For sellers, it can seem overwhelming to know how to anticipate and coordinate every step necessary to prepare your home to show, list, market, and sell. An experienced real estate professional who is knowledgeable in all phases of real estate can make the process much easier. You do not need real estate expertise if you engage a professional who has it. No matter how long you have lived in your home, a real estate professional in your local area will know considerably more about the sale price history and market trends than you do. When you hire a Top Real Estate Agent you don't just get their expertise, experience, and knowledge you also get access to all the service providers that they know and trust to help faciliate a sale. For example: Once we had a buyer tell us they were pre approved for a mortagage an wrote an offer on our listing. Two days before conditions were due they were told they didn't qualify at their bank. My mortgage professional was able to find a lender that approved them in 24 hours. Good agents will possess intimate knowledge about your area or they have the contacts and resources to find the necessary information. They can identify comparable sales and find more demographic and statistical information than the average person. For example, you may know that a home down the street was on the market for $700,000, but a professional real estate agent will know the home had upgrades and sold at $665,000 after 45 days on the market. A real estate agent will also have market conditions data, which will affect your selling process. Many factors determine how you will proceed. Data such as the average per-square-foot cost of similar homes, median and average sales prices, average number of days on the market, and comparisons of list-to-sold prices will
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