NAR Report Highlights What Sellers Want Most of Their Realtors

Real Estate Agent with Long & Foster | Christie's International Real Estate Licensed in DC, MD, VA

March 25, 2009 02:59 PM

In a new report on the 2008 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers by the National Association of REALTORS®, released March 24, key findings were that:

Overall, 21 percent of sellers indicated that what they wanted most from their agent was help pricing their home competitively.
Other important considerations were
- help selling the home within a specific timeframe (20 percent),
- help finding a buyer (20 percent), and
- help marketing to potential buyers (20 percent).
When the responses are examined by the level of service a seller wanted, a few interesting differences were observed.
- Twenty-eight percent of sellers who requested a limited set of services wanted help pricing their home competitively.
- By comparison sellers who relied on an agent primarily to list their home with a multiple listing service were most likely to want help selling their home within a specified timeframe.