Summary: (http://www.patrickwiscombe.com/images/subscribeinitunes300x38.jpg)(http://www.patrickwiscombe.com/images/patrick4.jpg) In this edition of the Utah Real Estate Podcast (http://patrickwiscombe.com/category/utah-real-estate-podcasts/), we talked about: * Is hiring a real estate agent really necessary? * Your local real estate market conditions. * For sale by owner properties * Good information and a negotiating backbone Press the 'PLAY' button to listen to Utah Real Estate Podcast #1: Hiring a Real Estate Agent - Part 1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOUR CALL TO ACTION If you're looking to buy or sell a house in Utah, please call or text me (Patrick Wiscombe) at (801) 602-5850. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cool Voice Guy: Information you need, the podcasts you love, this is the Patrick Wiscombe.com podcast network. Cool Voice Guy: It's real estate news you can use, this is the Utah Real Estate (http://patrickwiscombe.com/category/utah-real-estate-podcast/) podcast. Giving you free expert advice and tips if you're looking to buy or sell a house. And now, here are your hosts, Roger Zundel and Patrick Wiscombe Patrick Wiscombe (sponsorship billboard): The Utah Real Estate (http://patrickwiscombe.com/category/utah-real-estate-podcast/) podcast is brought to you by Weichert Realtors at the Rockies. If you are looking to buy or sell a house in Utah, please call Patrick Wiscombe at area code 801-602-5850. That number again is area code 801-602-5850. Patrick Wiscombe: It's the Utah Real Estate (http://patrickwiscombe.com/category/utah-real-estate-podcast/) podcast, episode number one. My name is Patrick Wiscombe. Thank you for tuning us in and taking us along wherever and however you're accessing the podcast today. You can pick up the podcast on AtTheRockies.com and of course you can pick it up on my website Patrick Wiscombe.com (http://patrickwiscombe.com). Coming up on today's edition of the podcast, we're going to be talking about real estate agents and why you need one. Joining me for the podcast via Skype this morning is Rogers Zundel, the president and owner of Weichert Realtors at the Rockies in American Fork, Utah. Good morning sir. Roger: Good morning Patrick. Patrick: What are the benefits of using a real estate agent? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOUR CALL TO ACTION If you're looking to buy or sell a house in Utah, please call or text me (Patrick Wiscombe) at (801) 602-5850. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger: One of the things is just staying in touch with current market conditions. You know, people pay attention to what the market is doing on a sporadic basis and you may have heard some information three months ago and maybe that was credible information and maybe it wasn't at that time and you think you know what the market is doing. The real estate market is like everything else it's pretty volatile and you need to have your finger on the pulse as to what's going on today. Recently, real estate is ticking up and we are listing homes in the office now and they're under contract within a week and prices where we had to be a little bit aggressive before as far as getting the seller to see that he had to be reasonable about his price or he wasn't going to sell his house. You know, sellers now are getting full price offers and a little bit above price offers and that's new just within the last week or two. Patrick: I think the perception out there is that offers on homes are not going for the full listing price, whereas I think people's mindset is I can ask whatever I can get for it now. Roger: Well,
