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Sell Your Home Using Twitter

  • April 17th 2009

by Mark Wellborn

Sell Your Home Using Twitter: Figure 1
Brooklyn Condo

New York City real estate blog Curbed is reporting that a man selling his two-bedroom condo in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn is using Twitter, among other things, to get the word out that the place is on the market. So far, he hasn’t gotten any offers from the Twitter post, but he has garnered some interest.

From Curbed:

“TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld has been going the for-sale-by-owner route for his 2BR, 1.5BA condo at 46 Bergen Street (asking $979,000) in Cobble Hill, carrying out the usual Fizzbow plan of action of setting up a website and placing some ads. With an open house coming up on Sunday, he decided to hit Twitter, writing: “Let’s see if Twitter can help me sell my apartment. Anyone know someone looking for a primo 2-bedroom in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn?” People responded, he Twitpic’d a photo of the private outdoor space.”

Even though the condo remains on the market, the For Sale By Twitter story was picked up by media gossip blog Gawker certainly upping the level of attention the listing is getting. Despite the publicity, Schoenfeld is realistic enough to know that Twitter is not going to sell the condo on its own: He also has placed ads in The New York Times and Trulia.

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This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/sell_your_home_using_twitter/814.

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