Why good real estate agents are becoming indispensable

Millennials now make up the largest group of first-time home buyers at 66 percent. More real estate information is available online today than there has ever been before; everything from public records and photos to home value estimates are all at one’s fingertips.

Given this, and the rise of tech “disruptors,” one might expect that the use of real estate agents would be on the decline. However, despite this younger demographic of buyers and plethora of available information, only 12 percent of all home buyers navigated the home buying process without an agent and only 8…