What exactly does a listing Realtor do?
byHow 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?
byOn 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?
Realtor’s listing presentations
byListing Realtors The last two listing presentations that I have been invited to have been extra interesting because in both cases I was the…
Looking ahead to change in the real estate world
byTogether we can change the world It is a bit of a paradox that the real estate industry is often the first to adopt…
How to get multiple offers
byLove them or hate them, multiple offers are still happening A couple of years ago when the real estate market was white hot here…
Obvious things that home sellers tend to miss
bySelling a home is fairly easy Somethings, like replacing a broken wheel on your dishwasher’s top drawer seem easy until you actually begin and…
Advice for buying a home. Don’t believe it.
byHalf the advice I receive is bad (I just know know which half) Times change. How we do things change. What was true thirty…
What happens if the buyer cannot close?
byClosing 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…
The house next door might be a bad comparable
byYou can’t control everything, but you can control the comparable sales data I mentioned in a recent blog post how buyers and realtors have…
List price: a new meaning
byThere was a house in Waterloo with a list price of $799K. It sat on the market for about three weeks then the listing was…