Is Your Real Estate Agent Available 24/7
Having a real estate that is available at any time can be reassuring to both sellers and buyers. You would be surprised how many times someone suddenly has a panic attack when they don’t know the answer to a simple question regarding the sale or purchase of real estate. I don’t necessarily encourage you to ring your agent every time something troubles you – but knowing they are there if you need them can be reassuring.
This is just one of the services a good real estate agent can provide. Most agents are happy to give you their business card. Most will have their office number and office hours printed, and perhaps even an after hours number. This is not always your agents number of course – it could be an answering service, or just an answering machine. Including a home number is a rare sight these days.
Other services include help in accessing the MLS, help in identifying relevant services to your family’s needs, and for sellers, help in obtaining accurate property valuations. The role of a real estate agent is to provide a service to clients whether seller or buyer. For sellers, their role is to sell the property as quickly as possible for the highest price possible. For buyers of course, the opposite is true. Rather than speed, obtaining the right property for the right price is paramount.
Real estate agents are there to serve your needs. When searching for a real estate agent to represent you, check on what services they actually offer. Are they there 24/7? Will they help you search the MLS, or will they only show you their own listings? After all – they’re your agent.
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June 12th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
American pending home sales climbed in April wildly as purchasers signed contracts to receive a government tax credit. The National Association of Realtors’ measure for pending sales of used homesclimbed by 6.0% to 110.9 in April, the organization said Wednesday. The gain was the third consecutive one. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had expected pending home sales would climb in April by 5.0%. First-time home-buyers acted in time to beat the April 30 deadline for the tax credit. Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said sales this spring seem as strong as those last fall, before the original expiration date.