What is missing here, is why should the real
estate consumer want to deal with a Registrant / REALTOR at Keller Williams verses someone else at another competing brand?
Real
estate consumers want to save money just like REALTORS.
Not exact matches
We just
wanted to provide the
consumer with the same information as the real -
estate agent and then let them work together.
«Just because you make more information available to
consumers, it doesn't mean they
want or need a real
estate agent less,» he says.
«Real
estate consumers now have a tool to help them decide whether they want their contracts to be assignable,» says B.C. Real Estate Association (BCREA) President Deanna
estate consumers now have a tool to help them decide whether they
want their contracts to be assignable,» says B.C. Real
Estate Association (BCREA) President Deanna
Estate Association (BCREA) President Deanna Horn.
«This gives
consumers more power when working with a real
estate professional by allowing home sellers and buyers to negotiate a combination of fees and commissions, tailoring the cost to the services they
want,» reads a government - issued backgrounder.
It is logical to
want to work directly with a real
estate agent who can provide a wealth of information they otherwise would not be able to divulge to
consumers.
Consumers these days
want at least 5.5 - inch real
estate and a full HD resolution screen.
Consumers simply
want real
estate professionals to be competent and ethical and provide value added — their expectations haven't changed.
Online
consumers want anonymity, control, privacy, and easy access to real
estate information.
As my friend Dave Jenks, a famous author, once said: «You
want to be first in the mind of your
consumer public when they think of real
estate.»
A good percentage of Real
Estate consumer's have always
wanted to have access to Registrant's or Practitioner's pass - codes to our internal industry data - bases, but it has historically been a serious breach of our rules to share them.
If you're ready to retire from business ownership, but
want to stay active in the field, consider using all those years of hard - won expertise to help
consumers or other real
estate professionals.
Viewpoint Realty's website reinforces this position, stating to
consumers, «We're actually licensed as a brokerage in a number of other provinces but unfortunately we're yet not able to offer Viewpoint in these provinces because real
estate boards and other data suppliers
want to restrict you from having convenient access to property and listing data.
Forty - six percent of
consumers want their current or next home to have smart home technology, according to a survey by ERA Real
Estate and HGTV.
As a
consumer of real
estate services, you can bet that I would
want my listing presented to a national audience of home buyers and not hidden away in an MLS book that realtors control.
Today RESPA is preventing real
estate companies from giving
consumers the one - stop shopping they
want.
Langlois says: «
Consumers are spending an average of 11 months in their home search process, predominantly online, and Zoocasa wants to support these consumers and allow them to conveniently connect with real estate professionals across the entire process including Realtors, mortgage lenders or other such expert
Consumers are spending an average of 11 months in their home search process, predominantly online, and Zoocasa
wants to support these
consumers and allow them to conveniently connect with real estate professionals across the entire process including Realtors, mortgage lenders or other such expert
consumers and allow them to conveniently connect with real
estate professionals across the entire process including Realtors, mortgage lenders or other such experts.»
The essence of FSBO companies is that they
want the
consumer / seller to believe that they can sell their own home without professional real
estate and that by doing so whatever commission they would otherwise have paid will stay in the seller's pocket.
It still remains that it behooves a
consumer to do his / her own up - front due diligence (research) when rationally (hopefully) choosing what style of real
estate services one
wants to pay for.
In real
estate we are certainly seeing that information
wants to be free —
consumers want information and they do not
want to be forced to fill in a website contact form or talk to a salesperson, at least initially, to get the information.
We know that
consumers don't
want to talk to a bot about real
estate.
That said, Karris confirms a fact most online real
estate companies have discovered: The vast majority of
consumers still
want a real
estate practitioner to help them through the real
estate transaction and closing process.
«You are judged by the company you keep... You will
want to «keep our company» working for / with you by connecting with Carolyne today,» and showing all the ways to contact me, and later on, in 1997, when the web appeared, I implemented it yet again as a call to action, inviting my readers to review the many possibilities in my web site
consumer education articles, by cross-referencing my URL in every piece of promo, adding such things as «keep my company,» ~ top of mind, for your personal real
estate needs.
«We
want to keep the Guild relatively small so its members stand out in
consumers» minds,» says Ralph Miller, CRB, CRS ®, broker - owner of Hughes & Hughes Real
Estate Co..
But whatever the reasons for running a real
estate company, I would hope that the majority of brokers do so as a result of
wanting to own and operate a professional business that generates a reasonable return on investment and provides an opportunity to serve the
consumer, home buyer, seller and Realtor, as well as providing the ability to own a profitable business.
