New West Realtor launches Royal City trolley tour
A San Francisco-style trolley will be traversing the Royal City to help house hunters get a look as some of the local properties for sale.
Derrick Thornhill, a Realtor with Park Georgia Realty in New West, is offering a two-hour trolley tour of some of the properties for sale in the city every Sunday in April.
“I am travelling the entire city. My route will circumnavigate the city,” he told the Record. “I have a set route that we will do every week, and then we will go off that route to the listings that are available. I will try and touch on every neighbourhood in the city.”
Thornhill has been pondering the idea for a few years and decided the time was right to launch a trolley tour because it’s a “super competitive” real estate market.
“Buyers on board the trolley are going to gain some really useful knowledge about the city of New West,” he said. “They are going to be learning about property values, neighbourhoods, local businesses, city infrastructure, recreation, where the schools are – things you would need to know if you didn’t know the city and were thinking ‘I am going to move my family here.’”
Each week, the tour will make stops at four or five single-family homes and allow tour goers to go inside the homes. Attendees will receive a list of the homes on Sunday’s tour on Thursday and will board the trolley at Thornhill’s office at 648 Sixth St. and depart at 2 p.m.
“It will be a fun and unique environment. There is some really great brass tacks information that people on the trolley are going to learn, not only about the city but about values and comparable properties,” Thornhill said. “I am showing the best available listings in the city. I am going to try and do price ranges so it’s applicable to more people, but it’s not just for my clients, it’s for everyone’s clients.”
Thornhill’s drone may be spotted along the way, as it will be getting footage of the trolley tour – another component of his new marketing plan.
