First and foremost, thank you for allowing me to present myself. The information provided here is intended to help you achieve the successful sale of your home.
You are considering selling one of the most valuable assets you own. Please take 10 to 15 minutes of your time to evaluate all the fine details that I am providing for you, versus any other means of selling your home. Should you hire an acquaintance that can just put your home on the computer and hold open houses? Sell it on your own? Or hire a professional with a proven track record of marketing and selling hundreds of properties just like yours at top dollar?
An incorrect decision may mean thousands of dollars lost and many restless nights.
I trust the following information will help you make this decision with ease.
For Condominiums:
Experience is priceless when it comes to determining the market value of your home. The seller sets the price of the home, but ultimately the buyer determines the value. The entire world revolves around the principle that any object is worth what a buyer will pay for it.
My job is to provide you with facts about what has sold recently and what is for sale now, along with the details on properties that attempted to sell but were unsuccessful. This information will help you make an informed decision on pricing your home.
Pricing Your Home is not Guesswork.
It takes an experienced and qualified agent to help you determine the fair market value of your home.
You benefit from having an Agent who has a high number of listings.
You get what you pay for with an agent
The prime marketing time occurs during the first few weeks, making it vitally important that your home is correctly priced from the very beginning. A new listing should be correctly priced the first day. A brand new listing is exciting, is shown more, and generally sells for a higher price than older listings. Later fair or not, prospective buyers begin to wonder why it hasn’t already sold.
Stay out of the Red
The bottom line - by pricing your home correctly in the beginning you will walk away with more money!
It’s a fact. Properly priced homes sell faster and for more money during the first weeks of the listing. Your home will have the most activity within the first 30 days of it being on the market, Correct pricing is vital for you to sell your home within a reasonable time frame and for the most money. Don’t miss your prime marketing period by setting a price higher than justified by the Competitive Market Evaluation. You risk the possibility of it selling for even less later.
Buying a home is usually an emotional experience. People make the decision to purchase based upon their “feelings”. Get the competitive edge when you make the improvements necessary to generate a demand for your house. The subconscious appeal that you create may affect your sales price and help you sell more quickly and at a better price.
As tired and banal as these clichés may sound to you, the reason why they are clichés is because they are true. The decision to buy a house is not solely base upon rational factors such as price, location and accessibility to services. It is also an emotional choice. It is a search for a home, a place in which one will find comfort, security and happiness, a place one would want to settle down and live in.
Emotions are set early, so it is important that minor, even typical, nuisances such as an unmowed lawn or a pile of boots by the door are looked after. After only fifteen seconds most buyers have already developed a perception of your property that will color their feelings for the rest of the showing and perhaps dramatically affect their perceived value of the property.
Turn on all lights and open all drapes in the daytime. Play quiet background music. Turn on air-conditioning or light fireplace.
Keep pets outside during showings (or better yet at a friend’s) Have as few people in the house as possible. If you can, be absent during any showings as potential buyers often feel awkward and rush through if they think they are inconveniencing the owner.
I am a member of the Winnipeg Real Estate Board, the Manitoba Real Estate Association and the Canadian Real Estate Association. More importantly to you, I have access to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and am bound to adhere to a strictly enforced Code of Ethics and Standards of Business Practice.
In Manitoba, it is assumed that, unless one or both of the parties otherwise disclose, the agent and the firm representing the seller is the seller’s agent and the agent and firm representing the buyer is the buyer’s agent.
It may arise that RE/MAX real estate inc. also represents the person who wants to buy your home (or represents the owner of a home you wish to buy). RE/MAX can only continue to represent both parties when both consent to the joint representation, in which case we must treat both in a fair and evenhanded manner. We would be unable to represent the interest of either party over the interest of the other in such a case as this, an “Acknowledgement of Limited Joint Representation” must be executed.
You can expect competent service knowing that RE/MAX is bound by ethics and the law to be honest and thorough in representing a property listed for sale.
Once you have signed a Multiple Listing Agreement, over 1500 sales people in Winnipeg subscribing to the MLS are advised your home is for sale and given the details necessary to sell it. They will be paid from the commission you pay RE/MAX Executives Realty unless otherwise disclosed.
