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With real estate agents knowing more about their area of expertise than the people paying for their services, do real estate agents exploit their knowledge advantage for their own interests?
\nIn ‘The information advantage of Singapore’s real estate agents’, Prof Sumit Agarwal (Professor of Economics, Finance and Real Estate) shares his views on the issue and discusses the results of his research,\u00a0which shows that real estate agents could tilt the bargaining power in their favour to cause price distortion in the market.
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With real estate agents knowing more about their area of expertise than the people paying for their services, do real estate agents exploit their knowledge advantage for their own interests? 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