How To Craft Email Newsletters in the Real Estate Industry

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Email marketing is a frequently used marketing tool in the real estate industry because of its efficiency with delivering messages to large audiences. If you want to generate buzz about your real estate brand and services, an email newsletter is a great tool to have in your digital marketing arsenal. Continue reading and discover a few best practices on how to craft email newsletters in the real estate industry.

Quality subject lines

First impressions always matter, especially when marketing your brand. Many real estate professionals fail to establish an excellent impression on their audiences when creating their subject lines. If your goal is to achieve high open rates, strong subject lines are crucial for capturing the attention of your potential readers. As a general rule of thumb, keep your subject lines relevant and concise. Since many readers may be reading your newsletter on a mobile device, crafting a short subject line ensures a higher chance of visibility for your email.

Include Your Contact Information

Ensure that you are accessible for your potential clients by providing a direct line of contact information on your email newsletters. This is a crucial step, as potential clients should always have multiple ways to get in touch with you. Your email signature should include your phone number and social networking information so your potential clients can easily reach you by phone and follow you online.

Invest time in formatting

In order for your newsletter to reflect positively on you as a professional in the industry, it is essential to format your newsletters so that they are polished and visually appealing. Explore creative options for incorporating your company colors, as well as interesting images to keep your readers engaged as they click into your newsletters.

Include a call-to-action

There should always be a clear intent behind every email that you send to a potential client. With this, be sure to include a call-to-action in every email to make the most of your leads. As you develop your newsletter content, be sure to reiterate your capabilities and contact information with a strong call-to-action.

HUD Foreclosures

HUD foreclosures and VA Foreclosures are some of the best homes to buy when price is part of the equation. As with most Americans, price is always a concern. If not buying the same house for less, why not buy more house for the same dollar invested? When looking for a good deal it is hard to do better than the VA or HUD foreclosures market. The simple truth is that there are just more VA and HUD homes on the market, as they represent such a large number of mortgages that are generated each year. This translates into more foreclosures just by the magnitude of difference between all others comparing to the two largest.

The two largest also being government owned and operated means that they have less time to wait to make money back on the home. The FHA is especially known for selling HUD homes for less than the average sales price in a given area. FHA foreclosures represent a fraction of HUD but they are still a significant number of homes and both should be considered.

VA (Veterans Administration) and HUD (Housing and Urban Development) have different and unique opportunities for the buyer. Both are often forgiven for the local taxes normally associated with the purchase of a home (this is on a county by county basis). Be sure to ask the local title company or escrow company to look into it for you before closing as this is often missed due to their are not used to dealing with the 2 to 3 percent of the market that VA and HUD foreclosures represent.

Foreclosure Listings Increasing

As the market settled after the mortgage meltdown foreclosure listings also settled and fewer homes were on the market with a placard reading “Bank Foreclosure” in big red lettering. This was a good thing for the entire real estate market. Having an abundance of foreclosures brings the entire market down and it makes it harder for home owners, who would like to move, to get the appropriate price for their home as a similar home down the same street was sold for substantially less and the appraiser is using the foreclosure as a comparable sale.

This is just one of the problems when there are too many foreclosure listings in any area. Another issue is the television set that sits in everyone’s living room harping about the price of homes based on the number of foreclosures and this constant barrage of negative information makes most people sit on the sidelines waiting for the market to either implode completely or to correct itself. Meanwhile while they wait, others are buying foreclosure listings and making great investments.

Whatever the reason, a market can only handle so many foreclosure listings at any given time. The more foreclosures, the lower the market gets and this is a lesson the banks that were foreclosing and selling off realized too late. The market and their investments would have been better off if there had not been a rush to divest themselves of the toxic assets made more toxic by their own actions.