• Neighborhood data • Price guidance
• Market conditions • Showing requests • Negotiation skills • Confidentiality • Paperwork/contract handling • Closing assistance • Support through each step • A relationship for the future • Much, much more
When you need help from other professionals, real estate agents can provide referrals to qualified home inspectors, movers, attorneys, and other experts. Amazingly, a buyer generally doesn’t directly pay a commission to a real estate agent on a house purchase. So, why wouldn’t you want a real estate agent’s help? On most home sales, there is a listing agent (the agent engaged by the seller to sell the property) and a selling agent (the agent who introduces the eventual buyer into the transaction). The selling agent is sometimes called the “buyer’s agent” because she is often working on the buyer’s behalf. There are some real estate agents who market themselves as “buyer’s agents,” “exclusive buyer’s agents,” or “buyer’s representatives.” These real estate agents have chosen to make a business of finding homes for prospective buyers, handling the negotiations and transactions having to do with the purchase. Those who market themselves as buyer’s agents indicate they’re only working for the buyer in a real estate transaction.
A buyer’s agent will track down homes that meet your criteria,
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