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ZipRealty, the national real estate brokerage that gives rebates to buyers and commission discounts to sellers, will begin posting customer satisfaction ratings for its agents on its Web site starting Sunday.
The company has been surveying customers since it launched nine years ago and it will add all of those ratings to the Web site, ZipRealty Vice President Leslie Tyler told me today. But it will only post customer-satisfaction scores for agents who have been rated by at least three customers.
It’s important to note that none of these surveys are anonymous. The agent gets the results and knows precisely what the buyer thought (This might dissuade some folks from being truly honest. ZipRealty says its overall customer approval rating is 95%.
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November 5th, 2008
Today, the word “light-green” can intend anything from the description of a product to the description of a lifestyle. All the same, many surveys live laying claim to have rated the top dark-greenest cities in America despite this term’s lack of definition. Indeed, how can the top “light-greenest” cities be numerically ordered when the “greenish” [...]
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Juster Development has acquired 100 and 120 White Plains Road in Tarrytown, N.Y., from SL Green in a $48 million deal. Read more »
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The Los Angeles office of Hines announced that Union Bank of California has signed a lease extension for approximately 345,000 square feet of office and retail branch space in Union Bank Plaza (pictured). Read more »
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A joint venture between URDANG and Onyx Equities L.L.C. has sold the 320,000-square-foot Parker Corporate Center in White Plains, N.Y., for $81.8 million, a gain of nearly 20 percent over the November 2006 purchase price of $68.5 million. Read more »