1.媒体来源:
CNN
2.完整新闻标题:
Download app, upload photo, sell house
只要下载APP,上传照片,就能够简单卖房了。
3.完整新闻内文:
Buying a home used to mean hiring a licensed real estate agent and visiting
place after place, until you found the one you liked. These days, thanks to
the Internet, buyers can browse real estate listings whenever and wherever
they want. But even with technology, red tape and hidden costs abound.
以前,要买房子的时候,我们都是先找不动产专员,让他带我们到处看房。
直到找到喜欢的家。而现在网络四通八达,我们可以在网络上直接浏览
所有我们想看的房子。
Now, internet-based realtor Square Feet has a service that could help home
vendors to save money.
Square Feet 公司打算要帮大家省钱。
List your home with a traditional agent in the United States and you pay a 6%
commission. Do it yourself with Square Feet on your smart phone and you'll
pay only 1%. On a $500,000 home, that's a $25,000 saving.
如果你用传统卖房子的方式:请不动产专员,你得要付 6% 的佣金。
但是如果你使用 Square Feet 来卖屋,只抽你 1% 。
"We have streamlined the process substantially," says James Simpson, Square
Feet's co-founder and CEO.
Square Feet 创办人兼CEO表示:“我们把过程变简单了”。
"You as the seller would download the app and it's a very simple process. We
start the process having you take pictures of your home, and once you're
finished it takes five or six minutes to create a listing.
你只需要下载APP,然后把你家的照片放上去,六分钟以内就完成。
"It's just going to be cleaner, simpler and faster."
这样子清楚简单明了,而且非常快速。
Simpson, a former full service broker himself, remembers the moment he
started thinking about the online model.
"I was in a listing appointment with a very successful guy who had a very
valuable property