buyer agent: A day in the life of an Exclusive Buyer Agent
- 05/30/07 02:45 AM
As an Exclusive Buyer Agent with my own business, I have a lot of freedom of how to organize my day. Here are some of the things I do on a typical day: Check my emails and weed out the junk mail folder --- careful, sometimes a legitimate email from a genuine lead will creep in here.Look through my auto-prospecting folders to see which properties are new and are worth previewing for my clientsSpend some time on marketing issues such as updating areas of my website, drafting a new ad or flyer or post flyers in the neighborhood or replenish business cards in … (6 comments)
buyer agent: Poaching Clients
- 05/29/07 11:55 AM
Recent comments from my clients made me listen up: other agents are out there to poach clients. Generally I don't have a written buyers agency agreement with my clients, because my relationship with them is based on trust. Only sometimes it makes me feel a little uneasy. Lately when my clients have been going to open houses they have been getting the same question: "Are you working with someone?" And when my clients then dutifully say that they have an agent in San Francisco, they figure that the conversation would end then. But no, it doesn't. See, my clients are looking for property in Marin … (8 comments)
buyer agent: The price of Sun
- 05/25/07 09:24 AM
Sitting in the fog of San Francisco's Inner Sunset looking out of my office I wonder whether it's sunny in Noe Valley. And it could be. San Francisco is one of those amazing places with many microclimates. And these microclimates influence the price of property in the city. In Noe Valley, where it is generally much sunnier than in other areas of the city, median prices are much higher than in the Outer Sunset, where you could be at the beach --- that is if you could see it through the thick fog. Here's the comparison of Single Family Homes sold in April 2007: Noe … (0 comments)
buyer agent: San Francisco MLS adds cool new features
- 05/24/07 05:34 AM
The San Francisco MLS recently added some cool new features that are now available to clients.If you currently have searches set up through me (or any other SF Realtor) and receive automatic emails with new listings you will have received an email from your Realtor inviting you to access your own "Client Portal". Your Client Portal consists of three tabs: Newly Matched Listings, Saved Listings and Rejected Listings. You can navigate through these tabs and listings with the click of your mouse, save listing or reject them. You can even make comments on these listings which will then be sent to your Realtor.Your Client … (0 comments)
buyer agent: Marin is new stomping ground for San Francisco Real Estate Agents
- 05/24/07 05:27 AM
Finally a reciprocal agreement has been reached by the San Francisco MLS and the North Bay MLS to give brokers in both areas access to each others listings. This is great news for San Francisco agents who previously had to refer their clients to other agents once their clients were ready to move out of San Francisco and up into the relative tranquility of Marin.What does this mean for buyers? A buyer who's still unsure about whether to buy in San Francisco or Marin now only has to engage one real estate agent in the search process. No more juggling between … (0 comments)
buyer agent: What can an Exclusive Buyer Agent do for you?
- 05/15/07 04:34 AM
Traditionally real estate agents have always represented the seller in real estate transactions. By law the listing agent owes fiduciary duties to his client, the seller, and has to get the best price and terms for his client. This often comes at a price for the buyer, namely that the listing agent may reveal anything about the buyer to the seller, including the maximum price a buyer is willing to pay. Revealing such information to the seller reduces the buyer's negotiating power. The buyer is treated as a customer, not a client.So what is a buyer to do? A buyer should … (5 comments)
As an Exclusive Buyer Agent with my own business, I have a lot of freedom of how to organize my day. Here are some of the things I do on a typical day:
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