Fairy meadow Real Estate Agents

Preparing to Sell property in Fairy Meadow is like selling anywhere. It is an interesting time, here are some quick tips.

Presentation is still king

Getting a buyer to love your property is what you want if you want to get the best possible sale result and presentation is the king and is still the key.

Its a bit like if you are going out on a date and you want to impress your potential mate, you get dressed up, you do your hair, and you put on some nice perfume for the ladies, and aftershave for the guys.

You make an effort so you look a million bucks, you want to win a heart.

Well if we can use this analogy of trying to find a buyer who falls in love with your real estate you have to make it look its best as well, and smell nice too

The best buyers for residential real estate do so because they are emotionally drawn to the property, if they think this could be my new home it is a big emotional purchase.

It is one of the most emotional purchases we can make, as the saying goes ” home is where the heart is ” and the image of home conjures up many emotional memories for most people.

So making an effort to present your property well will help to get heart buyer.

What about your real estate agent ?

Here are some good question for you to ask any potential real estate agents who may want to sell your property.

1. Why do I have to pay you money to advertise my property, couldn’t I just do that myself ?

Many real estate agents are asking for large sums of money to promote the property before you put it on the market.

These fees are for advertising and promotion costs, perhaps some good questions to ask the real estate agents when they ask for these fees is ” Where are all your buyers ? ”

“Why don’t you keep records of your buyers and then you wouldn’t need my money to advertise ”

If they are a real estate agent surely they would be in contact with buyers, if not don’t sell with them.

A closer inspection of real estate advertising particularly in print media demonstrates that it is really all about real estate agent self promotion.

As strange as it sounds in reality many property agents can’t wait to see how many pages of adds they have in the paper.

If you doubt this I challenge you to pick up a copy of the Illawarra Mercury any weekend and see how many photos of real estate agents are all through the Domain real estate section.

Some of the advertisements read more like the personals section of the newspaper.

Tip 1 : Don’t pay for any upfront charges for advertising.

At Penning Real Estate we won’t charge you upfront for any advertising or promotion costs.

2. Do you have any extra fees if my property doesn’t sell ?

You have to also be prepared if the sale does not go as planned.

If this happens and you decide not to sell at a later date or you decide to change agents, protect yourself by finding out completely what charges if any there are from the agent if the property has not sold.

As already mentioned many real estate agents have advertising and marketing charges which are on top of selling commissions and these are chargeable regardless of whether the property is sold or not

Be aware if this is the case with your agent, look at it as a form of risk management, used to protect yourself against any undisclosed potential financial loss.

3. What is the average time the agency takes to sell a property ?

This is the type of information any decent real estate agent will probably offer to you anyway, but if they don’t tell you ask the question, and make a note of the answer.

Follow the question up with “Why does it take that long ?” this is a little bit more probing and the type of question you want to fire at the agent.

Anyway the buyers will fire plenty of questions at the real estate agent so test the agent out, you want to know your agent has all the answers particularly when they are dealing with potential buyers for your property.

At Penning Real Estate our total focus is on keeping our customers happy. Contact us on 4284 8000 to find out more.