Stop Posting Hoboken Homes on the MLS?
Categories: Hoboken Condos
Welcome to the new order.
Here comes REX. We’ve seen discount brokerage models before – remember Exit Realty? Back in the day, they didn’t last. Then along came the new technology, the dominance of Zillow and, eventually Redfin. Many consumers are so enamoured of Redfin’s search site they don’t realize that Redfin, unlike Zillow, is actually a brokerage. Many sellers think Redfin is a great deal because they can list their homes for cheap(er) than a traditional brokerage. Redfin offers a 1.5% listing fee. What they don’t advertise is that you then have to pay a buyer’s agent 2 to 3% on top of that. Purplebricks advertises that it will sell your home for a low fixed fee. In Hoboken, on a $1,000,000 sale, the fee is shown as just under $5,000 as opposed to $25,000 would there have been a 5% commission. Now REX has come along to shake things up yet again.
REX proposes to sell your home for a total 2% fee. That includes the sell and buy sides. Wow, that sounds very attractive. What caught my eye is that they say they do it by NOT listing your property on the MLS. The MLS is the central data base on which just about all homes are listed so all buyer’s agents can search for the right property for a buyer. So REX will reach buyers how? Through their own website? No buyer’s agent involved? No buyer’s agent to compensate. Here is what they say on their site:
We create custom digital campaigns that target specific buyers and then send them to your home’s landing page. From Zillow, to Facebook, to mobile apps, and more. REX online marketing is doing the work, so you don’t have to.
So they will put your property on Zillow, Trulia, Facebook and their website. But – if a buyer sees the home on Zillow, let’s say, and is working with their own agent, the buyer would have to pay that agent! Still, this is a game changer and a very bold move. REX is betting that Zillow can actually do away with the need for an MLS! Wow. That’s a bold position to take. But they may just be right. Only time will tell. I do know that today’s young, educated buyers have a sense that they can do it all themselves because they have access to the data. (What they don’t have is the experience of having done hundreds of deals and having seen thousands of homes.)
REX claims they’ve been in business for 4 years – they are not yet in Hoboken but they are in Jersey City. Here is a REX listing for a $1.5million mulit-family on Barrow Street in Downtown JC. There are others.
What’s in it for the REX agent? They state that they pay a “competitive salary with an equity state in this fast-growing tech company”. Interesting that they pitch themselves as a tech company rather than a real estate company. Also interesting that they seem to be treating the agent as an employee rather than an independent contractor. That makes for serious changes in employer liability for worker’s comp, unemployment insurance, health insurance benefits, etc. which the traditional model brokerages have long skirted. I wonder what they consider competitive given the vast range of incomes made by agents. I’ve been told that Redfin agents make about $3,000 per deal. Here in Hoboken, I would estimate that a decent sales agent makes closer to $13,000 for an average sale. That would mean you’ve have to do some heavy volume to make a living!
One thing is for certain – we are on the brink of some major changes in the way real estate is bought and sold. Be prepared!
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The Hoboken Weekly Wednesday Wrap Up for the Week of March 20th
Categories: Hoboken Condos
For the report with live links:
Week ending March 20th, 2019
- 287 active Hoboken listings
- 265 Condo & Co-op listings,
- 27 Single-family and Multi-family
This Week’s Residential Property Sales & Activity:
- 17 Pending (Deposit Accepted By Owner and Under Contract)
- 11 sold
- 32 New
- 13 Price changes
Studio & 1-Bedroom Properties
78 Active
11 New
4 Pending
- 421 Adams 1L, listed 1/23 for $350k.
- 60 Madison 4L, listed 1/11 for $365k.
- 608 Grand #2, listed 3/12 for $435k.
- 405 4th St. 3A, listed 3/13 for $459k.
2 Sold
- 622 Park 4C, listed 10/18 for $379k, sold for $375k.
- 127 Park #A, listed 10/3 for $449k, sold for $450k.
2-Bedroom Properties
124 Active
18 New
8 Pending
- 403 Monroe 3L, listed 10/25 for $399k.
- 839 Willow #6, listed 3/11 for $549k.
- 82Clinton 4D, listed 3/8 for $849k.
- 61 14th St. #3, listed 3/7 for $870k.
- 325 Willow 3A, listed 2/19 for $925k.
- 61 14th St. #2, listed 1/11 for $994k.
- 2 Constitution 1104, listed 3/6 for $1.075mil.
