Why Instagram is an essential house-hunting tool

Brokers increasingly use the app to promote listings

From Luxury Listings NYC: When Sanchali Roy and her husband listed their home with a group of three brokers — one of whom was Fredrik Eklund of “Million Dollar Listing New York” — she didn’t think that it would sell from an Instagram photo uploaded by the Bravo star.

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“We were all kind of shocked,” she said of the deal, which went into contract just one week after listing the one-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom 325 Fifth Avenue spread for $1.475 million in October. The sale — totaling $1.375 million — closed the following month. [more]