Buying A Home?

Put an Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR) to work for you
Cheryl Wolf – BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES

A real estate agent may represent either the buyer or the seller. The Seller will have representation will you?
Until very recently, real estate agents almost always represented the seller, not the buyer, in the real estate transaction.  Even the real estate agent who drove you from home to home was not working on your behalf.  By law, the agent was required to work on the seller’s side – to get the highest price and the best terms for the seller.

Is your agent working for you?

All That Has Changed!   Wide –sweeping changes in Multiple Listing Service regulations as well as revisions in legislation and local real estate regulations have opened a whole new era in real estate transactions…

The Age of Buyer Representation.

Today, many real estate agents and companies are offering to represent the buyer in the real estate transaction.  From the initial selection of properties, all the way through contract negotiations and settlement, you can now have an agent specifically committed to representing your best interest when buying a home.

Consumer advocacy groups have endorsed such representation, and licensing laws in virtually every state are now being reworked to enable and encourage representation for the buyer.

The “Accredited Buyer Representative” Designation.

To attain this designation, a real estate practitioner must complete and extensive classroom training program on buyer agency practices and procedures, pass a written examination and submit evidence of practical experience as a buyer’s representative.  So…id a real estate transaction is in your future, put an Accredited Buyer Representative to work for you.

More than one million people in the United States are licensed to sell real estate.  Of those licensees, fewer than 2 percent are Accredited Buyer Representative. (ABR)