• Eighty-nine percent of buyers purchased their home through a real estate agent or broker—a share that has steadily increased from 69 percent in 2001.
• Forty-one percent of buyers found their agent through a referral from a friend or family member and 9 percent used an agent they had used before to buy or sell a home.
• About two-thirds of recent buyers only interviewed one agent before they found the agent they worked with.
• Nearly nine in ten buyers would use their agent again or recommend to others.
• For more information from the annual Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, click here >