{"id":7197,"date":"2009-02-27T16:19:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2009-02-27T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T01:08:13","slug":"dual-agency-debated-outside-of-the-echo-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7197\/dual-agency-debated-outside-of-the-echo-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual Agency Debated Outside of the Echo Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google News plopped a link to a Blog post on SFGate.com (The San Francisco Chronicle’s <\/em>Web site) about dual agency<\/a> in front of me today.<\/p>\n

It’s always interesting to see a discussion about what Greg calls “…the insane way we compensate buyer\u2019s agents in the residential real estate market” in the MSM, even if the arc of the dialog is predictable (“Agents are whores and criminals!”, “No we’re not”, “The traditional Real Estate model is dead!”, “No it isn’t!”, ad nauseum)<\/p>\n

Discussions in the Real Estate blogosphere on this topic have a certain navel-gazing quality to them. That is not the case when regular people, many of whom have been involved in a recent transaction have their say. My favorite comment from the thread:<\/p>\n

No conflict here. Just get the highest price for a seller and the lowest for the buyer at the same time. This is great!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The way the Realtors, some of whom identify themselves and some of whom just embarrass themselves by shilling for the status quo in such an obvious manner that their identity is transparent, jump all over these discussions just adds fuel to the fire.<\/p>\n

The Realtors doth protest too much, methinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google News plopped a link to a Blog post on SFGate.com (The San Francisco Chronicle’s Web site) about dual agency in front of me today. It’s always interesting to see a discussion about what Greg calls “…the insane way we compensate buyer\u2019s agents in the residential real estate market” in the MSM, even if the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,62,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-carnival-of-real-estate","7":"category-dirty-laundry","8":"category-dual-agency","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/87\/dual-agency-benefits-neither-buyer-nor-seller\/","url_meta":{"origin":7197,"position":0},"title":"Dual agency benefits neither buyer nor seller","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Quote: \"Double-dipping isn't very far from double-dealing, and dual agency has always been the Achilles' heel of the real estate industry.\" That's me in today's Arizona Republic. 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