selling your home: Why You Need a Real Estate Agent When It’s Time to Sell
- 04/19/18 08:41 AM
Home sales in the USA are expected to rise by 3 percent by the end of this year, compared to 2017 figures. This information comes from Redfin economist, Nela Richardson, and was reported by the team at CNN Money in January of 2018. While the Bozeman real estate market is almost always hotter than other markets in the country, with national stats like this, it may be safe to assume that our local market will see an bit of a higher uptick in home sales than the rest of the country. In such a competitive market, working with a Real Estate Agent is … (1 comments)
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selling your home: Is Your Listing a Hard Sell?
- 03/31/16 04:03 AM
I recently read an article in RealtorMag that made some strong points for not overselling your real estate listing. I’ve been in this business for a lot of years so I’ve seen a LOT of homes. One of the very first lessons I learned was to not over-sell a listing. I am giving my client the best, most professional service as a real estate agent by being completely honest with them about their property. Sugar-coating it won’t gain my client anything but heart-ache and money in the long run.
Here are some of the great points made in the article:
Never Fake Perfection. Sellers are typically obligated to disclose known defects. Additionally, as a realtor, I am obliged … (0 comments)
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selling your home: Why List Your Home This Fall/Winter?
- 10/08/14 12:29 AM
Many people think the real estate market freezes over as the weather gets colder. Truth is, the fall and winter months provide unique advantages that can actually assist in the selling of your home! Listen to learn more…
Greater Number of Serious Buyers Looking
During the fall and winter months, you find only serious home buyers previewing homes. They people who really need to buy now, and are willing to go above and beyond to find a home. They often have a pressing need to close quickly and move in soon due to a job relocation or major life change. Also, … (2 comments)
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selling your home: Better Listings: Bozeman Montana Real Estate.net's Approach to Selling
- 01/31/14 01:10 AM
The 2013 Stats are out! The Bozeman Montana Real Estate.net Team boasted:
· ~$40.5 Million Moved in 2013 · 136 Transactions Closed in 2013 · 98 Buyers Purchased Home with Bozeman Montana Real Estate.net in 2013 · We Have 3,500 Active Buyers in a Maintained and Groomed Database · We Are Bozeman Relocation Experts with 95% of Leads Coming From Online · We facilitated our largest Commercial real estate transaction: Bozeman’s Wasabi! ___________________________________________________________
This year, our Thinking Outside of the Box Approach allowed us to have a more dynamite year than ever before! Whether this is your first time selling a … (1 comments)
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selling your home: Top Selling Real Estate Advice
- 11/04/13 05:07 AM
In an office of eight, soon to be nine, agents, I am in a unique position to be the fly on the wall from many day-to-day interactions. Each day, I watch and learn as they navigate the market booms, contract terminations and all other variances real estate brings with it. Here are a few of the consistent tips that really get things moving in the market:
Dangers of Overpricing. Pricing a home is a process, not an individual point. To reach the ideal price of a home, the market and the seller engage in a dynamic and vocal conversation back and … (0 comments)
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selling your home: Hitting the Sweet Spot: Seller/Listing Agent Pricing of a Home
- 06/13/13 02:13 AM
When a home owner makes the mental steps needed in order to reach a point of selling their home, with it comes the memories, experience, and investment that the home owner has put into the space.
When an agent is approached to give a CMA for a potential listing, they research the comps in the area. Comps are a funny thing though—they look at houses in a similar micro-market that holds a similar tangible value. Many times, pulling comps together takes creativity and time.
Traditionally, when these two numbers the client and the agent bring to the table meet, … (2 comments)
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selling your home: Home Appraisals and Their Role in Real Estate
- 06/12/13 12:05 AM
Home appraisals are an integral piece of the real estate puzzle and as such, they can be used as indicators regarding how the market is faring. The relationship between the real estate market and appraisal values basically follows the trend that when the market plummets, sales are more often derailed by low appraisals that fall short of the home’s selling price. Recently, appraisers are putting higher values on homes again creating an environment that allows more deals to go through. Between the years of 2008-2010, a Seattle-based firm reported 1/3 of their sales as coming in under below the selling price … (0 comments)
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selling your home: Understanding a CMA: Comparative Market Analysis
- 05/15/13 03:07 AM
The Comparative Market Analysis Breakdown:
Your home is your home true, but as you phase into the process of knowing you are going to sell your home, a vital step is to be able to put on your ‘what is this home worth to others’ glasses and knowing distort your personal opinions for a little bit.
--------------MAIN PURPOSE OF A CMA
After getting the general idea of what your home is worth, meet up with a handful of Realtors and look at their CMA that they will prepare for you. This is a professional and in-depth look at other homes … (3 comments)
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selling your home: Seller’s Market on the Rebound throughout the Country
- 02/24/13 11:22 PM
A seller’s market is developing and home prices are continually raising in every region expect for the West. Here we are seeing a limited inventory. Nationwide, inventory fell 4.9% to 1.74 million homes available for sale (representing a 4.2 month supply at the current sales price). Distressed home sales accounted for only 23% of the home sales in January 2013—down from the 35% the prior year.
“We expect a seasonal rise of inventory this spring, but it may be insufficient to avoid more frequent incidences of multiple bidding and faster-than-normal price growth,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, explained.
