Comments on: Redfin By The Numbers, March Edition: Redfin Agents Are Tops in King County

By: symnSnits

symnSnits — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:29:07 +0000

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By: TimMcF

TimMcF — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:49:27 +0000

I agree with the post above. It is unfair and frankly disingenuous to claim to be “top agents” while ignoring listings. No other agent in the market measures their success by buyers only. Other than Redfin, everyone is trying to get both buyer and seller business.

I ran the numbers on the NWMLS myself and your agents are NOT top if you include buyers and sellers. Are you somehow insinuating that an agent who works with buyers and sellers is somehow inferior to one who only works with buyers? I would argue that the former is far more valuable to the consumer.

By: Ray Pepper

Ray Pepper — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:07:48 +0000

Kevin the simple fact is this. 500 Realty has the the “Top Agents in Washington State.” Its just your marketing and definition of TOP.

Kevin don’t fight and challenge Red Fin. Just offer services and financial incentives for the consumer to utilize YOU instead of them. Your sales numbers will most likely be the same as ours by the EOY.

But, are you truly offering anything superior to Red Fin? Shop Prop? Handspring? 500 Realty? The 1000′s of Agents now giving 50% of their commission to Buyers?**

I think not…

By: Chris Glew

Chris Glew — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:44:50 +0000

Kevin-
You’re right, our lead agents work with a team of field agents and associate agents.

All the members of the team are focused on delivered great service to our clients, but at the end of the day the lead agent is responsible for the quality of the service.

By: Kevin Lisota

Kevin Lisota — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:19:30 +0000

I am not sure how you can lay claim to your agents being “top agents in King county” based on this data for number of deals. Your agents do more transaction than the average agent, but are supported by a network of field agents who help facilitate the transactions. Those field agents are never given credit in MLS data for a sale. If Febe closed 8 deals, how many field agents helped her in the process? That would lead to an accurate deal count on a per agent basis. As it appears, you are pitting Febe’s “team” against thousands of individual agents who don’t have teams, which isn’t a fair comparison.

There are plenty of other “teams” being represented on the MLS, but sales data for those teams is spread out more evenly across agents on those teams. Unless you are able to reconcile that in your data, I am not sure how anyone can lay claim to being a “top agent in King County”.

By: Redfin by the Numbers: March Brokerage Activity Way Up, Especially on Foreclosures | Redfin Corporate Blog

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:17:04 +0000

[...] calling Redfin by the Numbers. On Monday night, Redfin’s Chris Glew put up data for the Seattle area, the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California, Chicagoland, the Boston area and the Washington [...]

By: Geordie Romer

Geordie Romer — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:43:12 +0000

Thanks, Matt.

I figured the number of offers didn’t necessarily correlate with the closings. But since you are sharing with us the number of offers written, care to share what % are being accepted? The number of offers written seems useless without more context.

By: Matt Goyer

Matt Goyer — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:36:05 +0000

The offers above don’t necessarily match up with the closes because offers from March may not close until April and so will show up on the April report instead of the March one.

It’s hard to know how we compare to other agents in Seattle because I don’t believe any one else is sharing their numbers.

By: Geordie Romer | Leavenworth WA

Geordie Romer | Leavenworth WA — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:21:13 +0000

I can’t tell from the charts above, but it appears as though your agents might only be getting 50% of their offers accepted. Is this accurate? How does this compare to other agents in Seattle?

By: Chris Glew

Chris Glew — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:13:47 +0000

Susan-
Thanks for the comment. We support deals on bank-owned foreclosures, a.k.a REOs. I edited the post to make that more clear.