What exactly does a listing Realtor do?
How does your listing Realtor earn their commission?
The work of a listing Realtor starts early and ends late. It can be divided into three parts:
Pre-listing,
Listing,
Post-listing
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Open houses. Do they help sell houses?
On this blog, I’ve often discounted the importance of open houses. I’ve stated that they are traditionally a marketing tool for agents to find new clients but maybe I’ve been wrong?
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Realtor’s listing presentations
Listing Realtors The last two listing presentations that I have been invited to have been extra interesting because in both cases I was the…
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Looking ahead to change in the real estate world
Together we can change the world It is a bit of a paradox that the real estate industry is often the first to adopt…
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How to get multiple offers
Love them or hate them, multiple offers are still happening A couple of years ago when the real estate market was white hot here…
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Obvious things that home sellers tend to miss
Selling a home is fairly easy Somethings, like replacing a broken wheel on your dishwasher’s top drawer seem easy until you actually begin and…
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Advice for buying a home. Don’t believe it.
Half the advice I receive is bad (I just know know which half) Times change. How we do things change. What was true thirty…
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What happens if the buyer cannot close?
Closing the loop The market suddenly changed. And now some sellers can’t sell. Some buyers can’t close. When I say ‘suddenly’ I mean virtually…
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The house next door might be a bad comparable
You can’t control everything, but you can control the comparable sales data I mentioned in a recent blog post how buyers and realtors have…
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List price: a new meaning
There was a house in Waterloo with a list price of $799K. It sat on the market for about three weeks then the listing was…
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