{"id":1978,"date":"2016-10-13T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T21:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2019-02-06T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T23:24:15","slug":"trump-good-for-housing-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/trump-good-for-housing-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Real Estate Agents Say Trump Would Be Good for the Housing Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wanted to see what the best in the real estate business thought of the election, so we used our algorithm to find the top real estate agents across America and we asked them if they thought the results of the upcoming Presidential election could make an impact on the nation\u2019s housing market.<\/p>\n<p>In HomeLight&#8217;s\u00a0on-going <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/top-agent-insights\">Top\u00a0Agent Insights Survey<\/a>, they answered us.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to tap into the expertise of the best agents out there, we run the Top Agent Insights Survey. We use our proprietary algorithm to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/how-it-works\">compare real estate agents on their historical transaction data<\/a>\u00a0to find\u00a0the top performing real estate agents across the United States, then we interview them.<\/p>\n<p>Once we had our list of top real estate agents, we gave over 100 of them\u00a0a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 as \u201cnegative impact,\u201d 5 as \u201cno impact,\u201d and 10 as \u201cpositive impact.\u201d Real estate agents were able to select a number from 1-10 that answered these two questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cHow do you feel a Hillary Clinton presidency would impact the US housing market?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHow do you feel a Donald Trump presidency would impact the US housing market?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We labeled all responses under five as the percent of top agents who think the candidate will have a negative effect, and all responses over five as the percent of top agents who think the candidate will have a positive effect. All responses at five are top real estate agents who think the candidate will have no impact.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232.png\" alt=\"47% of top real estate agents think Trump would be good for the housing market vs. just 25% who think Clinton would be positive\" width=\"938\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232.png 938w, https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232-768x491.png 768w, https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232-64x41.png 64w, https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232-128x82.png 128w, https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232-192x123.png 192w, https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232-432x276.png 432w, https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232-775x496.png 775w, https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232-500x320.png 500w, https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232-800x512.png 800w, https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016-Candidate-Impact-on-Housing-e1476393093232-422x270.png 422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>47% of top real estate agents believe Trump\u2019s effect on the housing market will be positive, while only 25% of agents believe Clinton will be positive. In comparison, 25% of agents think Trump will be negative for the housing market, while 41% of agents think Clinton will have a negative impact.<\/p>\n<p><b>Some of the best real estate agents in the country suggest that Donald Trump would be better for the housing market than Hillary Clinton if he were elected President of the United States.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Tweet us. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HomeLightApp\">@HomeLightApp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top real estate agents weighed in on the 2016 Presidential election and 47% think Trump would have a positive impact on the U.S. housing 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