Selling Your Home

The greatest possible return on your investment

Selling your home isn’t an easy decision. But who you trust to sell it with can be. It’s our thoughtful approach to preparing, marketing, and negotiating the sale of your home that makes our clients feel confident throughout the entire process.

MARKETING EXPOSURE

We place your home in front of prospective buyers and agents by focusing on the high-visibility platforms that matter most.

State-of-the-Art Staging

Our love of design comes through in our interior styling, historically increasing the final sale price by up to seven percent.

STRATEGIC PRICING

By paying careful attention to necessary repairs at the forefront, we ensure that you enter negotiations in the strongest position possible.

Phase 1

Understanding the Landscape

LEARNING YOUR OBJECTIVES

  • The Property: Features, Details, and History

  • The Market: Important Questions

  • Making a Plan to Move Forward

 

POSITIONING EXPECTATIONS, TIMING, PRICE

  • Review of General Market

  • Review of Specific Market

  • Review of Subject Property

 

GETTING READY

  • Marketing Preparations

  • Documentation

  • Monitoring Changes in the Marketplace

Phase 2

A Proper First Impression

INTRODUCING THE PROPERTY

  • Networking

  • Current Buyers

  • Announcements

  • Print, Brochure, Internet, and Mailing Exposure

  • Strategic Public Relations Exposure

  • Private Review – Market trends and recent market history

  • Broker Preview

  • Monitoring Feedback

 

MARKETING YOUR HOME

  • Networking

  • Public Relations Opportunities

  • Brochure Distribution

  • Print Advertising

  • Internet Marketing

  • Targeted Mailings

  • Responding to the Market

 

SHOWING THE PROPERTY

  • Creating the Proper First Impression

  • Assessing and Engaging the Prospect

  • Highlighting Property Features

  • Differentiation

  • Answering Questions / Handling Objections: Creating Value

  • Knowing the Competition

  • Demonstrating Opportunity

  • Gathering Client Response

Phase 3

Driving Buyer Interest

CREATING & MONITORING INTEREST

  • Marketing

  • Networking

  • Broker Previews

  • Open Houses / Private Previews

 

COMMUNICATING WITH YOU

  • Establishing a Method

  • Communicating Marketing Efforts

  • Communicating Market Activity

  • Changes in the Competition

  • Changes in the Sale Process

 

MAKING ADJUSTMENTS

  • Expectations: When Circumstances Change

  • Shifts in the Market

  • Revising Our Plan

  • Moving Forward

PHASE 4

Negotiating Offers

WHERE EXPERIENCE COUNTS

  • Communicating Before the Offer is Received

  • Attracting the Right Offer

  • Qualifying the Prospect

  • Multiple Offer Situations

  • Pitfalls in a Proposed Offer

  • Managing Expectations

  • Positioning You to Win

 

ESCROW

  • Creating a Timeline

  • Managing the Contract: Our Duties and Your Responsibilities

  • Inspections

  • Disclosures

  • Additional Negotiations (Repair Items)

  • Removal of Contingencies

  • Preparing to Close

  • Final Details

 

CLOSING

  • Transitioning You from this Property

  • Your Closing Statement

  • Post Closing Details

  • Understanding Your Future Needs

  • Keeping You Informed

  • A Resource for the Future