Area Realtors — Practicing What’s Preached — Meridian, Boise, Eagle, Middleton, Star, Nampa, ID
Meridian, Boise, Eagle, Middleton, Star, Nampa, ID Residential Real Estate Pros: Doing not Saying
Meridian, Boise, Eagle, Middleton, Star, Nampa, ID Residential Real Estate and “Doing What I Do”
For Meridian, Boise, Eagle, Middleton, Star, Nampa, ID Realtors®, Doing not Saying is in the Stats
“Do as I say, not as I do!” is the famous line sometimes imputed to parents, but always meant to indicate that the speaker either
- a) is honest (and willing to admit making plenty of mistakes); or else
- b) is a hypocrite.
In that vein, for Meridian, Boise, Eagle, Middleton, Star, Nampa, ID Realtors® like myself, this summer’s statistical inclusion of a key “tell” about residential real estate professionals can be taken as a point of pride. Among the “Highlights from the NAR Member Profile” is one statistic that indicates that we Realtors are — by overwhelming numbers — doing rather than just saying.
The statistic under discussion was bullet-pointed under a heading dealing with the demographic characteristics of the nation’s Realtors. As a demonstration of “doing as I do,” American Realtors own their own residences: fully 89% of them do. Additionally, 43% own a secondary property as well. Also unsurprising were most of the other statistics, although one of them (“95% of Realtors reported using a smartphone daily”) might leave readers wondering how the 5% who don’t are able to function in today’s world.
On another front, the National Association found that more than 1.4 million housing starts were launched in June, which was quite a leap over the 763,000 new homes sold in May. Also, a total of 4.16 million housing units of all kinds were sold in June — fewer than the year before, but by less than a million units. That the median sales price was more than $410,000 demonstrated a market that stubbornly “held firm” near the record established a year earlier.
I hope you will remember to call me whenever you decide to see how our Meridian, Boise, Eagle, Middleton, Star, Nampa, ID residential real estate is faring! 208–960–5205
