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Buyers are being picky — here’s how you can navigate it as a real estate agent

Housing Wire

home sales in nearly 30 years as high mortgage rates frustrate buyers, the market is reshaping real estate once again, placing buyers on the back foot and swinging the pendulum back to favoring sellers. The changing tides Previously, buyers were able to look for over a month, as average days on market continued to climb.

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Download these 9 real estate prospecting letter templates that actually work

Housing Wire

Access to a hyper-local agent is more important now than ever. You can absolutely send this type of mailer to homeowners around a recently sold property that someone else sold — but make sure you adjust the language and ensure it’s clear you were not the listing agent. I recommend getting permission from the listing agent first.

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Agents gear up for a turbulent 2023 housing market

Real Trends

The housing market looks a lot different than it did just 12 months ago in cities and metropolitan areas across the country, and agents and brokers have had to adapt. “If As of December 18, 2022, the nationwide median for days on market was 70 days, up from 49 days a year ago.

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Here’s the key to being an empowered real estate professional in 2022

Housing Wire

What matters for your market (wherever you are) is what patterns are developing near you. new listings, sold listings, days on market, off-market listings?—?will the trends and patterns that are unique to your market and will allow you to? Being a market expert helps your brand? ?. will help you?identify?the

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The Most Fascinating Listing I Have Ever Seen!

Toronto Realty Blog

Regular readers have probably seen blog posts on this subject before: houses that are listed over-and-over again, often with different prices, pricing strategies, and listing agents. I don’t have an official “record book” for this, but I don’t recall a property being listed twenty-two times without an on-market sale.

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Top 10 Home Features that are Surprisingly Enticing for Buyers

Broke Agent Media

While some of the top features also led to faster home sales, others contributed to longer days on market. That said, some features added days on market as well as a sale premium. more, but it can also add an extra two days on market.

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9 Skills Agents Need to Work With Investors & Close 50-100 Deals a Year

The Close

Don’t get me wrong—this is not a get-rich-quick scheme for new agents and it certainly isn’t for everyone. Building the skills you’ll need to regularly pinpoint undervalued, off-market properties, advise investors, and close sometimes tricky deals won’t be easy. Be an Expert in Your Market.