People say it’s all negative talk, but it’s reality. House prices are too high, first time buyers are out of the market, the plug is conituining to be pulled from the housing market.

It is quite clear what is happening in the housing market. Prices nearly trebled from 1997-2007; there is a correction taking place and the bottom will not be reached for some time yet.

If news reports filter to the media that there are ‘grass shots’ then these will inevitably come from those with vested interest in property and property gaining in value. As a buyer I would recommend that you wait at least another 6 months before you buy and even then you will still see a drop in house prices for another year or so. We have yet to see the market bottom out and remain flat, then will be the best time to buy.

Prices were allowed to spiral upwards at too faster rate on the back of nothing, but a ‘feel good factor’ under the Labour government. People were spending credit as opposed to their earnings. Each year increasing their mortgages to accommodate their new upgrades on cars, multiple annual family holidays and plasma televisions in every room. These kind of people added to the national debt and now find themselves in negative equity (rightly so?) and are now starting to loose their treasured possessions (which they never really owned or worked for?) and the worst case scenario is many situations, repossession of their property.

Yes, many people will feel sorry for the ones losing their homes, but just how many of these people are actually in this situation for genuine reasons? How many of them simply spent, spent, spent with absolutely no regard for future finacial situations?

People tag them as vultures, but these people that are now buying up cheap property from auctions and taking advantage of giveaway prices of cars etc because other people are trying to stay afloat should be looked up to and thanked for having been safer with their spending. Families that studied their monthly bills, never were tempted to take advantage of their limitless credit spending, that may even have rented foreseeing this property price crash, are the ones that will profit.

I think that over the next 2-3 years house prices will adjust to or maybe even below the inflation band. At present it will be those with cash that are king and those that borrowed too much that will be poor. This unfortunately is a cycle that has occured many times before and it’s a cycle that will continue in years to come.

These figures are released at more or less the same time as the RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) stated that house sales were at their lowest levels between December and February this year, that’s a new 31 year low.

“Around two-thirds of the homes will be built by housing associations, as private builders suspend developments until the market picks up”, NHF states.

This further cements the worsening Property Market in the UK and a very bleak outlook for 2009 and beyond. With self builders, house building companies and first time buyers all out of the picture it points towards increased property price falls. First time buyers are finding it near an impossibility purchasing as Bank’s lendings have become more difficult to obtain.

The average property price figures due soon also will no doubt show a downturn as the recession starts to take grip.

If you have a Facebook account, have you found out about how you can network with like minded people involved in real estate across the world?

I suggest that it would be to your benefit as a seller or a buyer to investigate networking on Facebook and how it can help you promote your property or indeed find your property.

Facebook is a massive beehive of networking opportunity that are all searchable and all free to use and join. If you simply type in Real Estate Networking within the search field you will see countless groups dedciated to the subject with many likeminded members. You will see many large groups, including my own http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=703772707&gv=12#/group.php?gid=47121836008 where you can share your thoughts and ideas and even market your property.

So, visit Facebook as soon as you can and find out new ways to network with others in the real estate world and start making new contacts today.

The networking world has arrived on the internet, especially with names such as Facebook and Twitter gaining immense pace and content. These kind of websites are generally all free to register with and market yourself and your property. You can set up dedicated pages with videos or photos to aid in marketing you property or indeed properties. You can network with like minded sellers and may even find buyers that are suited to your property.

There are also many hundred ‘Free to Use’ property marketing websites, especially ones now frequently appearing stating worldwide property free marketing. These are ideal to increase you exposure. I do advice though to search deeper into this section and expand your marketing procedures to include videos with the availability of free video uploading websites such as YouTube and OneStopView.

No one likes spamming on the internet, but you could also research groups/forums that may be real estate themed concentrating on your location. These places can also be ideal to let everyone know about your property.

Don’t forget auction websites such as Ebay, where a cheap listing can get you immense interest in your property. What about a dedicated website or webpage for your property, there are many ways to have a dedicated page such as MySpace.

It’s really a case of blitzing your property all over the internet, but trying to be very particular and avoid spamming as people will turn their noses up or suspect that there maybe problems.

These are all terms that we may be familiar with, but it is only of recent have they been attached to property. I was honestly more attracted to property using these terms than by those simply detailing the property description etc.

Are you seeking a property to buy and do you also look out for these phrases by example using them in search engines such as Google? Do you market your property using these terms or do you feel that they may drag down the perception of the property in question?

There is no doubt that people out there are always looking for a bargain, so really, these terms are ideal to attract buyers, are they not?

If you think about it, it is quite a simple task as nearly every home out there would contain some kind of applaince that records movies such as mobile phones, digital cameras and ofcourse camcorders. These are ok to make a home movie style video presentation of your property, but what about obtaining a real high standard marketing video such as the ones Real Estate agents are using more and more increasingly these days? Do you take into account editing, panning round, zooming in and out and even stablisation? Have you the software to render a movie file? Can you convert your movie file to a required format (OneStopView.com allows practically all movie formats) ?

That’s why we are pleased to offer the services of HDHat.com whom offer Real Estate agents the chance to film their property portfolio to the highest standards. We ask that all our visitors to OneStopView.com who require further information of filming and tools inwhich to film with, to click the frontpage banner of HDHat.

HDhat Real Estate Video Tours are a simple and inexpensive way for real estate agents to quickly produce high quality real estate videos for their property listings.

The agent simply films video clips of their listing and uploads the “un-edited” clips to HDhat.  HDhat then edits, distributes and hosts the agents finished real estate video tours.

Both are new still very much untouched when it comes to using them for marketing purposes. For those that have discovered them, they are finding a wealth of free marketing opportunities to promote their business and property portfolios. Quite simply, these networking platforms allow you to market to a worldwide audience your real estate business by way of groups, blogs, pictures and even videos. For anybody willing to invest time and effort onto Facebook or Twitter you are able to build up a number of freinds/followers all ofwhich you can market to free of charge. You can also build dedicated groups such as the following: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47121836008&ref=mf

These Groups allow you again to have members all interested in the groups theme and allow you as the creator/administration person to inform everybody of latest news and developements relating to your field of the industry.

Real Estate on the internet has new doors opening daily to help combat the worsening economical climate effecting nearly all countries.

Facebook and Twitter are both free networking websites to join, they do though require of you to abide by certain guidelines. As per any or most free to use/networking websites, common sense will tell you what is and what is not permitted.

Auction websites such as Ebay are seeing more and more ’sell my house by raffle’ listings. If you think of it, your chances of winning the lottery each week is practically zero, ie 1 in 13,983,816!!! Now if you buy a raffle ticket to a house a house say at £15, 15 times a lottery ticket price and the value of the house is say £150,000 your chances of winning are immensley reduced to 1 in 15,000. so to sum up the chances of winning a lottery that could change your life:

Lottery ticket priced at £1 gives you 1 in 13,983,816 of winning the jackpot.

House sale lottery ticket valued at £150,000 at £15 ticket price gives you 1 in 15,000 of winning the jackpot.

For me, buying lottery tickets to potentially win a house is sound common sense and serves you a better chance of changing your life than a lottery ticket.