Happy Women’s History Month!

An agent is a business owner, as we are all self-employed. Many of us are single parents balancing the needs of our clients and the needs of our kids. We bring a combination of economic knowledge, marketing skills, relationship building that super-powers our negotiating prowess, an eye for design, and emotional intelligence to maneuver the huge transitions that are part of buying and selling homes.

 

We are independent thinkers balancing the friendly competition within our complex industry ecosystem. For many of us, Real Estate is a second or even third career, and we bring a variety of skills earned along the disparate paths we traveled. In fact, the average real estate agent in the United States is a 54-year-old woman, and she has seen and done some things her professional façade may obscure.

 

Single-women homebuyers are the second largest group of homebuyers after couples. Often divorced or older than couple-buyers, my single women clients always surprise and impress me. They are making tough decisions on their own. Decisions that benefit their kids or aging parents. Earning less for the same jobs done by men, they take risks in the name of long-term gain. They are agile in a way that only a full-time working mom who also volunteers for a local nonprofit, is a hands-on parent, gardens, cooks, and cares for extended family can be.

 

So, to the women who make the real estate industry run, and the women using real estate to make their dreams come true, I wish you a Happy Women’s History Month.