{"id":2272,"date":"2019-03-07T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2019-03-07T19:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T00:22:23","slug":"broker-reputation-key-in-buyers-decisionmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/broker-reputation-key-in-buyers-decisionmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Broker Reputation key in Buyers&#8217; decisionmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>When recreational land buyers are picking a broker to help them find the perfect property, the broker&rsquo;s reputation is the top factor in the decision-making process, according to a survey by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landthink.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LandThink.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landthink.com\/pulse-buyers-sellers-choose-based-on-reputation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey of LandThink readers,<\/a> 59.2 percent of respondents listed the broker&rsquo;s reputation as the most important factor. That certainly explains why the brokers in the PotlatchDeltic Preferred Broker network are so successful &ndash; they are highly experienced experts who have built reputations as the people to see for recreational property.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in second in the survey results, at 48.2 percent, was the personality of the salesperson, followed by sales fee\/commission (45.9 percent) and referrals or references (36.8 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of these responses come back to the quality of the professional a buyer is going to work with. And there are some simple questions you can ask to determine whether a broker will be a good fit, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landthink.com\/how-to-choose-a-listing-agent-for-your-rural-land\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Goode of the Preferred Broker network wrote about in a LandThink blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among Jonathan&rsquo;s tips:<\/p>\n<ul><li>Ask family and friends.<\/li>\n<li>Do online searches for &ldquo;land for sale&rdquo; in your geographic area of interest, and see what brokers are listing property there with a quality marketing presence.<\/li>\n<li>And, check for the broker&rsquo;s experience and professional designations.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Odds are that when you look for recreational property in Minnesota, Idaho, Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi, you&rsquo;ll see that the PotlatchDeltic Preferred Brokers are among the top land brokers in each of those states. In fact, 11 brokerages in the Preferred Broker network were named to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landreport.com\/americas-best-brokerages-summer-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Land Report&rsquo;s &ldquo;America&rsquo;s Best Brokerages 2018&rdquo; list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And not only are these brokers successful, they have built their businesses by doing things the right way and focusing on the customer first. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/contact.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Call one of them today to get your own process started!<\/a><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When recreational land buyers are picking a broker to help them find the perfect property, the broker&rsquo;s reputation is the top factor in the decision-making process, according to a survey by LandThink.com. In the survey of LandThink readers, 59.2 percent of respondents listed the broker&rsquo;s reputation as the most important factor. That certainly explains why&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/broker-reputation-key-in-buyers-decisionmaking\/\">more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Broker Reputation key in Buyers&#8217; decisionmaking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[280,19,12],"tags":[33,464,41,593,595],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potlatchdelticlandsales.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}