In markets where there are numerous homes and properties for sale, there are often ‘open houses’ where prospective buyers and clients would come in and check out home and property units. The practice has been one of the most usual and proven effective tactics and measures to further convince and entice buyers to transact purchase activities.
For sure you have gone to an open house. You surely have seen and checked out the interiors and exteriors of units that are currently available in the market. You could also have been enticed to buy or at least almost buy. Thus, you can be a living testimony that indeed, open houses are instrumental in making real estate and home building firms’ revenues and income concrete.
But did you know that there are studies and polls that prove otherwise? In the United States alone, a 2004 research conducted by industry body National Association of Realtors indicate that about 87% of home and property buyers really find open houses highly useful in their endeavors to search appropriate houses. However, the study has also found out that a good number of people going to such open houses are not very serious about the prospects from the activity.
Out of purpose
This brings about a new and modern perception and issue about open houses and home hunting. Some analysts and experts explain that some people are not really observing the usefulness of open houses simply because those people are in the first place not intending to buy prior to going to open houses. However enticing and convincing an open house is, if the prospective buyer does not intend to make the purchase due to lack of budget or other factors, nothing can come out of the activity.
In fact, many goers to open house activities these days openly admit that they only go to kill time or entertain themselves in a usually idle Sunday afternoon. Some people only go to check out the latest in designs, while others simply want to peek at how the neighborhoods’ kitchens look like. Still, many go with groups just to find exciting places to chit chat and have gossips.
Still effective
Real estate and home players reiterate that whatever the purpose of goers is, open houses are still serving their purpose. Sales figures and expressions of interest are already enough to prove that indeed, the market is still persuaded and eluded by modern and display units at open houses.
That is why many villages, condominiums and other home and real estate centers are still offering and conducting open house activities. As a marketing activity and tool, such sales activities undoubtedly are still among the most effective and most reliable. An open house is still a good way to break a ground and pave the ground to entering the interests and attention of the ever-demanding and discerning market.