Both are top of mind for the 46 percent of
consumers who say they
want smart features in their next home, according to a 2014 survey conducted by ERA Real
Estate and HGTV.
What Melanie Aitkens
wants is that the
consumer be given choice, and if all you say comes to pass they may likely choose the «organized» real
estate gang route rather than the Melanie route.
When it comes to real
estate commissions,
consumers want to know they're getting solid value.
«Real
estate consumers now have a tool to help them decide whether they
want their contracts to be assignable,» says BCREA president Deanna Horn.
Customers are more likely to
want to work with a real
estate professional with a good sense of humor, according to a 2008 study by Baylor University's Keller Center, «What Do
Consumers Expect From Agents?»
Today's Web - savvy
consumers want to work with technologically proficient real
estate professionals, says Cronk, and, frankly, so do most REALTORS ® who are already wired.
What is so important about Lifestyle Search for the real
estate industry today is that it offers industry members an opportunity to harness data they may already know, put emphasis on the knowledge, skills and abilities of REALTORS ®; and brokers to give the
consumer what they
want.
\ you sound like a real staunch supporter of Ms. Aitken and oufits like the Competition Bureau who rides the white horse and rescues the damsels in distress (the public in this case) with as Brian Martindale put it endless amounts of our money and time to for all intent and purposes keep organized real
estate in line, if you Joe
Consumer want to sell your home privately and feel that you are being disadvantaged by organized real
estate, then I wish you and anyone in consumerland all the best, in your words you have choices, as do we, it just seems you sound a little slanted, but of course you could appeal that opionion!!!
Studies have shown
consumers want at least three things when they go to a real
estate website: listings, and all of them; market data so they can try to determine if it is a good time to buy or sell and to help them approximate the value of their property; and information about the communities they are considering.
There are currently many Realtor and real
estate company websites out there that achieve what the
consumer wants.
But believe it or not, there are very good folks in the business of genuinely helping
consumers who
want the help to deal with their real
estate concerns; apparently you just haven't had the good fortune of being exposed to the benefits of dealing with such a Realtor.
I
want ERA to be the company that gives you as a
consumer or as a real
estate professional the confidence that you're dealing with the most ethical, the most professional, the best - trained, the best - equipped, and the most successful company and salesperson out there.
If
consumers want change in the Real
Estate & Business Brokers Act they need only speak to their elected politicians.
MP: What do
consumers want in a real
estate professional?
The paper, a result of a study conducted by Harrison Group on the luxury real
estate market, focuses on affluent American
consumer's
wants and needs in today's economic environment.
RISMEDIA, January 15, 2010 — Reaching out to
consumers and giving them what they
want is crucial to remaining ahead of the competition in today's real
estate market.
Moen: Last fall the Futures Implementation Team identified four strategic focus areas that they
wanted to concentrate on: development of a state - of the - art technology platform, providing information and tools to Realtors and to
consumers; increased emphasis and enhancement of professional development to increase our value to
consumers; looking at restructuring organized real
estate — the governance — to expedite decision making, and ultimately reduce costs and duplication; and finally to acquire
consumer insight so organized real
estate can understand changing
consumer needs and improve our relationship with
consumers.
Leveraging Your Links is a compelling and sophisticated, yet practical, treatment of social media for real
estate professionals and any businesspeople who
want to connect with clients and
consumers online.
With eco-boomers steadily rising as some of the industry's mainstay
consumers, according to Rick Gregory, vice president of Business Development & Operations for Better Homes and Gardens Real
Estate, we need to focus on the ways
consumers want to be talked to.
«It's important to talk to the
consumer and ask, «What do you
want in terms of service from a real
estate professional today?»»
It makes no sense to me that someone would
want a member of an organization (independent or franchised) to financially support, via fees and dues, the advertising of a
consumer web site, be it the Vancouver Real
Estate Board web site, mls.ca or any other web site, because it directly diverts business away from them.
«We
wanted organized real
estate to serve its members, not to provide services to
consumers.
In a world where people and professionals have hundreds of choices to make every day, including which real
estate company they feel is best for their unique, individual needs and
wants, the CENTURY 21 System is increasingly earning the reputation as the «go - to» company for both real
estate consumers who seek the best of both tech and human experiences, and for industry professionals
wanting more growth - oriented support.
Some scripts can be lame though, if they just ask a Real
Estate consumer the obvious question: «do you
want to get the most money for your home, instead of telling them this is what I plan to do......... to get the most money for your home.