{"id":115,"date":"2007-02-17T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/115\/comfree-aggressively-seeking-share-of-real-estate-market-in-vancouver\/"},"modified":"2007-02-18T08:16:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T16:16:21","slug":"comfree-aggressively-seeking-share-of-real-estate-market-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/115\/comfree-aggressively-seeking-share-of-real-estate-market-in-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"ComFree Aggressively Seeking Share Of Real Estate Market In Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 2 weeks ago, someone mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comfree.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ComFree<\/a> to me.  I felt obliged to evaluate their website and found nothing that significantly differentiates them from all the other FSBO sites out there.  They offer website listings, publish a magazine of their listings every 3 weeks, and provide marketing packages for homeowners that include brochures and signage.  But about a week ago, I saw my first ComFree television commercial.  During the past week I noticed billboard advertising across the city and heard multiple radio ads as well.  ComFree is obviously well-funded to market in such a traditional and cost-ineffective way, but it may be the tipping point that differentiates them from all the other companies that offer similar services.<\/p>\n<p>A good realtor is well worth the commissions that they earn.  They carry a large overhead and spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars marketing listings.  There is no guarantee of any compensation for an agent if a home does not sell.  But still there exists a public perception that many real estate agents are overpaid for the service they provide.  Perhaps it is too easy to become a realtor. Definitely, not all agents fall into that &#8220;good&#8221; category either, but that can be said of any profession.<\/p>\n<p>Will Comfree acquire a significant portion of the Real Estate Market here in Vancouver?  They currently have 9 listings on their website.  They have a long way to go.  But they claim to have one third of the market in Edmonton and a 15% share in Winnipeg.  I will wait and see how events play themselves out, but for anyone connected to the real estate industry here in Vancouver, it is worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 2 weeks ago, someone mentioned ComFree to me. I felt obliged to evaluate their website and found nothing that significantly differentiates them from all the other FSBO sites out there. They offer website listings, publish a magazine of their listings every 3 weeks, and provide marketing packages for homeowners that include brochures and signage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}