Home Interest Rates & Your Database! #tomferryshow
Feb 13, 2024
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Tom Ferry discusses the potential drop in home interest rates to 5% with guest David Childers. They emphasize the importance of doubling down on your database and sphere as a real estate agent. Topics include strategies for generating repeat and referral business, assessing contacts in your phone, and utilizing AI-driven marketing strategies. They also explore the need for empathy in understanding the question 'How's the Market?' and maximizing opportunities in the real estate market by reaching out to contacts and front loading marketing efforts.
The predicted drop in home interest rates to 5% presents a significant opportunity for real estate agents to focus on their database and sphere for repeat and referral business.
Real estate agents should approach questions about the market with empathy and understand the underlying motivations behind them in order to provide relevant and helpful responses.
Deep dives
The Year of the Five: Predictions for 2024
In this podcast episode, the host discusses the predictions for the real estate market in 2024. The main ideas presented are that interest rates are expected to be around 5%, there will be approximately 5.5 million homes sold, and there will be a 5% across-the-board appreciation in home values. These predictions indicate a positive outlook for the real estate market in the upcoming year.
Leveraging Your Database for Repeat and Referral Business
The host emphasizes the importance of leveraging one's database for repeat and referral business. They suggest reflecting on what marketing strategies worked in 2023 to get referrals and repeat business. Additionally, they advise setting intentions for 2024 by focusing on the number of transactions that can be generated from one's database. By maintaining a strong relationship with clients and sphere, real estate agents can maximize their opportunities in the market.
Understanding Clients' Questions about the Market
The host discusses the common questions people ask about the real estate market, such as 'How's the market?' They explain that these questions are often driven by concerns about the safety of their equity, whether home values will go up or down, and how the market will impact their future plans. The host encourages agents to approach these questions with empathy and to understand the underlying motivations behind them. By doing so, agents can provide more relevant and helpful responses.
Home interest rates are taking a turn, and for you, this is a huge opportunity!
If you tuned in to my recent BIG Kickoff webinar, you might remember myself and David Childers calling this year “The Year of the 5.” That’s because we’re predicting that home interest rates are going to drop to 5%! Beautiful right?
Absolutely, but what does that mean for you as a real estate agent? In this episode of the Tom Ferry Show, I’ll show you why 5% home interest rates mean that you need to be doubling down on your database and sphere.
I’m sharing some strategies and info for touching base with past clients to generate repeat and referral business all year long, so watch or listen here!
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