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Are you leveraging technology to fast track your house hunting?

Written by David Batchelor on January 17, 2012.

Before the Internet and smartphones came into being, all we had to assist us in house hunting was newspapers, estate agents and word-of-mouth. But now that we have all these wonders of technology, what’s our excuse to insist on pen and paper as best tools for house-hunting?

According to the new survey by real estate portal realestateVIEW.com.au nearly 50% of house hunters still use pen and paper to organize and manage their house-hunting process, and 10% admitted they look at newspapers, walk around suburbs and rely on real estate agents’ help.

Over 2000 people were asked nation-wide to participate in the survey, and the results look quite shocking to me. I seriously doubt that 50% of respondents weren’t busy and therefore could afford to waste time on inefficient house-hunting. The r

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