Wanda: Absolutely. I have sold homes as a result of boosting the listing and have generated both new buyers and sellers from niche article boosts. Make sure your boosts are targeted to specific demographics in your area. 

Yes but only a dollar. You should join and read Anita Clark Face Book Friday posts. Anita has helped me so much and is generous with her knowledge.

I have results for little money with this Wanda Kubat-Nerdin 

Have sold listings as a direct result of a boosted ad

I know Anita Clark  and Nestor & Katerina Gasset (katerina) would have an answers to this question....

I have gotten many more likes to my business page, a lot of shares, and more traffic to open houses, but can't say any direct business

I have boosted my open house posts and it does tend to get more traffic to the open house.

Anita Clark is the go-to person on this topic.

I think that if you don't target it right, you've wasted your time. It's a skill just like any other ad.

Follow the advice of Anita Clark. 

I have boosted my open house post & yes, people do notice.  

Yes, it works very well.  Anita Clark  knows how to do for maximum effectiveness. You can get buyers and sellers and you can sell your listings much faster and drive traffic to your open houses. 

I am not on facebook

I haven't tried it but I know I have read some success stories here.  

I've gotten many more views.  Significantly increased traffic to my website.  Zero business and zero people into an open house.

It gets lots of additional exposure.  But, I'm not sure how many if any actual leads you will get.

That's never even occurred to me!

Good question..it works for Anita Clark and others..so far haven't needed the extra boost..my open houses are swamped!

We tried it many Moons ago with zero success even when directed to specific goups of people.

One can only market to a larger audience for a great price.

Depends on how you measure success.

We boosted posts and have increased the post's visibility and the "likes" on our page very dramatically. But no business can be directly linked to boosting a post yet.

Our son is a local landscaper and he's had tons of business from boosting posts, however. Could be that real estate isn't the right match for FB, or it could be that real estate's brew time is longer.

To me, this comes under the anything is possible rule. When money is involved, it slows the rule down a bit

Nope - I gave up on FB a long time ago

I'm here to read the answers others are providing. Not disappointed!

parked and reading...

no

Yes for OPEN Houses

Haven't done that as listings seem to sell quickly without.

Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - I use Facebook Ads - not used  the 'boost' feature yet. Checking other answers...

I did not hire third parties yet. But I just received a very tempting offer to post regularly on my social medias for a very reasonable price. 

I don't waste my time on paying an advertising fee.

That sounds interesting.

I have not tried it but it sounds like a money grab to me.

I have not ever boosted a post, but I will park and read other answers.

I've heard some people who didn't seem too happy with it

Great question. I haven't done this and I was just thinking about this the other day. I'm parked and reading. 

I have never used this feature.

I've never paid to boost a post on Facebook.  I am not a fan of Facebook or paying for marketing efforts on third party sites.