We are considered a small town market and most of the brokerages have store fronts. Occasionally a buyer or seller will walk in the door but the numbers have declined drastically over the last 10 years. 

Well...our broker's office does serve walk-ins - but - we are rarely there - working out of our home offices...

While in Phoenix I worked a "storefront" location for maybe a month. No traffic to speak of.

Walkins are very rare

I have 4 offices, but few people ever walk in to any of them, seldom even have staff in them on a regular basis.

Congrats on the first blog post, AR can be a powerful tool!

We moved out of a store front approximately 4 years ago into an executive building office.

I did 25 years ago in NYC with Halstead Property. They moved to a corporate office on Park Avenue some years ago. I have always been in an office building in Charlotte, but once... and didn't actually see a whole lot of walk-in business at the one company that had more of a store-front.

Every area is different...there are brokerages that reward agents for home offices. Not sure that the either is applicable for every metro area.

I have people walk into my virtual storefront on the good ole web! I also have storefronts on Sundays when I do open houses for sellers.

I don't and I do miss that too, Joseph Domino 480-390-6011! It's not very common here and it really was nice having folks walking through the door - "office" space seems so blah to me now! 

My current brokerage is on a main street -- I don't know about walk-in traffic as that is not part of my personal marketing these days.  

At times I would like to but can't get enough agents who want to be in the office

I actually never have in 18 years.

I guess I would if I had an office in La Jolla proper, but I'm in the financial district, no tourists there.

I'm in a tourist town. About half our brokerages are store-front with a lot of walk-in traffic. What does that get them? A lot of looky-loos that will never buy. It mandates floor time and is primarily a time-waster. My office rarely gets a walk-in and we have as many sales as a store-front with 3x the agents. The world has changed and most serious lookers have been online long before they reach out to an agent.

Our office is a converted home that was used as a doctors office prior to being used by KW

We serve the walkin however we are on the second floor of a 2 story dental office...

I started out in Boston in a store front that is there today, 12 years later, but my current office is in an office park.

We have a store front office that gets very good traffic. Floor time is coveted and yes, we get sales from our walk ins.

I do not. and I think less and less have store fronts in big cities.

Most of our 8 offices are in a regular store front location. One is behind a McDonalds if you can believe that.

At KW the walk in rate is 2% of transactions.  Current brokerage, close to nothing.

People find homes on devices, online go to open house and strike a deal. This is the current trend-DIU.

Fewer are looking buyer agents these days.

Prior to opening my brokerage, I did work in a storefront, no walk-in traffic at all except for tourists looking for someone to give them a tour of the city. I was rarely in the office and did not take any floor time. 
I also had a storefront when I opened my brokerage for a while, it was just a waste of money, no walk-ins. I now work out of my home office and love it.

Welcome to AR and congratulations on your first post. 

I have not worked in a store front office ... in over 5 years.  Walk-ins were not common even 5 years ago. 

I am independent now.  I work from my home office and have do so even when I was affiliated with another brokerage. 

I had an office in the apartment complex I managed but didn't work a storefront for the last 10 years of my career.  In 30 years I think I only secured 2 walk-in clients when I did work at a storefront.  Here's an article I wrote in October of 2016 on the subject: My Blog Was My Storefront.  

Blog on!  

Joseph Domino 480-390-6011 I don't believe we have any left here. I did work for one of the last office's that had a store front.

This is a good question as it makes more sense to work on the go or out of your home with few exceptions. Technology has us thinking out of the box literally

Walk ins still work in resort area cities. Oklahoma City is a car oriented city so that hasn't worked in decades.

Have not been involved with a stroefront brokerage in years. When I was, traffic was not terrific.

I have always been in a free standing building, as a whole i see many of the small companies who were in the store fronts, get bought out by the big franchises.

My office is in a strip mall in the heart of the Tech Center, and do see a few walk-ins.   I am rarely there though.

The only store fronts that are truly successful in our area are those that are close to the beaches.  Otherwise, walk-ins seem to be a thing of the past.

I work mostly from home. My broker has a small office that now he rented out partially since no one ever comes there. Our meetings are digital and no one has a need to stay in the office. People do not walk in anymore. 

We do.

Real estate is conducted differently all over the country. We are in an executive building in prime location..no walk-ins but wouldn't expect them. Love..love...love ...our location!

My brokerage has a storefront, but very few walk ins. 

Joseph Domino 480-390-6011 - well, at eXp, it is in Cloud....lol!

Office buildings? How about totally mobile? I think the “store-front” can work well in certain communities. Only issue is cost as you are in a retail operation setting with commensurate higher rents. You may not be wanted by a landlord. We have a large builder of office and industrial park complexes and they are seeing the large cpa/accounting, attorney firms NOT seeking out office space.

In the right area a storefront would be very cool. But I’m inclined to seek out the office with multiple conference rooms, work areas  and lean expense when it comes to sticks and bricks. At KW we like to “lead with profit” and don’t covet the huge office space unless we have a full raft of agents to fill it. In a digital world stick and bricks are becoming more like buggy whips, or to keep it somewhat relevant, like an Ipod!

    I see the storefront offices in Highlands, North Carolina and in Charleston, SC and places like that.  Not so much in cities like Tallahassee.

A storefront if well sited would excite me, but our California Affiliate Broker has  the typical office building situs.  In Florida, we are virtual

Our office is in an office building and that has worked well for the agents. 

Joseph we had a store front for several years or so with little to no foot traffic which wasn't worth the high cost of leasing. Welcome to the Rain!!  FYI perhaps you can join us in September for the Phoenix/Scottsdale ActiveRain meetup.  We locals get together ,share ideas and just relax a bit over happy hour. Hope you can join us - details to follow later.

I got away from store front and office front a few years back.  With everyone looking online - I think this is not important any longer.

I've always been out of my house.

yes...the broker/owner owns the building and we have the first floor....we DO get walk-ins.... we're located on a state highway with great visibility....can't miss us.... big sign out front....

Joseph,

In our market, there are still many store fronts. A