Our Historic Homes Marketing Group is a marketing solutions provider for historic real estate sales. Our team of marketing experts offer the following specialized services:Websites
- HistoricHomeTeam.net
Consistently, the highest ranking Historic home website on the internet. Ranking in the top 10 websites out of millions.
- HistoricHomeTeam.com
Gary Gestson is a nationally recognized Realtor specializing in historic home sales.
- HistoricHomeNetwork.com
Our National Historic Homes Marketing website featuring historic homes for sale by our team of Historic Home Marketing Specialist around the USA.
- HistoricHomeAuction.com
An innovative home auction solution that reduces a historic home’s days on the market from many months to several weeks. Designed for historic home owners and their Realtors nationwide, and utilizes our strong #1 search engine optimization.
- HistoricEstatesInternational.com
Marketing solution for unique historic estates around the world.
- FineHistoricEstates.net
Offers significant historic estates a venue of unlimited images, history, attachment documents, videos, virtual tours and more – all in an easy to navigate format.
- HistoricHomesNetwork.com
A network of historic home specialists and their unique properties.
- HistoricDeals.net
Motivated sellers of historic homes looking for an offer.
Credentials – Our marketing team includes one of the top historic properties marketing specialists in America (per National Association of Realtors 2009), professional staging experts, and highly skilled marketing professionals trained to showcase the virtues and benefits of a historic home in this unique marketplace.
Feature Articles - We send out a press release to the local and national media informing the editors that a significant historic home buying opportunity is now on the market. As a result, we get results with features in the Gazette, the Washington Times, The Examiner (500K readers), The Washington Post, Country Living Magazine, The Week, and others (following is a selection):
Visit our Press Room.
Sphere Marketing – We have an extensive historic home referral network of interested buyers, sellers, and real estate agents. That is a powerful tool in the promotion of our listed properties.
Professional Brochure - Our listings benefit from a professional, full color brochure, that includes images, property features & details, significant history, map, and web address for additional information.
Social Media -
Internet Experts
We have spent many years optimizing our internet presence and working our way up in the search engine rankings. We are consistently displayed as one of the top 10 websites out of millions of search results for all the major search engines. We own over 150 historic web addresses on the internet and they all point to our websites. They include: www.HistoricHomeTeam.com, www.historichomespa.com, www.historichhomesforsalemd.com, www.historichomesforsalepa.com, www.historichomesforsaleva.com, www.historichomesforsalemaryland.com, www.historichomesmd.com, www.historichomespecialist.com, www.historichomesrealtor.com, www.historicpartners.com, www.historicestates.us, www.historicmansions.net, and 100+ more…
Up to 95% of all home buyers go to the internet to seach for homes. We are experts at marketing the internet.
- www.HistoricHomeTeam.net – We have a highly rated website that offers historic property searches, virtual tours, video tours, a popular web log (BLOG), photos, links to historic details and registrations, historic restoration tips, maps & directions, and more… nearly 2,000 website visitors per week.
- www.HistoricHomeTeam.com/blog – Our popular web log that discusses all things historic homes
- Virtual Tours with 50 professional photos and panoramas – in addition, reports detailing the number of viewings and on what website the tour was viewed.
- Video Tours - A 5-10 minute video tour of the property. This allows a prospective buyer a richer visual experience of walking through the entire property. Each property listing has its own high-tech video viewer.
- Realtor.com Enhanced Membership - This allows us to showcase our property listings with 25 photos, virtual tours, video tours, additional information, website links, and premium placement on the most popular real estate search engine on the internet. We can also produce reports showing how many people have viewed a listing, which is crucial in evaluating our marketing of a listing (MD, VA, DC, & PA only).
- Internet Search Engines - High ranking with internet search engines is critical to effective marketing - Our websites are consistently the highest ranked on the internet for historic home searches. Search these top engines to see real time how we rank today. Comprehensive Searches.
YAHOO - historic homes for sale
YAHOO - historic estates for sale
YAHOO - historic estates
BING - historic homes for sale
BING - historic estates for sale
BING - historic estates
GOOGLE - historic estates for sale
GOOGLE - historic estates
Some of our website names in search engines: historichometeam.com, historichomespa.com, historichometeam.net, gestson.com, historichometeam.com/blog
- Other Top Search Engines - Our Historic Home Team website is consistently a top 10 search result for www.askjeeves.com, www.aol.com, www.altavista.com, www.alltheweb.com.
- Other Internet venues include Realtor.com, Zillow, Craigslist, Trulia, Oodle, Backpage, Local.com, Lycos, Propsmart, Edgio, Vast, and many others.
- National Historic Trust – Preservation Magazine Online
Christie’s Great Estates is the largest international network of independent real estate brokers dedicated to the marketing and sale of important properties ($1M+). Because Long & Foster is an exclusive affiliate in its marketing area, our Historic Home Team can provide enormous and far-reaching exposure to a qualified audience of homebuyers that no other real estate company in our area can offer. (Long & Foster listings only)
International Outreach - Includes direct marketing to 180 Embassies and Consulates in the DC area.
Real Estate Brokers - Invitations sent to up to 6,000 top agents in the property region to view a new listing and attend significant events. We offer our L&F brokered listings to the 55,000 DC area real estate agents through the mulitple listing services.
Team of Experts - We have a team of professionals who are experts in their fields and understand the unique nature of historic homes:
- Historic Home Inspectors
- Loan Officers
- Settlement Companies
- Staging – Natalie Gestson, our professional staging director, evaluates a property for improvements that can enhance its appeal to a buyer.
- Appraisers – Because of the unique and difficult nature of a historic home appraisal, appraisers often contact Gary Gestson, as an expert in the field, for assistance with an appraisal.
- Trained Historic Craftsmen
This is a significant advantage to our L&F brokered listing clients, because rarely is a historic home sold to someone in the same community, buyers will normally be moving into the community from some distance. We can notify over 55,000 Realtors that there is a great historic home buying opportunity for their clients.
National Database – We maintain a database of 1,000+ historic home buyers who are looking for properties in the Washington/Philadelphia areas.
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