Why you should consider online house selling websites over the traditional way of selling?
by Jack Dolson AuthorThe traditional way of selling has
been followed even by the most property portals prevalent in India. This mode
of selling involves giving people an insight into dreams! The traditional sales
process involves wooing a customer by showing him/her the product that is a
dream-come-true. Take any advertisement (print or otherwise) for example. The
advertisers in all the cases show the positives of a product and how it would
transform a buyer’s life. Everything is presented as reliable, beautiful and
robust. However the buyer only comes to know about the actual features of the
product or service after the sale.
The same is the case with selling property in India. Housing.com
emerged as a solution to ambiguous and misleading sales process adopted by
property portals available two-three years ago. The founders of the portal
tried to search
for properties online but could not find any one reliable enough to consider
purchase/rental.
Even today, when one seeks property
related information on the portals in India, there is nothing available to help
end users make a decision to buy sell
property. The information
almost invariably is either too rosy or too ambiguous or both.
What Sets Housing.com apart?
The idea to create housing.com came
to the minds of its founders when they could not find any reliable property
online. Everywhere, the traditional method of sales was involved where a
product was pushed in the market and the end users did not have ample information
to make the purchase decision.
The founders of the property
therefore decided that they would create a portal that would provide verified
and comprehensive information to the end users when they would use it to buy sell property. To meet this end,
the makers of housing.com did not resort to traditional marketing approach.
They banked on data analytics, technology and mathematics to solve the issues
of the end users.
For example it was realized (after
analyzing a considerable amount of data) that the end users do not merely look
into a property when deciding on the purchase. They also like to learn about
the locality and the available amenities in the area. Therefore, to enable the
end users search for properties better, housing.com introduced a map based
search result. The property could be seen in the map of the locality and this
bird’s eye view turned out to be the second best thing to actually visiting it.
The makers went a step further and
had their representatives visit every single property to verify it. These
agents do not merely interview the property owner regarding his/her demands but
also take photographs which are then uploaded on the portal.
The use of Data Analytics and Mathematics
In addition to verification, the
portal has used data analytics constantly to identify service gaps and demand
trends. There are helpful scores like Lifestyle Index and features like
property evaluation which are completely based on mathematical formula. These
features provide additional information which is free from human inclinations.
The whole operations and services of
housing.com are analyzed mathematically and innovations hence are abundant.
Technology and operations of the portal are driven in accordance with the needs
of end users.
In conclusion
Housing.com
creates a pull demand in the property market. The portal
uses analytics to assess consumer demands and provide its services accordingly.
As a result, it is an aberration from the traditional form of sales.
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