A picture is worth a thousand words

May 12, 2008

… and charts may be more helpful than spreadsheets.

I’m pretty tech savvy but when I need really “geeky” help, I turn to my favorite geek, my friend Jay Thompson, The Phoenix Real Estate Guy, who by the way, is very proud to be geeky.

I was wondering how to post more graphics on my website and blog like I had seen on Jay’s and others that I noticed on the Internet. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. And in a second, he said, SnagIt.

What you can do is capture, edit and share anything you see on your computer screen. So for those of you who would rather have a visual understanding of market trends rather than just the numbers of an excel spreadsheet, SnagIt allows you to capture a chart created from the data and easily post it to your blog.

Here is an example of average vs median prices for the past 12 months in the Charleston real estate market (red is average, blue is median).

Charleston real estate median and average sales prices last 12 months