Real estate agent news briefs Posted on March 27th
First up, a compendium of news about your friendly (in one case, maybe not-so-friendly) neighborhood real estate agent:
Hunters’ demands: Years ago, when I was considering selling my house, I called an apparently successful agent and left a message that I would like to talk to him about listing my home. He called me back seven days later. I didn’t like that.
But even I, crabby as I am, wouldn’t be as demanding as many of today’s consumers. Leslie Appleton-Young, economist for the California Association of Realtors, recently told a crowd of agents in Sacramento that a new survey suggests that more than half of today’s home buyers and sellers expect to hear back from an agent within 30 minutes. America, you just have to cut back on that caffeine.
Appleton-Young also told them that a large majority of consumers browse online for eight weeks to two months before lining up an agent. Forty percent of them look at search engines first, eyeballing agents’ Web sites, she said.
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