What is an Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR)——and why should you use one?

The answer is really quite simple.

When you work with an ABR®-designated real estate professional, your interests as a buyer become the interests of your ABR®.
That’s your ABR®’s business: working with buyer-clients like you to help make the home-buying experience as go as smoothly as possible.

Your ABR® can help you:

Define what you want and need in a home
Learn about important neighborhood resources and market information
Find the home that best meets your wants and needs
Formulate your offer
Develop your negotiation strategy
Keep track of all the details throughout the entire transaction—to closing and beyond

When looking to buy a new home, first look for an Accredited Buyer’s Representative.

Real estate professionals who earned the ABR® Designation have taken special training that focuses on you, the homebuyer, to help guide you successfully through what could be the most complicated transaction in your life. More than one million peoples in the United States are licensed to sell Real estate. Of those licensees, fewer than 2 percent are Accredited Buyer Representatives.

The ABR® designation is awarded by the Real Estate Buyer’s Agent Council (REBAC), and is the only designation of its type recognized by the National Association of REALTORS®. Established in 1988 and now numbering more than 50,000 members, REBAC is the world’s largest organization of real estate professionals specializing in buyer representation.