Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
Last week I wrote about various benefits you may get in a corporate relocation package when you need to sell a house. Today we’ll cover benefits you may receive if you’re buying a home in your new location. In all cases, you’ll work with a real estate agent to find your new home. If you know of a specific agent that you’d like to work with, tell your relocation company that agent’s name and their
I don’t know what’s going on lately, but in the past few months I’ve gotten several calls from real estate agents that have clients interested in my listings and they’d like me to present verbal offers to my sellers. Verbal offers are not standard practice when selling real estate in Hartford County. The Greater Hartford Association of Realtors has a standard purchase and sale contract that is used to write and present offers on properties.
November and December are traditionally slow months for real estate sales. People would rather focus on the various holidays, rather than think about buying and selling houses. Well, this year things appear to have slowed a little bit earlier than usual. Based on the towns I’m tracking below, the number of closed sales for single family homes was down 31% overall when comparing November 2008 to November 2007. That’s fairly significant. Here are the monthly
If there’s one mantra that you’ll hear from the real estate community, it’s that “Real Estate is local.” We don’t want you looking at what’s going on in California and Arizona and extrapolating that the same behavior is happening in your market. Because most likely, it’s not. Each market reacts differently based on the local economy, housing stock, demographics, and a host of other factors. Unfortunately, I believe there is another equally important phenomenon that
One of a real estate agent’s jobs is to act as an intermediary between buyers and sellers. This part of the job becomes particularly difficult when the buyers and sellers don’t appear to be on the same page. One timely example is with low ball offers. Low ball offers suck. It doesn’t really matter which side of the table you’re on. They just suck. As a buyer’s agent they suck because there needs to be