Some provinces are now allowing open houses, with new rules in place, after regulators clamped down on showings amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver said earlier this month that open houses will resume, with warnings to potential house hunters. Visitors to open houses there can expect to see signs displaying health precautions, use hand-washing stations and sign a visitor log for contact tracing.
Before entering, potential home buyers and sellers answer questionnaires and sign waivers about any symptoms or exposure to COVID-19. Sellers who agree to the open house must sanitize the home.The Real Estate Council of Ontario has been discouraging unnecessary in-person private showings as well as open houses. But RECO doesn't have the power to require agents to get a tenant's consent.
"I've got little shoe covers in the back of my care. My realtor tools have certainly changed," says Otitoju, an agent with Platinum Realty Specialists. For sellers, it reassures them that those who end up at in-person showings are interested in buying, he says. "The most valuable thing you have is your time," says Hitt, saying that online tours cut down on travelling.
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