Real estate agents, are your clients showing you bad news? Tell us!

CALL FOR TESTIMONIALS. With the drop in rates and prices, the morale of real estate agents is rising this fall. To keep you smiling, why not share with Capital readers the thousand and one tasty anecdotes that your profession can offer?

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How are real estate agents doing this fall, which marks the sad second anniversary of an unprecedented sector crisis? Not so bad, according to the latest quarterly survey published last month by the real estate agency search engine Superimmo. Carried out among a thousand professionals, this survey shows a 10-point surge, compared to June, in the morale of real estate agents, with more than two thirds of them saying they optimistic for the French market. There is also optimism at their own level, with 68.3% of respondents having confidence in the future of their agency. That’s an increase of 10 points, again, compared to June.

This improvement can be attributed to real estate loan rates which, after having quadrupled between the beginning of 2022 and the beginning of 2024, have fallen back to 3.40% on average over 20 yearsat the beginning of November, continuing the decline initiated since the start of the year. With sales prices also trending downward, this is enough to encourage a growing number of candidates for property ownership to push through the doors of real estate agencies in order to visit this showcase property which is absolutely their favorite.

Funny situations and unusual visits

Visits, during which you can see some green and some unripe ones! Whether your client is a buyer or seller, you, a real estate agent, inevitably enter into the privacy of their family and become a discreet witness to situations that are, if not delicate, at least funny. Here a couple who sell their house by throwing dishes in each other’s faces, there a siblings who constantly part with their great-aunt’s millstone in Louveciennes to pocket a million euros… No one doubt that your visits are full of surprises andtasty anecdotes of all kinds.

From the stuffed cat enthroned above the front door to the train which runs below the garden, and which the owners had carefully hidden from you by presenting their house to you on a Saturday, through to the sellers who pretend to be real estate agents with a relative success, tell us your unusual visits and experiences ! Do not hesitate to testify, anonymously if you wish, to the editorial staff of Capitalat the following address: [email protected].