August 11 2022
It's August, and that means "Back to School" time. A time for your clients to work on clothes, supplies, carpools and schedules for the coming year.
And time for you to take a refresher course on RPR School reports and data!
Schools play an important role in the home buying process. However, it's not just parents of school-aged children that benefit from good schools. Home values benefit, too.
Deciding to buy a home in a good school district can certainly help increase your clients' home value over time. And if the market shifts or "corrects" in the future, an outstanding school district could make all the difference during a changing market.
Let's take a look at RPR school data, how you can search for homes in specific school districts with RPR, and how you can create reports that will guide your buyers to better informed decisions.
RPR's school data is robust and extensive. It's provided by a collaboration with Niche, the industry's fastest-growing school data provider.
Niche specializes in connecting schools with students and families. It has in-depth profiles on every school and college in America, including over 140 million reviews and ratings. With RPR, you can access this data which includes teacher, academic, and overall school grades; as well as school district side-by-side comparisons. Specific metrics include:
When a buyer client wants to be in a specific school district, you can use RPR maps to search for properties near schools or within district boundaries.
REALTORS® can search for schools within 5 miles of a location; by city/state, school, or district name; and even by type of school (elementary, middle or high school).
Here's how:
The final step to helping your buyer clients in their school search is creating and delivering RPR School Reports. Much like our Property Reports, they contain tons of data in a sharp-looking layout that you can easily send to clients electronically or you can print them out and bind them for in person delivery.
An RPR School Report summarizes the data from your search, and provides options to compare schools within a district or a specified radius, and/or select up to 20 nearby listings to include in the report.
Schools play an important role in home searches, whether the buyers have children or not.
As a REALTOR®, you can tap into RPR data to search, compare and find the right schools in the right neighborhoods. Use these tools to find homes in or near coveted school districts, which helps kids get a solid education, and certainly doesn't hurt home values.
To view the original article, visit the RPR blog.