There was a median of only 15 miles between the hoes that recent buyers purchased and the homes that they moved from.
(NAR 2018 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers)
There was a median of only 15 miles between the hoes that recent buyers purchased and the homes that they moved from.
(NAR 2018 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers)
Buyers typically searched for 10 weeks and looked at a median of 10 homes before making a decision.
(2018 Profile of Home Buyers and Seller)
Click this link for a copy of the press release from the North West Multiple Listing service for Most of Washington State: King County, Kitsap County, Pierce County…….
What does it mean to be a good communicator?
While being a good communicator with clients is something that many claim to be, it is sad how often that poor communications can sour a transaction. Even when you are doing all the actions that you need to be doing to help the transaction move forward, if you leave out your client or other brokers it is as if you are doing nothing.
So….what is a “Good Communicator?â€
Selling brokers in today’s market are working 5 times harder than listing brokers. Each buyer they are working with has fewer homes to choose from and if they do find a home that they would like to make an offer on chances are they will be competing with other home buyers. So, unfortunately, more often than not, the selling brokers are just as frustrated as the buyers they are trying to help……and it does not look like there is any relief in sight.
8 Tips to help prepare buyers for todays market realities:
Our goal as real estate professionals is to set our buyers up for success. Put them in a position to win while having a move forward strategy if they don’t.
The real estate market in Kitsap County continues to be in a pressure cooker for buyers. There are 23% fewer houses on the market than last year, prices are up 11% and climbing, interest rates are edging north and we have more King County people looking west as they get fed up with higher prices, time killing traffic and now have fast foot ferry service to 3 ports on this side of the water.
The moral of the story, be selective about who you work with as buyers and focus on working with sellers.
March NWMLS News Release is now available! Check it out below or visit my Facebook page here for more information.
Today I asked the question, what does it mean to get to the next level? It started some great conversation among the new and experienced agents!
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“The threshold between just getting into the business and doing real estate because it comes your way to now saying wait a minute I want to do real estate on purpose.”