Many Springfield, MA area REALTORS® have joined HungryAgents.com® so that they can compete for the business of sellers and buyers of real estate in the area. Our Member REALTORS® can bid the total commission rate they will charge for selling your home including what rate they will pay the buyer's agent. They can also bid for buyers with the percentage of the buyer's agent commission they earn that they will give you as buyer at the closing
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The average commission rate bid for sellers in the Springfielod area is 4.75%. The average percentage bid of the buyer's agent commission earned that will be given to the buyer is 39.50%. These are the averages, not the lowest bids! All bids are for full service so you can compare them. Sellers and buyers have recently been receiving an average of four bids.
The Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of three counties: Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin. The Springfield MSA has a population of 682,657. It is also part of a larger metropolitan area known as the Northeast megalopolis. In an economic and cultural partnership with Hartford, Connecticut, the Springfield-Hartford region constitutes New England's Knowledge Corridor — the second-largest concentration of institutions of higher learning in New England, after Greater Boston.
Springfield is the economic center of western Massachusetts. Greater Springfield is largest concentration of retail establishments in the area. Springfield is also home to the largest Fortune 500 company in Massachusetts. Baystate Health is the city's largest employer with over 10,000 employees.
With its high concentration of institutes of higher learning and large medical centers such as Baystate Medical Center, the area has a number of biotech firms. Springfield also has a regional Shriners Hospital. As of 2009 Greater Springfield ranks as the 24th most important high-tech center in the United States with almost 14,000 high-tech jobs.
The city of Springfield is most commonly known as the birthplace of basketball. In 1891, James Naismith, a physical education teacher in Springfield, invented the sport at the Springfield YMCA, now Springfield College, to fill the gap between the football and baseball seasons. The sport quickly became popular worldwide.
Area demographic facts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The average commission rate bid for sellers in the Springfielod area is 4.75%. The average percentage bid of the buyer's agent commission earned that will be given to the buyer is 39.50%. Sellers and buyers have recently been receiving an average of four bids.
