Buyers Agency Council launches new Internet e-Buyer course

The growing use of the Internet by potential home sellers and buyers is causing real estate professionals to re-assess how they do business, what skills they need, and what new strategies and technologies they have to learn.

How these changes affect the home-buying process is the cornerstone of a new elective course being offered by the Real Estate Buyer's Agency Council of the National Association of Realtors.

The course, called "e-Buyer," is au-thored by well-known industry strategist Stefan Swanepoel, according to an NAR press release. The course is designed to help participants take the next step after they master computer and Internet basics.

"In the new e-Buyer course, we set out to explore topics that are important to buyer's agents right now," said Janet Branton, managing director of REBAC.

"The e-Buyer course takes a hard look at how the Internet is changing the market and how buyer's representatives can meet those new challenges," Bran-ton added.

Founded in 1988, REBAC is the awarding body for the accredited buyer's representative and accredited buyer's representative manager designations.

The six-hour course, already approved by many state Realtor associations for continuing education credits, can be counted towards the ABR designation.

Additional information about the e-Buyer course is available online at www.rebac.net.