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6 strategies to get more from your MLS searches

Housing Wire

It’s time to get more creative, aggressive and profitable with your MLS searches. 6 strategies to actively and creatively mine your MLS 1. Look for new construction, even if your buyers don’t think they will like it. Look at your own past client and sphere of influence list as your private MLS.

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Top 10 ways to get homebuyers to work with you

Housing Wire

You know what you do, but how do you explain it in such a way that a buyer understands your value, the required agency forms and everything involved to make it to the closing table? Should they consider new construction? There are other ways to find inventory rather than just using your MLS.

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Home pricing rules: don’t go if you don’t know

Housing Wire

Private sales, for sale by owner and other sales not found in your MLS could be really good comparable homes, so ask good questions and don’t just assume your seller is overpriced. Not just for your town or even zip code, but for their neighborhood, school district and MLS code. Know what’s going on with the new construction!

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I’d list my home, but where would I move?

Housing Wire

Stop answering clients’ concerns by saying, “Yeah, there’s really nothing on the market, I mean everything in the MLS is already pending. Build a home instead of chasing after the scarce resale inventory 30% of available homes are new construction, so there are several advantages to this option. Next, the house is new.

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Should You Interact With The Buyers Before Your Sale Closes?

Toronto Realty Blog

TorontoRealtyBlog In my life, I have sold and closed on two properties that were a “primary residence,” and both times, I decided to welcome the new buyer with a kind gesture. On Monday, we talked about the nonsense that buyers often have to go through upon closing.

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12 Creative ways to sell your listings faster without a price reduction

Real Trends

Why buy your listing when there’s new construction with builder incentives? Have your seller contribute $10,000 toward the buyer’s closing costs. This is paid at settlement and flows through the title agency or attorney closing the transaction. This would be paid at closing by the seller.

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Home pricing rules: Don’t go if you don’t know

Real Trends

Private sales, for sale by owner and other sales not found in your MLS could be really good comparable homes, so ask good questions and don’t just assume your seller is overpriced. Not just for your town or even zip code, but for their neighborhood, school district and MLS code. Know what’s going on with the new construction!