Here's another newcomer want to help home seller save on commissions.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/m...ive-realtors-a-run-for-their-money-2018-08-16
https://showpal.com/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/m...ive-realtors-a-run-for-their-money-2018-08-16
https://showpal.com/
A few years ago, Chad Torstenson decided to sell his house. His experience, he said, was ?fairly typical.? A real-estate agent came to his home with a contract, a photo shoot was done, and a sign went up in the front yard.
?With the press of a button, the home was online and buyers began touring the home,? Torstenson said. ?However, my listing agent was not giving the tours, the buyer?s agents were. After the home sold, I realized that my agent did very little to earn his share of (the commission),? he said.
He began to think about what he calls ?the value of the Realtor to the consumer,? and the more he researched, the more convinced he became that professional real estate agents are redundant.
?This? became a company called ShowPal, which launched in Torstenson?s home city of Des Moines just in time for the 2018 selling season, funded by friends and family. ShowPal and a few other upstarts like it may be the answer to ? finally ? modernizing the buying and selling of real estate
ShowPal?s model is a ?graduated services? approach. For $999, homeowners get an appraisal and market analysis, a photo shoot, a yard sign, a listing on Zillow and Trulia, and the services of an attorney for closing documentation. For a few hundred more, sellers also get what might be the company?s secret sauce: a security service that allows interested buyers in for private showings or open houses. And the $1999 ?ultimate? package gets the listing on the Multiple Listing Service, the industry-controlled database of housing inventory for sale.