Overview of the Home Selling Process
Selling a home in Maine begins with assembling your team and determining the market value of your property.
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Listing with an Agent vs FSBO
Most parties do not want to pay a commission to a real esate agent, but often you will make more money using an agent.
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Internet Exposure
Most parties do not want to pay a commission to a real esate agent, but often you will make more money using an agent.
Learn more here
View Professional Visual Tours I created for all my listings with the help of EnvisionPix.com
I encourage you to take a look at the various: Portland, Coastal and southern Maine community pages that I have created as I believe they provide a good overview of the regions and thier corresponding housing markets:
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Initial Consultation:
- Determine your needs and priorities
- Discuss Marketing Plan
- Establish Pricing Strategy
Design and Implement Marketing Plan
- Complete any home improvements if necessary
- Carry out scheduled marketing activities
- Show property to prospective buyers
- Communicate on regular basis
- Monitor marketing activities
- Incorporate feedback and reevaluate strategy if needed
Review Offer and Reach Agreement
- Discuss and clarify proposed terms and conditions
- Negotiate and work through counteroffers
- Reach Final Agreement
Under Contract to Closing Table
- Deposit of Buyers earnest money
- Oversee inspections and work through issues
- Ensure financing of buyer is moving along smoothly
- Work through all contingencies of the contract
- Get to closing table and sign deed over
After Sale Service
- Provide resources for any sort of relocation assistance needed
- Answer any questions, anytime relating to real estate.
- Goal: To create a client for life.
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Many would be home sellers believe selling their home will save money. It may if you can do it well, but you are up against many challenges right from the get go. As the illustration above shows, 34% of your potential buyers market are finding out about your property through agents. If you are not in the MLS system, how are these agents going to know your property is for sale? In addition, most active and serious buyers are working with an agent thus you will end up having to pay this agents fee, known as a co-broke, 2.5% or 3%.
Saving 2.5% or 3% generally still amounts to a large amount of money for sure, but how do you end of pricing the home, negotiating succesfully and ensuring all is being done with adherance to Maine real estate laws.
The key if you are going to go it alone is getting internet exposure as this is the 2nd most popular way buyers find homes. Do some google searches for "homes for sale in your city", "your city real estate", etc... These are then the homes you want to get listed on as it is easy to put your home into websites, but if the site can't be found with a simple search at Google, how will it ever be found by potential buyers! A Google Ad words campaign with targeted key word research is one way to get aroudn this though.
A virtual tour with professionaly taken photographs will also help immensely in marketing your home.
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Here are the sites you want to get listed on and if possible be featured on:
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Thanks for reading about selling a home in Maine.
I do hope you reach out and have a great day!
John Herrigel
Maine Real Estate Agent
Green Tree Realty
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