Marketing with property videos is a lot more easier than you think and certainly very economical. Simply film the property you wish to sell or rent and upload the video to your computer where it will then be ready to upload to a host of video websites such as YouTube, AOL Videos and OneStopView. These sites are all free to use and really should be your first port of call before you investigate padi for websites whom would rarely get the same amount of traffic.

A property video could cost you less that 2 hours of your own time and could save you thousands in marketing costs. For more professional videos choose a local videographer who will film and edit a managable sized movie for you and even help with uploading.

Another dagger (hopefully) into the high priced property market is that average interest rates are on the increase (And will continue to increase) despite the BoE reducing the base rate down to 0.5% over recent months. In January 2007 with the base rate at 5% the mortgage rate was 6.20% and now despite the base rathe shrinking to 0.5% the mortgage rate has rised to 6.23% !!! The main reason for these high rates is because the people in the know (apparently) are well aware of the current house price market and feel prices have some way to fall yet.

I am seeing increasing cases of Swine Flu globally including a rising number of cases in th UK. Will this lead to further down falls in the economy should the out break worsen? If everyday fears aren’t enough, the public are cautious to walk their very own streets breathing the free outside air without the concern of catching a life threatening disease.

In the UK the is no doubt a weakening confidence in the property market and despite those trying to claw on to varied notions that there are grass shots appearing, then general slide is down for average property prices. Will the added effect of a worsening virus entitled ‘Swine Flu’ add to the nations misery and lack of confidence?

Watch this space should the outbreak of Swine Flu worsen globally, there will be effect on worldwide markets and property prices….

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.

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.