The day is at hand…real estate agents are closer to extinction than ever before.
O.K…that’s a stretch, but a man can dream. Zillow has a soft spot in my heart for pushing my dream closer to reality .
I am reminded of the two idiot brothers Duke and Duke who want the machines truned back on to unwind their losses. I would not put that past Bush and Cheney :) .
I asked the good folk at Zillow to create Zillow 1.0 for nostalgic reasons so people could look back at their prices from 2006. They laughed of course, ROFL to be exact, but there is a model there!
I can’t do it all for them.
PS – Before all the agent hate mail remeber if you are good, this post does not matter. I speak in generalities.
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one of the best movie sequences.. Beeks!
Very cool, short at $1.42, close at 29-cents.
My wife is a realtor.. things are pretty dead these days. Talk about a 1-2 punch for us.
I’m selling my home right now, and I will dance in the street the day the 6% commission is officially dead. So far having an agent has actually been a negative value (people asking us when contract with agent is up so that they can save 5%). Who knows though….ugly markets make brokers look bad in any field.
jimmy k – cant keep a good man down. it’s still america. everybody loves a comeback
Andy,
You’re not alone as there are MANY folks in a rough spot with what has/is happening to the RE market.
This is indeed an ugly market in RE and it’s getting uglier every day in most areas of the country.
I’ll likely catch the wrath of realtors (or their spouses) who read Howard’s blog, but the truth is that the industry is rapidly changing, to the extent that their non-negotiable and “etched in stone” 6% commish is going to be a thing of the past sooner than later.
Indeed, EVERYTHING is negotiable, especially commissions on selling RE.
Realtors used to have the upper hand by keeping the MLS system to themselves but with the advent of companies like Zillow and others, the flow of information has increased.