{"id":29733,"date":"2014-11-07T14:03:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T18:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewm.com\/internalblog\/?p=29733"},"modified":"2014-11-07T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T18:03:37","slug":"2014-profile-of-home-buyers-and-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=29733","title":{"rendered":"2014 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most home buyers, the purchase of real estate is one of the largest financial transactions they will make. Buyers purchase a home not only for the desire to own a home of their own, but also because of changes in jobs, family situations, and the need for a smaller or larger living area. This annual survey conducted by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS\u00ae of recent home buyers and sellers provides insight into detailed information about their experiences with this important transaction. Here are highlights from the latest report.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thirty-three percent of recent home buyers were first time buyers, which is still suppressed from the historical norm of 40 percent among primary residence buyers.<\/li>\n<li>For 43 percent of home buyers, the first step in the home-buying process was looking online for properties and 12 percent of home buyers first looked online for information about the home buying process.<\/li>\n<li>Ninety-two percent of buyers use the internet in some way in their home search process and 50 percent of buyers use a mobile website or application in their home search.<\/li>\n<li>Real estate agents were viewed as a useful information source by 98 percent of buyers who used an agent while searching for a home.<\/li>\n<li>The typical home buyer searched for 10 weeks and viewed 10 homes\u2014this is two weeks shorter than the previous year\u2019s report.<\/li>\n<li>Seventy percent of home sellers only contacted one agent before selecting the one to assist with their home sale.<\/li>\n<li>The share of home sellers who sold their home without the assistance of a real estate agent was nine percent. Forty-four percent knew the buyer prior to home purchase. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtor.org\/presentations\/presentation-2014-profile-of-home-buyers-and-sellers\">Full presentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most home buyers, the purchase of real estate is one of the largest financial transactions they will make. Buyers purchase a home not only for the desire to own a home of their own, but also because of changes in jobs, family situations, and the need for a smaller or larger living area. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[9,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}