While going around your neighborhood and shaking hands and passing out your business card is still an important aspect of generating leads as a real estate agent, even the most ardent
of traditional real estate agents can't deny the power social media is having on this industry.
While today's buyers often prefer to house hunt on their own,
traditional real estate agents still spend 80 % of their time driving potential clients around who may never make a deal and marketing themselves to find new clients.
This structure permits Realtysellers to offer consumers the same, or better, quality of services offerd
by traditional real estate agents, at a significant cost savings to the consumer.»
He sees real estate services as an industry that can be broken down into component parts and done more cheaply by players other than
traditional real estate agents.
«Our platform is available for the same fee as one would pay
a traditional real estate agent, with the added benefit of total transparency and a sales guarantee.»
The Purplebricks business model offers the same service as
a traditional real estate agent at a fraction of the cost (roughly a 60 % -70 % savings).
Is it true that owners with high value homes are still more comfortable using
a traditional real estate agent (even though they could proportionally save more on commissions by using a service such as Purplebricks), or is it still early days with Purplebricks building trust in a new market?
Let's compare that to
a traditional real estate agent sale.
«The writing is on the wall for
the traditional real estate agent.
We believe in
the traditional real estate agent and we don't believe the discount model is going to be successful.
«What separates us from other companies in this space is that we are here to empower
the traditional real estate agent.
A traditional real estate agent will make all sorts of demands that will slow the sale of your house, and you wouldn't be looking to sell your house fast if you had time to wait.
If you ask
a traditional real estate agent, you'll be told to upgrade or fix things before they will sell it.
There's a fundamental issue with VR that goes against the grain of
a traditional real estate agent's job.
Having been through the offer process with
a traditional real estate agent, Trinity and Justin were surprised by how easy it was to submit offers through Open Listings.
I know there are
some traditional real estate agents who sometimes may be innocently represent themselves as an exclusive buyer agent.
A traditional real estate agent works in a real estate office that has listings.
These substantial advances in technology have changed the way that our customers buy and sell real estate and have forced
the traditional real estate agent workflow to change; we have made a significant capital investment in the future of our White Plains office to accommodate this phenomenon.