Friday, 9 December 2011

Picking Your Real Estate Agent

By Andy Smith


Real estate is all about selling and purchasing properties such as land and buildings. This industry can be a profitable business if your qualitative research skills are exceptional. If you want to make a career in this field, the first step that you need to take is to go for real estate internships.

If you want things to go smoothly, you should be careful when choosing your real estate agent. Your agent has influence on losing or gaining a significant amount of money on your home transaction. You must be diligent when choosing a real estate agent -- first, you have to look for a real estate agent that has experience.

Foreclosures in Colorado's metro countries have also take a steep dive since last year according to the Colorado Division of Real Estate. The fourth quarter is starting off to a good start with a 23.2% decrease in foreclosure filings from last October. Beyond just the filings, foreclosures sales have also decreased 28.3% since last October, which is very promising for homeowners.

These numbers are continued successes from earlier 2011 data. In fact March saw a 44% increase in home and condo sales in the Metro area according to Metrolist. Denver is seeing steady improvement. While the numbers are nowhere near the pre-crash real estate market, a stable appreciation of home values is more than welcomed.

Also ensure that your agent is a licensed realtor. Licensing helps weed out some of the people that talk a good game, but can't back it up with all the appropriate rules and regulations.

The decreased commercial vacancies bring more good news in the form of jobs. According to the Denver Economic Development Corporation businesses increased hiring in January and February, which added 5,200 jobs to the Denver area.

As an intern, you are going to deal with the client requests that are coming to an agent, gather details for a top management of the company or help loan officer in finding potential customers. The best part about these internships is that it will help you in finishing your college degree as well as gain valuable work experience.




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