Buyers count on their real estate agents to help them with all of the complex pieces throughout the home buying process. When buying a home, you will likely be working with a variety of real estate specialists including professionals for:

• Home inspection
• Legal representation
• Homeowner’s insurance

You trust that your agent will point you in the direction of qualified professions – but are you sure about that? If a professional offering homeowners insurance for example, can get on the referral list of a popular real estate agent, they stand to make a very nice profit. Because of this relationship, many real estate professional will offer agents financial incentives for referrals.

This is not to say that all real estate agents take compensation for referrals. This is not to say that when an agent does receive compensation that he or she is not referring you to the person they feel is the best for you. But isn’t that something you’d like to know before you sign on with an agent?

At Buyer’s Advantage Group, we have strict guidelines for the Raleigh real estate professionals that we recommend and never take compensation for referring clients. Instead of putting our best interests first, our goal is to provide our clients with Triangle real estate professionals that offer competitive choices and that have exemplary service records.

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