Tag: real estate commissions
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AI Can Sell Your Home. Genius Move? Or Colossal Blunder Waiting to Happen?
Did you catch that New York Times tech reporter’s article? Yes, the one detailing his attempt—successful, he assures us—to sell a home with a chatbot instead of an agent. Human real estate agents, we can imagine, are not exactly thrilled. Home sales, agents quickly point out, are high-risk transactions. There’s a lot of money at…
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Do Private Listings Hurt Senior Home Sellers?
Once a home is listed on the market, it shows up for sale on the popular real estate websites. That’s almost always best for home sellers and buyers alike. Are there times when a “pocket listing” makes sense? Yes, but that’s the rare case. We’ll explore that in a moment. The main thing is to…
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Selling Without a Real Estate Agent? New Incentives, New Challenges
You might have heard that selling your home yourself could save you thousands of dollars in agent commissions. It’s a fact. Putting your home up For Sale By Owner (FSBO) is one way to get around agent commissions — which do still exist! Yet there are hurdles as well as potential rewards for the FSBO…
