

Founder I Sales Director
Buying a home is a significant financial transaction and a major decision. To avoid disappointment and costly mistakes, it is prudent to engage an expert to help you navigate through the complicated home search and purchase process. For most buyers, having a real estate agent by their side that has their best interest at heart instills peace of mind and makes the home buying experience enjoyable. In this article, we shall look at the advantages of having a real estate agent when you are buying a home.
Why use a real estate Agent to buy a home
- Save money on your home purchase
- Get access to property listings faster
- They have extensive knowledge of what is currently available
- Personalize your shopping support.
- Access professional negotiating power.
- Get paperwork and process assistance.
1. Save Money on your home purchase
A real estate agent can help you save money in many other ways. They have an in-depth knowledge of the local market and are aware of the current market situation. They can help you avoid paying too much for a home. When you are ready to put an offer for home, your agent can help you determine an appropriate offer price, based on the fair market value of the home and market conditions. Your agent can also help you adjust your offer price to account for any patent defects on the property.
A negotiation skill is one on the attributes of good agents. An agent can use negotiation strategies to get you a better deal. Through their experiences, they are aware of market trends and they know the local market better than you do. So they can let you know when it’s reasonable to push for a better deal. They also ensure that you are fulfilling all contractual obligations so you don’t end up in a legal or financial mess.
Also, there are a lot of deadlines to keep track of in a home purchase. It is the duty of an agent to ensure that you are fulfilling your end of the deal, which can help you avoid costly blunders.
2. Gain Access to listings faster

As a buyer, you are likely to search for your potential home only from public real estate portals like Property Finder and Bayut. Real Estate agents are on the ground all the time and know what is on the market and can often spot new homes that have come on faster than you can. They can get a property that is not yet listed through their networking with other agents. Through their connections, they may know about properties coming on the market, before they show up on the property portals.
3. Extensive Knowledge of what's available
Agents usually have a better knowledge of the inventory in your area. If you are looking for a very specific home, you will have a better chance of finding it when you work with an agent. This will save you a lot of time.
4. Personalize your shopping support
The home purchase process can be overwhelming especially if you are a first-time buyer. Even experienced buyers struggle to keep up with all the details. A good buyer’s agent spends their time searching for a property that fit your criteria, negotiating and drafting contracts, advocating on your behalf, and generally overseeing the process. Having this experienced agent by your side can be a great relief.
5. Access professional negotiating power

Buying a home is exciting, stressful, and often emotional. If you do the negotiating, without negotiating skills or experience, your passion could compromise your ability to get what you want. Agents know how to structure requests in a way that makes sellers more likely to oblige, and they can do all the negotiating while maintaining a good rapport with the seller.
6. Get paperwork and process assistance
Home purchase contracts can have a lot of pages, and they can include multiple contingencies. Agents have tools that make signing loads of paperwork much less tedious. Many agents use digital signatures, email delivery systems, and mobile signing capability, so you won’t have to worry about going into an office multiple times to sign documents.