30% Real Estate Commission Rebates

When you buy a home in Austin with 360 Real Estate we rebate 30% of our Buyers’ Agent commission back to you.  Why do we do this? – Over the past 10 years technology used in real estate purchases has significantly brought down the time and cost of working with a home buyer.

A National Association of Realtors (NAR) study says 89% of home buyers now use the internet for information when starting their home search.  We’ll go out on a limb and speculate that in tech savvy Central Texas, close to 100% of people buying a home in Austin use the internet for their home search.  Additional data from NAR shows 66% of internet searching home buyers drove by or viewed a home they saw online and 41% of buyers first found their home on the internet.

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Technology Has Changed the Home Buying Process

Home buyers no longer need to rely solely on an agent to find them a home. Home search technology is widely available on thousands of websites that provide data feeds from the local realtor Multiple Listing Services (MLS).  On this site we offer the ability to perform custom searches by Austin area cities, communities, or zip codes, as well as an interactive map search that allows you to see Austin homes for sale on a map view and sort by customized criteria.

Listings of Austin homes for sale now offer up 25 pictures of the property. Virtual tours are frequently available online, and internet mapping technology from Google and Bing lets home buyers get a satellite views of homes, and take a virtual walk through the neighborhood.  You no longer need to visit a house to find out if train tracks run behind the back fence, or the listing photos were tactfully shot around power lines running through the side yard. Many houses are ruled out without having to actually go look at it with your real estate agent.

In today’s world of busy dual income households with schedules filled by work and family obligations, most people don’t have the time or desire to climb in a car with a real estate agent and drive around looking at houses all day.  We’ve found they much prefer to first check out Austin communities and properties of interest online, then they’ll frequently drive by a house or neighborhood to check it out, and if they are still interested then they’ll call us to us schedule an appointment to meet and go inside the house.

As Realtors, We’re More Efficient Too

Technology available today has allowed us as real estate agents in Austin to become much more efficient in serving our home buyer clients.  Navigation systems allow us to easily find properties and meet clients at them regardless of where we are coming from.  We take calls, respond to emails, and update listings from smart phones and tablets while we’re out in the field.  We use secure electronic document technology to prepare contracts for clients buying a home in Austin and have them sign them digitally – without actually having to print or bring them to the client, the listing agent, or the title company.

You Get a 30% Cash Rebate of Our Commission

The average the number of homes physically shown to people buying a home in Austin has come down, and the efficiency of the contract and negotiation process has increased dramatically. The time and cost of working with a home buyer has come down, thus we are able to offer our clients a 30% commission rebate when they buy a home with us.

We encourage you to use our interactive map search features to browse Austin area listings of homes for sale.  You can also click to quick link searches from our communities or neighborhood pages. You can register with our site to get automatic updates of new listings and price changes that meet your personal custom search criteria.