Comments on: It’s all about location, location … locution?

By: Laurence Tamkin

Laurence Tamkin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:14:57 +0000

I was curious if anyone knows if there is any data regarding whether a seller offering a higher buyer’s agent commission than is typically being offered in the area by other sellers, or an agent “bonus” of some kind, results in a higher priced and/or quicker sale.

Home building companies do this all the time and it seems to work for them.

By: Josh Lee

Josh Lee — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:52:25 +0000

Thanks Cynthia,

I finally found the article, although I accidentally disabled the library’s microfilm machine in the process.

The LA Times article was interesting, although pretty different from the Washington Post article. (Although, now, I’m interested in reading the ads the WaPo article refered to but that will be too much trobule after just finding the LA Times article). If anything, the LA Times article was a lot like the Freaknomics section about real estate although they had different best words to use in an ad.

Its strange that the LA Times didn’t refer to Levitt’s work, but then I have to wonder if Levitt has received an undue amount of attention for his work. From the LA Times article, it seems somebody else already the same insights Levitt had had about real estate agents but years earlier.

By: Josh Lee

Josh Lee — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:32:48 +0000

Cynthia,

Thanks for the link, but in order to avoid paying that fee to read it online, I tried going to my local library and going through the microfilm to read it. But, I couldn’t find it. Dec. 10 was a saturday, and the LATimes usually doles out its real estate advice on sunday in its RE section. But, I couldn’t find the article either in the Dec 11 edition.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:31:40 +0000

Hello,
The LA Times archives articles after a certain period of time, and you have to buy them. It was published, Dec. 10, 2006 and titled Locution, Locution, Locution. Here is a link to the archived article: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1177268141.html?dids=1177268141:1177268141&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+10%2C+2006&author=Ann+Brenoff&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=K.1&desc=Maybe+it%27s+locution%2C+locution%2C+locution

Regards,
Cynthia

By: Josh Lee

Josh Lee — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:52:39 +0000

I’d really like to read the LATimes article, but the link doesn’t work anymore. When was that article written?

By: Ms.Betty

Ms.Betty — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:12:04 +0000

I have Commercial Ocean Front Acreage for sale, all I hear about is houses– what about land???