There are quite a few reasons that you may want to purchase a home through a real estate agent. Here are some of the ways an agent can improve your home buying experience:
Like stock values, home values change all the time. What you think is a good price for a home may or may not be competitive. Our priority as a real estate group is to be on the forefront of market behaviors, following leading indicators such as inventory levels or active-to-pending timing, instead of lagging indicators like Zillow sales data or Zestimates.
We can help you assess the quality of the homes you look at. On home tours, while you’re taking in all the features of the house, we examine all the nuts and bolts of the home, looking for any problem areas, things that might need to be addressed in due diligence, while also thinking about the resale impact of various features. We’ve seen a lot of houses and we know what to look for.
We can provide strategic guidance in how to compete, both in a market that favors sellers and in a market that benefits buyers. We can also prepare you for every kind of market in between!
When buying a home, you’re not just dealing with the seller. We have long-standing relationships with a wide range of real estate-related professionals, including lenders, home inspectors, contractors, and more. We vet them so that you don’t have to, and we ensure that they adhere to our standards and values so that you can have peace of mind.
We also develop quality, professional relationships with many of the agents in the area. When we’re sitting across the table from them, we not only know how many of them think and can strategize around their tendencies, but we also have a history of good working relationships that can help the whole process run more smoothly.