Putting the Squeeze on Realtor Commissions?? Realtors track the housing market all sorts of ways. In my case, that includes monitoring the activity of my own listings; reading widely, both housing-related material and not; noting what I observe showing homes to my Buyer clients; and listening to what’s being discussed at the various Realtor meetings I attend weekly....Read More
Tuning Out (and In) It’s purely anecdotal (vs. scientific), but here’s one way to tell if a new listing is going to be a hit: when the listing agent (representing the Seller) plugs it at the weekly Broker’s meeting . . . all the other agents suddenly get quiet. Normally, agents listen selectively (myself excluded...Read More