In … (2 comments)
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selling your home: Moving Cost Add Up: Looking At the Unexpected and Pricey Process
- 02/19/13 07:01 AM
When the decision is made to move, the costs that initially come to mind are the biggies. The costs and decisions transitioning families face are endless. Here are a few of the not-so-obvious monetary stresses that may come with moving:
Auto Insurance: "When you move from a more rural market, less population, to a highly densely populated urban environment, you can see swings (in your car insurance rates) probably anywhere from 15 (percent) to 50 percent," says Dan Young, senior vice president of insurance relations for Carstar. Especially if you are moving out of state, the minimum liability requirements vary state-to-state. … (3 comments)
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selling your home: The Down Fall of Real Estate: A Few Theories on What Happened
- 11/16/12 01:42 AM
"What really caused the real estate meltdown? A lot of Republicans blame Bill Clinton, because of the Real Estate Reinvestment Act, which they say made it too easy for certain people to buy houses instead of continuing to live in Mr. Potter's slums. Even Mayor Bloomberg of New York says the Feds did it. Others, like Jeff Rubin, blame the price of oil. Now Christopher Leinberger notes another cause in the New York Times: the collapse of the car-dependent suburban fringe. It is due to a dramatic demographic shift that is causing cities to boom while the suburbs empty.
Many Boomers are now empty … (2 comments)
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selling your home: Professional Photography: Real Estate Service Above Expectation
- 08/28/12 01:32 AM
"Photography is at the center of all your marketing," says Brian Balduf, chairman of VHT, a provider of photography services to agents and brokers in the Chicago area. "It's not just documenting that there is a house for sale. You want people to say, 'What a house,' " and be motivated enough to take action, he says.
"When people are searching for homes, they search by price range, location [and the numbers of bedrooms and bathrooms]. But then once they have the list, the visual piece becomes a larger and more important part of the decision," says Jani Strand, spokeswoman … (1 comments)
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selling your home: Bozeman Montana Real Estate.net New Listings!
- 07/11/12 02:05 AM
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selling your home: Team Service Above Expectation: Office Bio (1/7) MARKETING
- 06/27/12 02:15 AM
Brittney Dahlberg was born and raised in Montana to parents who love her, cherish her, and gave her the best friend of a lifetime, her brother. Educated in International Relations, she will receive an Honors and a Leadership degree from Montana State University Dec. 22nd 2012.
Professionally, Brittney is the Marketing and Relations Manager at Bozeman Montana Real Estate.net. She coordinates post closing relations,
all the online marketing, as well as serves as our in house professional photographer for all our listing advertisement.
REAL ESTATE PORTRAITS BOZEMAN LIFE
Her perspective and her drive opened the doors … (0 comments)
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selling your home: Not Looking to Sell? You Can Still Prepare NOW!
- 06/18/12 01:28 AM
As a owner of my very first home and as a person who has their camera as a third arm, I have found inspiration in a blog today that makes me think about what the everyday home owner can do even before they know they want to sell their home. A home is a place where life happens. This blog celebrates that:
“So you have a house you're proud of and would love to share on online but you find yourself putting it off because... A. You don't have a nice camera or a photo … (3 comments)
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selling your home: THREE MUST DO’s BEFORE YOU LIST
- 05/14/12 02:07 AM
PAPERWORK: Having a detailed list of repairs, updates, and upgrades will greatly assist in how an agent words the description on MLS and therefore everywhere else your listing is seen. New roofing, especially in Bozeman hail-happy weather, or other similar perks can be marketed as features of your listing.
APPEARANCE: De-clutter, clean, stage. These are all things you as a home-owner can do and do well to maximize the wow factor of your home. Photographs are possible buyer’s first introduction to the home and first impressions are vital. If your home is picture ready when you sign the papers … (1 comments)
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selling your home: Nine Deadly Selling Sins
- 05/02/12 01:24 AM
Neglect
Fix your listings repairs that have been on the to-do list for ages. Money will be lost if major repairs are not remedied prior to going on the market.
Clutter/Junk
“Clutter eats equity and kills deals?
Empty
There is a balance to clutter and vast emptiness. You do not want either. An empty house echoes, showing every flaw, and lacks the ‘homey’ vibe that can pull a buyer into an offer.
Mispricing
Overpricing is as detrimental as under pricing. The listing price an agent chooses is not arbitrary. The listing will get appraised and the price is required … (3 comments)
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selling your home: Bozeman Montana Real Estate.net Family Home
- 04/13/12 02:19 AM
Family Home/Family Neighborhood … (0 comments)
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selling your home: Opinion on Open Houses
- 04/06/12 12:21 AM
Opinions on the effectiveness of open houses are split. One side claims that open houses are a client pacifier that draws in little to no effective leads. The other side counters that opinion with their own—one that with due to modern marketing techniques open houses are regaining effectiveness.
What side to you land on?
Marketing Helpers From Promoting Open Houses
Facebook Pages/Events—A direct marketing strategy that can invite, track, and specialize the advertising as needed. Online Calendars—Event calendars, community events, and many more online calendars are free to post to. Get the word out! Blogging—Look at what I’m doing here. Word … (4 comments)
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selling your home: Checklist to Find a Great—not just a good—Agent
- 03/26/12 03:52 AM
I run into daily examples where I hear about an agent handling a situation in a manner I gawk at because I can never see my responding in the manner than said agent did. Each time this happens I am reminded that, although all real estate agents carry the title of realtor, everyone’s job description is vastly different.
“In a recent survey, only 20 percent of Americans said they trusted real estate agents as a profession. But here's the good news, for buyers, sellers and agents: though people seem to distrust agents as a group, nearly 90 percent of buyers and … (1 comments)
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Home sales in the USA are expected to rise by 3 percent by the end of this year, compared to 2017 figures. This information comes from Redfin economist, Nela Richardson, and was reported by the team at CNN Money in January of 2018. While the Bozeman real estate market is almost always hotter than other markets in the country, with national stats like this, it may be safe to assume that our local market will see an bit of a higher uptick in home sales than the rest of the country. In such a competitive market, working with a Real Estate Agent is … (1 comments)
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