee you would pay to an <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/estate-agent\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/estate_agent;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.02dzpr;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Estate_agent\" >estate agent<\/a>. With more and more people searching for properties online, it\u2019s a great way for vendors to <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Market (economics)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/market-economics\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/market_economics;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Market_(economics)\" >market<\/a> their homes to buyers at home and overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Google and NAR analysis also found that house buyers used specific online tools at different points during their home search process. Potential buyers tend to rely on search engines and general websites when they begin their search before using maps more in the middle of the process and engaging mobile applications towards the end of their search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google property searches are up!. New figures from the US have revealed that it has never been more important to sell your property online. 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