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This study examines the role of real estate brokers in the market for residential housing. It is shown that brokers obtain higher prices for the homes they sell and implicitly shift part of the brokerage-commission burden to the buyer. Evidence also is found to suggest that buyers who search the housing market with the assistance of a real estate broker have a higher demand for housing than buyers who shop the housing market without the help of a broker. Real estate agents thus appear to be salesmen for the housing industry and to generate effects very similar to that of advertising.The authors are in the lThe term Realtor(R) is a registered trademark of the National Association of Realtor(R). 2The effects of the brokerage industry reported in this study stem from the lack of information in the housing market. The brokerage industry in our view represents a market response to this lack of information. For another view which examines the brokerage industry from the perspective of a monopoly pricing model, see Wachter (1985).

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of the announcement of a new airport hub on housing prices near the airport. While numerous studies of airport noise have found that high noise levels reduce property values, few have been able to measure the announcement effect on values. The results indicate that after controlling to extraneous influences, housing property prices in a 2.5 mile band from the Greensboro/High Point/Winston Salem metropolitan airport declined approximately 9.2% in the post-announcement period. In the next 1.5-mile band, house prices declined approximately 5.7% in the post-announcement period. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2006Airport noise, Aircraft noise, Property values, Housing prices, Residential property,

This study explores the role of the real estate broker in the housing market. A model of the demand for broker services by both sellers and buyers is developed and conditional logit estimates are presented. Evidence relating to the effects of the brokerage industry on housing market transactions also is presented. Brokers do not seem to affect the prices of the houses they sell. But they do influence the level of housing consumption by buyers. Copyright American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.