Should You Hire a Team or an Individual Agent?

If you're selling your home, there are many advantages to working with a team rather than a single agent. A real estate team can be more accommodating to your needs and help you on short notice.

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Should you work with an individual real estate agent or an agent that works as part of a team?

If you hire an agent who is actually working with a small professional team that can service your needs, there are some distinct advantages. For starters, you can almost always have immediate support with a team in the event that your agent is busy with another aspect of the business or your transaction. 

Additionally, teams can accommodate buyers on short notice. Say your lead agent is on an appointment and a buyer wants to see your home without much notice. It's much more likely that a team will be able to accommodate that buyer without the lead agent immediately available. 

Teams are much more versatile than individual agents.

Remember, when you sell, you'll then need to buy. A team can compete better in a seller's market like we're seeing in the Northeast. A home we listed recently had 30 showings in the first two days. When the market is this competitive, it's critical to have a team to accommodate your needs right away when the house of your dreams is listed on the market. A team will also be able to accommodate the other party's schedule as well as your own. 

Finally, with a team, you'll have members with specialized expertise. The team could be comprised of a lead member who is a professional negotiator, then a computer expert who is very good with contracts and interfacing with attorneys, someone who is a buying expert, and a staging expert. 

If you have any questions about working with a team to sell your home, feel free to reach out to us. We'd love to tell you about what makes our team so effective to work with when you're buying or selling a home. 

What’s Preventing You From Selling Your Home?

Looking to buy or sell a home in Merrimack Valley? Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home, click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call us at (978) 852-3001 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions.

If you’ve wanted to sell your home in the past but haven’t been able to, what’s stopping you now? Today we are going to talk about the most common reasons sellers decided against listing their home. Let’s take a look at them now: 

1. Your home isn’t prepared
If this is the case for you, all you really need to do is sit down with an agent or a home stager that can direct you on where to spend money to get the best return and how to best prepare your home for sell.

2. Rates are not favorable
Although you may think that rates are too high, if you look at the big picture, they really aren’t. They are historically low right now, and if they go up just a little bit, it will greatly affect your payments over a 30 or 15-year mortgage period.

3. Haven’t found the right property
The best solution for this is to know exactly how much you are going to qualify for, and identify the homes that meet your criteria. If there aren’t any to your liking, you may need to tweak your criteria a little bit. 

4. Unanswered questions
It may just be that you are afraid to ask a question or don’t know what question to ask. If there is anything we can do to help ease your doubts, or if you have any questions for us, give us a call or send us an email. We look forward to talking to you soon!

The final problem that people have is they haven’t found the right real estate professional to help them yet. If you need answers to any of the questions above, or if there is anything we can do to help silence your doubts, give us a call or send us an email. We would love to speak with you!

What Questions Do You Have to Answer BEFORE Selling?

Looking to buy or sell a home in Merrimack Valley? Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home, click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call us at (978) 852-3001 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions.

  

Today we are here to answer the question, “What’s the next step after selling your home?” To answer this, we are going to examine the 5 basic principles of selling a home. These are 5 questions that you need to answer with yourself and your family to decide what your next step after selling will be.

1. Why are you moving?
Once you know that, it helps generate the process in terms of where you’re going after your sale.

2. Where are you moving?
This is an important consideration as well. The geographic location of your home is critical, and the one thing you can not change about the property.

3. What can you afford?
This is where we can help you get pre-approved with a lender so you know exactly how much you can afford.

4. How will your life improve?
This is the most important question to answer.

5. How long have you been waiting?
If the answer is more than a few months, you need to take steps now to ensure your process goes smoothly. That’s the bottom line here.

There you have it, 5 questions to ask yourself in order to determine what’s next for you after selling. If you have any more questions for us, feel free to give us a call or send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you!