Real Estate Teamwork – How Your Realtor Accomplishes Your Goals

You may not realize it, but helping you find a great home is often a joint venture between your Realtor and a number of other professionals. In fact, it is through your Realtor’s willingness to work with other professionals that you can more quickly find a great place to live at a price you can [...]

Real Estate: Buyer’s Agent, Seller’s Agent & Dual Agent (defined and explained)

There is a relatively new and not always well understood practice in Real Estate sales; it is called Buyer Agency or Buyer’s Agent. Until recently Realtors and agents usually represented the seller, in opposition to the buyer, during the real estate transaction. Even the real estate agent who drove you from home to home was [...]

Real Estate – Buyer’s Market – Seller’s Nightmare?

Well, depending on the area you live, you’re most likely experiencing a real estate buyer’s market. We commonly utilize this term when certain things happen in the real estate and financial world. When interest rates rise, speculative buying slows, investors start selling and people in general start cashing in on the equity they have built [...]

Choosing the Right Real Estate Agent

Not all real estate agents, Realtors and brokers are alike. It’s wise to shop around and find the real estate team that’s right for you. First stop to think about the qualities that you need in a real estate agent to effectively sell your home. Your list may read like this:Listens to my needs. You [...]

There is an Old Saying in Real Estate That 90% of the Real Estate is Sold by 10% of the Brokers

This is not far fetched. There truly is an entirely separate class of Real Estate Professional out in the marketplace. The full time professional verses the part time pretenders. The ten percent minority consists of realty professionals that are most often full time, Type A, workaholics that are both social and very personal creatures.The reality [...]