Some realtors (not all of course) are such hypocrites. Publicly they will tell you 'all is fine; we're returning to a normal market; now is a great time to buy', etc., etc. But according to this article, privately, they're scared to death.I asked one realtor (who contacted my by email and who reads this blog) if I started a thread just for her would she be willing to respond to potentially very direct and pointed reader questions? When she replied that she was favorable to the idea but would have to think about it because of 'concerns over how it might affect her business' I dropped the whole idea.
Some choice quotes:
If the secret worries of real estate professionals are any indication, home prices could be heading for a swoon.
When Brad Inman of Inman News, which tracks the real estate industry and is widely read by industry insiders, recently gave real estate agents the opportunity to blog about market conditions, they almost uniformly described them as bad – and getting worse.
"Normally, brokers and agents tend to sugarcoat the news; they don't want to affect consumer confidence," says Inman.
4 comments:
enough already of this pathetic attempt by Mr. Innman to get people to pay for his lame blog access. This article has been posted twice already on Patrick.net in the last 3 days. Get with the program already
I guess that goes to show how often I read patrick.net. Sorry that you were so offended
i'm a loan broker,and i have been telling people not to buy for more than a year and to either get a fixed loan or get out,it sure hasn't helped my business any,and i have actually been told jeez tom don't tell them the truth or they won't buy...some do anyway,and i still hear co-workers say "prices have never gone down in sonoma county,they only flatten for a while" median price is down $44,000 since october,and that # is skewed upward by the sale of higher priced homes.not to mention 1990-1997,some people deserve to catch a social disease from their dogs...
anonymous #341,527
Perhaps you should start your own blog. That way you can ignore Inman, or anyone else you desire.
Come back and let us know when you're good to go.
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