05/03/2026
It is incredibly frustrating to go through the whole “showing ritual”—scrubbing the stove, wrangling the kids, and hiding every trace of your daily life, only to be met with total silence. You do the work to make the house look like a magazine, and when a showing seems to go perfectly, the “radio silence” that follows feels like a personal slight. In a slow market, you’re looking for any bit of information to help you sell, so it’s natural to wonder why a simple professional courtesy has seemingly disappeared.
The reality is that we are in a season of “long-haul buyers.” With more options on the market, people are often looking for six to twelve months before making a move. For a buyer’s agent, giving feedback is actually a bit of a gamble. If they tell you their client loved the house, they worry you’ll dig your heels in on the price, thinking the buyer is willing to overpay. On the flip side, if they’re too brutally honest about what their client didn’t like, they risk offending you, which could make things awkward if that buyer eventually decides your home is “the one” and wants to negotiate a fair offer.
At the end of the day, a buyer’s agent is there to protect their client’s best interests. While it’s definitely annoying, staying quiet is often their way of keeping their cards close to the chest. They want to keep a “blank slate” just in case their buyer circles back months from now. Plus, in a market with so much inventory, these agents are often showing dozens of homes; sometimes, they just don’t want to provide a critique that could come back to haunt them.
While the lack of a reply feels like a breach of etiquette, it’s usually just a sign of a cautious agent protecting their buyer’s leverage.
