Maureen Francis and Dmitry Koublitsky are real estate agents/brokers in Detroit who write regularly on local and national real estate-related topics. This article appeared on their blog last week:

I’m not the only agent who has observed that there are fewer and
fewer agents visiting homes during our weekly board of Realtors tours.
These tours, typically on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Oakland County, are
designed to invite Realtors to come through the new listings. There
could be lots of reasons that attendance is fizzling. Certainly listing
inventory is high right now. And it is summer, so is everyone taking a
break. I don’t think so.

But what can we do about the fall off in attendance?  Should we do anything?  The Birmingham Bloomfield Realtor Network
has gone to truly elaborate ends since last November to coax agents in
to our listings. Sponsors have given away lots of goodies, we served
food, we’ve offered shopping. And the results have been good. But there
is no way we could do this any more than once a month. It is too labor
intensive, and if it were done more frequently people would stop
showing up, because it would become ordinary.