ISSN:
1573-045X
Keywords:
Real estate brokerage
;
housing search
;
sellers' agents
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Economics
Notes:
Abstract We explain why buyers in the housing market use an agent employed by the seller. Such agents reduce buyers' search costs so that more buyers search a particular house. This increases the probability of the sale of the house and possibly also its selling price. However, since the selling price increases, if at all, by less than the fee paid by the seller to the agent, both buyers and sellers are better off. We identify two characteristics that give rise to sellers' agents and show that markets that do not have such agents are missing at least one of these characteristics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00173121
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