- 1125 Maxwell 623, listed 10/31 for $1.325mil.
7 sold
- 80 Park 2D, listed 12/14 for $550k, sold for $565k.
- 1000 Hudson 404A, listed 2/5 for $665k, sold for $670k.
- 415 Newark 10G, listed 10/24 for $768k, sold for $810k.
- 701 Monroe 5A, listed 1/11 for $865k, sold for $856k.
- 1400 Hudson 230, listed 1/24 for $999k, sold for $995k.
- 1400 Hudson 604, listed 11/27 for $1.098mil, sold for $1.125mil.
3-Bedroom & larger Properties
63 Active
3 New
5 Pending
- 536 Bloom #2, listed 2/25 for $779k.
- 333 Park #2, listed 10/8 for $1.8mil.
- 115 Grand 4E, listed 2/19 for $1.927mil.
- 115 Grand 5B, listed 12/5 for $2.175mil.
- 115 Grand 5D, listed 12/6 for $2.463mil.
1 Sold
- 1500 Garden 10L, listed 12/23 for $3mil, sold for $3mil.
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The Hoboken Weekly Wednesday Wrap Up for the Week of March 13th
Categories: Hoboken Condos
Week ending March 13th, 2019
For the report with links:
- 287 active Hoboken listings
- 263 Condo & Co-op listings,
- 24 Single-family and Multi-family
This Week’s Residential Property Sales & Activity:
- 20 Pending (Deposit Accepted By Owner and Under Contract)
- 15 sold
- 54 New
- 21 Price changes
Studio & 1-Bedroom Properties
76 Active
16 New
3 Pending
- 401 Adams 1L, listed 3/8 for $415k.
- 80 Bloom 1B, listed 2/19 for $549k.
- 1025 Maxwell 907, listed 2/20 for $849k.
1 Sold
- 1125 Maxwell 507, listed 2/7 for $720k, sold for $712.5k.
2-Bedroom Properties
122 Active
27 New
9 Pending
- 715 Willow #10, listed 1/11 for $470k.
- 131 Monroe 1S, listed 10/16 for $619k.
- 700 1st 5T, listed 10/16 for $640k.
- 700 1st 3D, listed 1/30 for $675k.
- 501 9th 210, listed 11/20 for $710k.
- 1200 Grand 206, listed 3/8 for $779k.
- 129 Harrison #9, listed 2/27 for $949k.
- 1404 Grand 4A, listed 2/6 for $1.124mil.
- 1500 Wash 5D, listed 1/22 for $1.16mil.
10 sold
- 1007 Willow #1, listed 11/19 for $500k, sold for $492k.
- 839 Willow 2S, listed 12/3 for $565k, sold for $552k.
- 609 Jeff 2A, listed 9/10 for $650k, sold for $617k.
- 904 Jeff 5B, listed 1/8 for $770k, sold for $740k.
- 82 Clinton 6E, listed 1/25 for $849k, sold for $845k.
- 80 Park 5E, listed 10/9 for $858k, sold for $805k.
- 1100 Adams 412, listed 10/23 for $949k, sold for $892k.
- 100 Paterson 5A, listed 2/19 for $975k, sold for $975k.
- 1125 Maxwell 527, listed 9/7 for $1.325mil, sold for $1.285mil.
- 1125 Maxwell 407, listed 1/11 for $1.579mil, sold for $1.55mil.
3-Bedroom & larger Properties
65 Active
9 New
8 Pending
- 214 Jackson #1, listed 2/7 for $685k.
- 510 Monrie 301, listed 3/1 for $825k.
- 620 Monroe #2, listed 2/20 for $849k.
- 715 Grand 3B, listed 2/21 for $1.3mil.
- 115 Grand 3D, listed 10/10 for $1.35mil.
- 715 Monroe 200, listed 10/2 for $1.576mil.
- 333 Park #2, listed 10/8 for $1.8mil.
- 115 Grand 2A, listed 10/1 for $2.2mil.
3 Sold
- 123 Willow Terrace, listed 11/15 for $849k, sold for $800k.
- 109 Harrison 302, listed 1/9 for $1mil, sold for $$981k.
- 1100 Maxwell 241, listed 1/7 for $1.55mil, sold for $1.49mil
The information provided in this private transmission is only for the personal, non-commercial use of you, the consumer. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any manner. It may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties you the consumers may be interested in purchasing or renting.
Sales numbers rounded up for convenience. Information is deemed to be reliable but not guaranteed.
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