Homebot is a registered brokerage called Homebot Real Estate Services, also known as HBRE. This allows us to work with MLS providers and secure nationwide listings in our home search product.
To ensure we're compliant, and MLS providers continue to work with us, we must include the listing agent on all listings in the Home Search experience. Continue reading to find out how that affects lenders and agents on and off Homebot.
How this works for:
Real estate agents need a lender co-sponsor to access or provide Home Search to their database. We're sharing more on that here.
Real estate agents on Homebot with a lender co-sponsor
Real estate agents on Homebot with a lender co-sponsor will receive all direct messages related to real estate through Home Search. The lender co-sponsor will get direct messages about all financing-related questions.
The listing agent will not be notified in this case.
Learn more about how Home Search works for real estate agents here.
Lenders without an agent co-sponsor
The lender will get all financing-related direct messages, and the listing agent will get all real estate-related direct messages via email from [email protected].
The lender will also see this engagement in their activity feed shown below:
Listing agents on or off Homebot
Some interesting things can happen when a listing agent receives the email displayed above and is not yet on Homebot:
Buyers can have their property questions answered quickly by the agent who knows the listing best.
Lenders can connect with new agents who could turn into potential partners on and off Homebot. Join this weekly workshop to learn how to pitch agents.
Agents can organically learn about Homebot and get potential leads for free.