{"id":24717,"date":"2015-10-08T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ratemarketplace.com\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2019-01-02T20:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T20:05:44","slug":"real-estate-agents-are-jumping-ship-and-becoming-free-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/insurance\/homeowners-insurance\/real-estate-agents-are-jumping-ship-and-becoming-free-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Agents Are Jumping Ship and Becoming Free Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More and more real estate agents are switching brokerage firms to pursue better deals and commissions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of brand loyalty,\u201d said Billy Rose, an agent and co-founder of the Agency in Beverly Hills, CA. \u201cA lot of times they become mercenaries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Agency is a firm that attracts many real estate agents because of its marketing support. While most firms have one or two marketing people, the Agency has 20 for tasks like posting listing photos. This kind of support gives agents more time to close more deals.<\/p>\n<p>Image via Flickr\/Mark Moz<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-rise-of-the-mercenary-real-estate-agent-1444225224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue to original source.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more real estate agents are switching brokerage firms to pursue better deals and commissions. \u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of brand loyalty,\u201d said Billy Rose,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}