{"id":1142,"date":"2013-12-28T22:35:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T22:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2013-12-28T22:35:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T22:35:51","slug":"most-online-house-hunters-use-real-estate-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/28\/most-online-house-hunters-use-real-estate-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"MOST ONLINE HOUSE HUNTERS, USE REAL ESTATE AGENTS &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet has made house hunting convenient for potential buyers, but a recent study indicates that hasn&#8217;t harmed the business for real estate agents.\u00a0 After searching on line, the buyers contact a real estate agent.\u00a0 92% searched using the Internet, then 90% purchased a home through a licensed agent.\u00a0 When buyers asked where they first learned about the home they purchased, 43% said the Internet, 33% from agent, 9% yard sign or open house, 6% friend, 5% home builders, 2% from seller and 1% from print from newspaper ad.\u00a0 This survey done by NAR (National Association of Realtors).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet has made house hunting convenient for potential buyers, but a recent study indicates that hasn&#8217;t harmed the business for real estate agents.\u00a0 After searching on line, the buyers contact a real estate agent.\u00a0 92% searched using the Internet, then 90% purchased a home through a licensed agent.\u00a0 When buyers asked where they first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}