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There’s a reason nearly 90% of sellers use a listing agent: Selling a home takes time, knowledge of neighborhood trends, and negotiating skills. Our goals are to help set the right price and then get buyers in the door. We have access to the most up-to-date information about recent sales of comparable homes (“comps”) and competing listings in your neighborhood. The market is shifting every day and we bring that knowledge to the table.
Experience allows us to understand your situation and sell your property for the highest possible price. We’ve sold homes, condos, and income properties, fixer-uppers and Unicorns. We’re experienced with short sales, and bank owned/REO sales.
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Not sure if this is a good time to sell? Wonder how much you could get for your home? Let us create a comparative market analysis for your home to answer those questions and more.
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CARAVAN Our Marketing Team may put together a bus tour to bring agents to your home. Our video team will also be on this tour video your home and send it to buyer agents and prospects.
DRONE VIDEOS For Select Properties our Marketing Team will take aerial videos and photos of your home to show off its square footage and land features.
SIGNATURE LISTINGS Our Marketing Team will produce video tours to be placed on social media. Your home will be viewed as a top listing in our community.
LISTING ADVANTAGE TEAM We pride ourselves in having our own marketing division that works exclusively with our connections such as Buyer’s Agents, Lenders, Credit Unions, HR Departments, Investment Groups and Banks to get your home sold.
EXCLUSIVE NETWORK We are part of an exclusive networking group that will get your home seen by Top Producing members from over 50 different Brokerages and soon 700 agents across the San Fernando Valley, Antelope Valley and Santa Clarita Valley.
Our marketing is exceptional.
We know that buyers form quick impressions when looking at properties online, this is why we always use professional photos, lifestyle focused descriptions, and a plethora of new media and social media tools to make sure that your property shines.
We understand buyers.
After thousands of showings we can predict how buyers will respond to when they tour a property. Prior to photographing your property, we’ll consult with you about any changes that will improve how Buyers will react. We can also set up staging if necessary.
We’ll help you narrow and negotiate best offer for your property.
We know how to assess each offer based on price, terms, and buyer qualifications to help reduce your time on market and put more money in your pocket. We’re also used to handling multiple offer scenarios.
We are the best professionals for the job of selling your home because we work with the best before, during, and after a transaction.
Our success depends on working with the best service professionals in the business! From Escrow, title, and inspection professionals we work hard to make sure that you are satisfied throughout the process. We also work with many contractors and tradesmen who we can recommend for any work you might be interested in doing prior to listing.
Escrow and Closing Costs
No matter where you’re selling a home, at some point you’re going to find yourself deep in escrow. (Don’t worry. It’s not as bad as it sounds.) What is escrow? In real estate, it has several meanings, but they all boil down to your house and your money being in a kind of limbo.
Escrow is when an impartial third party holds on to something of value during a transaction.
Escrow and offers
When someone makes an offer on your property, they will write an earnest money check that will be placed in “escrow.” That means it isn’t going directly to the seller but is being held by an impartial third party until buyer and the seller negotiate a contract and close the deal. Buyer can’t touch it and the seller can’t touch it. It’s in escrow.
That’s important because it protects both parties. Say buyer puts down earnest money that went directly to the seller and then couldn’t reach a final purchase and sale agreement. You don’t want the buyer holding your earnest money hostage as a negotiating ploy. Likewise, the seller wouldn’t want to sign over the deed to the home until the buyer paid for it. Escrow ensures everyone gets what they are due at essentially the same time.
What are closing costs?
Closing costs are fees associated with your home sale at the closing of a real estate transaction. The closing point is when the title of the property is transferred from the seller to the buyer. Closing costs are incurred by either the buyer or seller. Escrow can give you an estimate of what the closing costs on your home will be.
Often, many of the fees that make up closing costs are negotiable, and some are completely unnecessary, especially things such as high administrative, mailing or courier costs charged by your escrow.
