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If you are a home builder you will want to invite our graduates to become active members of your co-broker network, because our graduates understand how to earn the trust of both your onsite agents and their clients.  If you are new home shopper who will consider a new home or a resale, ask your Realtor if they have earned the new home co-broker designation (NHCB).  If not, ask if they are trained to represent you and if so what were they trained to do. Either way, if you are moving to or within Florida, Texas, California, Nevada, Arizona or Maryland, search NHCB to see if you can find Realtor who can represent you for a new home purchase at the same level they are trained to represent you for a resale. Hint: Their knowledge of construction is not a factor. You want to get your construction questions answered by the builder.

Think licensed home inspectors. Will the home builders you are working with allow your buyer to bring in a home inspe...

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If there is one thing Realtors are not trained to do, is sell a resale for the price it is listed. They are trained to negotiate real estate sales prices, and the fact that the base sales price of a new home is fixed, is a serious deterrent to them farming for new home shoppers, much less learning how to convert renovation-resistant resale shoppers to new homes, which about 40 per cent of last years new homes buyers did, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Realtors don't need to learn construction. They need to learn to let the onsite professional do their job.

So, one of the first things Realtors need to learn is how to become sensitive to the renovation shopper who is having trouble making a buying decision. 

Preconstruction sales provide listing opportunities that would not otherwise exist, and pending commissions that you might have missed. Realtor Mary Carpousis knows the difference.