How to Use estate agent in a Sentence

estate agent

noun
  • Knight Frank, an estate agent, says that home prices in the city have risen by 21% in the past year.
    The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • Neither the real-estate agent nor the seller had disclosed the home was in a flood zone.
    Ross Martin, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Across the street from Mr. Moon’s shop, Oh Soo-hee, a real-estate agent, s​at in ​her small office, her ​white ​pet dog at her feet.
    Choe Sang-Hun Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Back then estate agents in Mayfair and St James’s would often sell homes for more than £50m.
    The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • This allowed manager Matt Beard to quit his job as an estate agent to coach the team full time.
    SI.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Oh Soo-hee, a real-estate agent, s​at in ​her small office, her ​white ​pet dog at her feet.
    Choe Sang-Hun, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Sarah Winderlin, a real-estate agent, acquired one of the urns last year.
    Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • As any real-estate agent in New York will tell you, there are always trade-offs.
    Curbed, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Carroll, who’s a real-estate agent, had already filled out the contract for the house for his friend.
    Rhaina Cohen, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2020
  • When real-estate agents or speculators came to the shore, Melvin tried to scare them away.
    Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 15 July 2019
  • Madison Sutton had been a real-estate agent for only about six months when the city shut down.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The real-estate agent says his ability to think on the spot will come in handy on the reality TV show.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The inspiration for the business came from his mom, who works as a real-estate agent.
    Emily Glazer, WSJ, 10 July 2021
  • Her body was found by a real-estate agent who was showing the property.
    oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Her real-estate agent, Alex Marks, is also a new transplant from New York.
    Deborah Acosta, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • Real-estate agents and firms are taking it a step further, using the books in business.
    Candace Taylor, WSJ, 30 May 2018
  • García called the real-estate agent who had listed the house and agreed to buy it without an inspection.
    Jack Nicas Sarah Pabst, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Could the chilly local estate agent possibly warm up to Robert’s shenanigans?
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Real estate agent Mark Hull, who lives in Dune Acres, said lake levels go up and down but this year has been an exception.
    Amy Lavalley, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2020
  • McKee is from the suburbs of Detroit, the son of an engineer and a real-estate agent.
    Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Finally in the early 1990s, the Odios received a letter from a real-estate agent saying one of the houses was for sale.
    Libertina Brandt, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Myroslava, his wife, was a real-estate agent, with the wide cheekbones and long straight hair of so many Ukrainian women.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Real estate agent Peter Grimm said the turnaround time is usually less than a week.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2020
  • This week's question comes from a viewer who asked the oracles of the Window Shop series: What's the perfect car for a real-estate agent?
    Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 8 July 2022
  • Some builders have gone to a lottery system to sell their homes, said Chrissy Mallouf, a local real-estate agent.
    Paul Overberg, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Matt Nagy, fledgling real-estate agent, was sitting in the garage of a model home at the end of a cul-de-sac in a new neighborhood in Annville, Pa., in February 2011.
    Peter King, SI.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Viewers may recall that the character was a real-estate agent.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Buyers also rely on the knowledge of local real-estate agents, who have worked for years in flood-prone areas, Mr. Zoller said.
    Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2017
  • That’d be an abysmal number of all-career deals for someone who’s played a real-estate agent on TV since March 2019 and had experience in the field before that.
    Vulture, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Scherf was serving a life sentence for the abduction and rape of a Spokane real-estate agent after making an appointment with her to see a home in 1995.
    Paige Cornwell, The Seattle Times, 12 Oct. 2018

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