For most people, hiring a real estate agent is strictly a business arrangement. The agent is there to forward listings of Edmonton condos that meet your requirements, arrange for tours of these condos and then negotiate on your behalf with the seller. However, if you live in a big city real estate agents can take on part of the role as social director by organizing condo tours for you and your friends. To learn more about what a condo tour is and how you can be a part of one, read on.

A condo tour is a relatively new invention. The usual method of introducing clients to potential St. Lawrence Market condos is to arrange a private tour through the seller or the seller's agent. However, several factors have made it necessary to change this practice. Firstly, agents have more clients now than before and therefore less time to devote to each one. Secondly most clients have heavy work schedules and can only spare a few hours here and there to see condos. This makes it necessary to compress the process a little bit.

Hence the condo tour was born. In a condo tour, a real estate agent will set up consecutive tours of all of his or her Scarborough condos that are up for sale as well as the condos of any other participating agents. Agents often pair up with other agents from the same area to conduct condo tours. A group of buyers who are all interested in condos is then collected and taken on a grand tour of all the properties that are for sale. This saves everyone a lot of time and helps agents publicize the properties they're selling on the owners' behalf.

Though the condo tour is ostensibly a business arrangement that helps match condominiums in downtown Toronto that are for sale with buyers who are looking for a place, a social component has also arisen. Often times people who are interested in real estate or decorating as a hobby and aren't actually buying will go on these tours with friends in order to see and admire different properties and the way they are staged. Generally it is only wealthy people who are able to do this as agents allow them to come in the hopes that they may buy something anyway.

If you're looking for a Toronto luxury condo and you think you would like to go on a condo tour, talk to your real estate agent. If you don't have one, sadly you won't be able to go, as agents only take their clients to these events. Only people living in big cities are able to arrange these tours, as towns generally don't have enough properties close together. For the same reason, it's usually only condos rather than town houses or houses that are featured on tours.