2,684,009
My most recent listings that sold:
A. Cooperating brokers who saw my listing in MLS and notified their buyers.
B. Cooperating brokers whose client saw my house on Zillow.
C. Sold my own listing because Buyer saw house on Zillow, drove by, called me off my yard sign.
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Ryan Huggins - Thousan...
Thousand Oaks, CA
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Dorie Dillard Austin TX
Austin, TX
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Dr. Karen Lewis, Broke...
Fort Lauderdale, FL
5,048,708
Thge vast majority come from agents and I assume through the MLS, but buyers may be looking on their own and calling their agents. No way to know.
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Dr. Karen Lewis, Broke...
Fort Lauderdale, FL
3,344,906
MLS
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Dr. Karen Lewis, Broke...
Fort Lauderdale, FL
7,834,939
I hope you are personally developing buyer prospects.
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Dr. Karen Lewis, Broke...
Fort Lauderdale, FL
2,182,502
MLS > 70% of the time
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Dr. Karen Lewis, Broke...
Fort Lauderdale, FL
1,844,171
Samples of surveys I've seen is B. But if they ever get the MLS portals up & running & they look good that might change in the future. But for now I think Z, T & R.c have it pretty well sewn up.
Always a 'clump' when you say other.
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Dr. Karen Lewis, Broke...
Fort Lauderdale, FL
679,404
Highest percentage is from an Agent through MLS
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Dr. Karen Lewis, Broke...
Fort Lauderdale, FL
1,598,452
Yes, great question.
And the answers too.
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Valeria Mola
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
2,071,025
mls
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Valeria Mola
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
757,885
They usually come from the MLS.
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Pete Xavier
Pacific Palisades, CA
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
5,104,806
All I care about is that my listings sell... I have no clue how a buyer finds a home when they are seeing it with another agent.
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
6,392,879
Many come from them seeing it on Zillow and then calling their agent, then the agent calls me.
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
5,228,997
I know that in my area, A is the #1 answer. I would think that most areas are like this as well. We co-broke with other agents via our MLS.
Secondary buyers come from sign calls, online marketing efforts (including Z & R).
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
1,622,432
Most of the times they are directed by agents, but it does not mean that they do not research by themselves online and call your directly for showing even if they have an agent.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Dr. Karen Lewis, Broke...
Fort Lauderdale, FL
5,583,278
once it's in MLS, Z and the other syndication companies have it immediately.... if you market the listing online before you put it on mls, you'll rank higher than the syndication companies when they do get it... you should always submit it to mls but not first....market it first...do not eliminate mls.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Dr. Karen Lewis, Broke...
Fort Lauderdale, FL
921,504
"...do you get your listing on contract from MLS or Other"
Are you asking the source of the forms/contract, the source of the buyer agent or the source of the buyer/contact?
In many cases, submission to MLS is for statistical purposes. In such cases the CONTACT is OTHER FORMS OF ADVERTISING.
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
2,220,323
It depends where the buyer found the listing. There are numerous platforms online that offer this information. Most of the time is from the recommendation from their agent.
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
953,617
1,543,225
MLS, property website, marketing and For Sale Sign.
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
117,135
Its tought to say because when the buyer comes through an agent, we ont know if they called the agent because they saw it on the MLS feed sent from that agent or if they saw if on another site.
When I have buyers, I send them the feed, but they also set up their own searches therough other sources like trulia. etc
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
2,060,946
I'd say that 90% of the time, the buyer comes through an agent. I've always assumed they discovered it on the MLS... but it's always possible the buyer called their agent, 'cause they saw the yard sign, or maybe they found it on one of the peripheral sites.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
508,218
I would say that most of the time the contract comes as a result of the MLS. Primarily because agents want to be paid and the MLS is the way they get paid ie: co-broke.
Once in a while you may get lucky and get a drive-by or call from an ad on Social Media, but most of the time those buyers end up bringing their agent anyway. Advertising your listings is a good way to get more listings or perhaps a buyer, even if they don't buy the one you have advertised.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
1,712,676
Nationally A would be the correct answer.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
1,725,896
We have had buyers come through other syndicated websites more often than directly through the MLS with another agent
5,868,372
Buyers do get set up with feeds on new listings, so it could be either.
4,935,551
3,986,258
1,502,848
98% through a realtor. Now the real question is, are they seeing it because the agent picked it out or because they saw it online and sent it to the agent. That's the million dollar question that most agents won't answer.
4,800,082
I don't know for sure, but they do typically come from the MLS feed one way or another.
3,416,038
Most often half see it through their buyer agents and half see my ads most often online but sometimes in print too. Our MLS syndicates our listings everywhere so indirectly is part of exposing the listing to buyers
3,071,489
From the MLS, not through an agent, but through syndication to public facing websites
4,434,127
4,319,419
353,865
I'm voting for "C", and echo what Jeff Dowler said. I think most buyers find the property themselves on Whatever site ie. zillow, then call an agent to arrange a viewing. Your choices suggest that a Realtor contacts the client. I think that's 50% nowadays.
3,164,119
I know where my buyers come from, but not always the buyers on my listings. My buyers are a mix of on line advertising (where they may or may not see t he house they ultimately buy) or from referal or past client and in that case I certainly use the MLS to keep them up to date on listings. It's rare for a buyer to find a home that I haven't told them about and even more rare for that the be the home they ultimately buy.
259,317
No matter how much we try to educate buyers that our MLS listing is the most current, they still search all the other top search engines.
My experience on Open Houses is actually 50/50 on where they saw online
3,988,007
The buyers come from seeing it on the Internet on the varied sites including social media, aggregated sites, and MLS.
1,751,029
Most of mine would be from another source if they called me directly. The other source would be cooperating brokers.
577,750
The majority come from co-operating brokers... either because they saw my listing and notified their agent, or their agent saw my listing on the MLS and called their agent, and in some instances the Buyer saw it and called me direct.
2,781,013
Agent notifies the buyer when MLS. However, on coming soon signs it differs
5,005,333
You have some good answers. Real estate is local but I'd say 85-95% come through an agent from the MLS in our area.