LISTING WITH US

No other team or brokerage in Michiana offers the comprehensive listing services we bring to every client.

WANT TO SELL YOUR HOME FASTER, FOR MORE MONEY?

Our full service approach to listing homes, above and beyond what is offered by any other agent or team in Michiana, has been developed by listening to the needs of our clients and working tirelessly to provide solutions. If you want to get every possible dollar from the sale of your home, a cookie-cutter approach just doesn’t work in today’s housing market. That’s why in addition to our core strategies we have additional services that can be used to tailor a plan for success based on your home and your needs.

OUR 4 PART APPROACH TO MARKETING HOMES

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UNDERSTANDING EXPOSURE

Our strategies are based on understanding how buyers are exposed to the homes they purchase and then aggressively leveraging those avenues to help your home sell quickly for top dollar. To do that we use a combination of traditional methods and web marketing.

It starts with understanding how buyers are introduced to the homes they purchase and identifying the factors that influence their level of interest.

It doesn’t stop until you’re sitting at the closing table.

The name of the game is getting your home in front of as many potential buyers as possible. But if you're not doing so in a way which maximizes its desirability and perceived value, you're just spinning your wheels. The real keys to success happen before your home ever goes to market. Effective pricing is crucial, as is making smart adjustments that will broaden your home’s appeal, ensuring it is not dated, in good repair, well staged, and then having it professionally photographed.

Once the listing is made live in the MLS database, our team goes into overdrive. The listing is brought over to the top real estate sites on the web, showcased through beautiful photos and a video tour or 3D virtual tour, and boosted through extensive paid promotion on every major consumer site. A new listing email campaign is sent to every local Realtor as well as our own lists of prospects. Your listing will be posted to multiple social media networks with unique content tailored to each platform and demographically targeted to directly reach tens of thousands of potential buyers through paid promotions.

But we don't overlook the traditional marketing avenues either. We place for sale signs in your yard and directional signs at nearby major intersections. Within the first 21 days (if your home isn’t in contract yet) we will host an open house complete with large, attention-grabbing flags on site and at nearby intersections and custom fliers showcasing its best features will be distributed to every guest. Mass emails continue to go out for these open houses as well as for pricing adjustments and recurring awareness campaigns. While your home is listed for sale we will constantly evaluate our campaign performance and buyer feedback to make any necessary adjustments to our positioning.

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HIGH END PHOTOS

Ensuring your home looks fantastic in the listing photographs can instill a favorable impression in the minds of potential buyers before they ever even schedule a showing, creating positive momentum to build upon. Our team’s dedicated staff photographer is second to none.

We brought the area’s premier real estate photographer onto our team to photograph every home we sell. All of our clients receive top-tier photos regardless of the price of their home.

Because you only have one chance to make a first impression.

LISTINGS WITH PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS:

  • Receive 61% more online views
  • Receive 20% more showings
  • Sell for up to $20000 more

Today’s buyers have very high visual expectations and very short attention spans. At any given moment there are hundreds of homes for sale in the Michiana market – and quality photos are the most effective way to make your listing stand out online – where 95% of home buyers start their searches. It’s easy to get excited about a home that looks fantastic, and conversely it’s easy to feel indifferent when a home looks just so-so. You want people excited about seeing your home. That’s why professionally photographed homes are not just more likely to sell, but sell faster, and at higher prices. Our award winning staff photographer ensures that every single home our team lists looks fantastic, creating a lasting positive impression of the homes we sell that gives our clients a leg up on their competition.

Read our blog post: REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHY: MAKING OR BREAKING YOUR LISTING?

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FOCUS ON WEB

44% of home buyers find the home they purchase online – and that figure is constantly increasing. To capitalize on this trend we utilize a constantly evolving range of tactics across multiple web platforms and social media outlets that consistently outperforms the competition.

THERE ARE 3 CORE COMPONENTS TO OUR DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGY:

Let’s take a look at one key medium within each class.

REAL ESTATE WEBSITES (Spotlight: Realtor.com)

On the fastest growing RE site on the web, on average our listings gather over 10,000 views & are displayed in over 130,000 search results monthly. Through paid promotion our listings are displayed at the top of relevant results so they are seen first and seen often.

FIGURE 1: REALTOR.COM WEEKLY DISPLAYS & VIEWS


SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSURE (Spotlight: Facebok)

On the most widely used social media site in existence we promote our clients’ listings using targeted sets of criteria that ensure each post reaches as many potential buyers as possible. Through paid promotion most posts receive between 10,000 to 25,000 total views with a 48% average engagement rate.

FIGURE 2: FACEBOOK DAILY PAID POST REACH


REALTOR OUTREACH (Spotlight: Mailchimp)

With mobile optimized emails going out to every Realtor in the local and adjacent markets on a regular basis – not just when a property is listed, has an open house, or price a change – we make sure your home stays on the radar of buyers’ agents and their actively searching buyers.

FIGURE 3: MAILCHIMP DAILY EMAIL OPENS

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INTELLIGENT PRICING

The most important factors in selling your home for top dollar are maximizing its perceived value and then pricing it accordingly. Our pricing strategy is engineered to capitalize on the dynamics of the market and bring the highest possible return to sellers at closing .

An in-depth understanding of the Michiana market, its dynamics, and the psychology of home buyers build the foundation for the strategies we use to advise our clients on their optimum list price.

At any given time there are several buyers actively searching for a home similar to yours, and your home will show up in all of their searches the day it is listed. This is why a property attracts the most attention from potential buyers right out of the gate (see Figure 1). Once this peak interest period has passed, activity significantly diminishes. Now the only new sets of eyes are the slow influx of new buyers entering the marketplace and less motivated buyers who are less diligent in their searches. Capitalizing on this initial interest period is the most powerful method of helping to ensure your property sells quickly and doesn’t die on the market.

FIGURE 1: ACTIVITY VS. TIMING

At any given time there are several buyers actively searching for a home similar to yours, and your home will show up in all of their searches the day it is listed. This is why a property attracts the most attention from potential buyers right out of the gate (see Figure 1). Once this peak interest period has passed, activity significantly diminishes. Now the only new sets of eyes are the slow influx of new buyers entering the marketplace and less motivated buyers who are less diligent in their searches. Capitalizing on this initial interest period is the most powerful method of helping to ensure your property sells quickly and doesn’t die on the market.

FIGURE 2: SALE PRICE VS. TIMING

This is important in realizing the highest possible sale price for your home (see Figure 2) because once a listing has grown stale on the market, lower quality offers gain greater appeal and price cuts often become necessary to stimulate lackluster demand. The sense of urgency and competition that drives prices up is long gone at this point. Therefore your home has the highest chances for a it’s best sale when it is newly listed and the price is reasonable.

FIGURE 3: BUYERS VS. ASKING PRICE

This is due in part to the fact that when a home is listed at a price that is significantly above market value, many prospective buyers who would otherwise be prime candidates for a purchase just won’t see it (see Figure 3). Think about it. Serious buyers are looking for homes in the price range that they can afford. If you list your home significantly above market value, just blindly hoping that someone will come along and overpay, the buyers who would be most interested may not even see it. That is why establishing the list price of your property based upon its likely sale price properly exposes it to prospective buyers, balancing your chances for a sale while ensuring a final price that maximizes your return at closing.

But you shouldn’t misunderstand this to mean that your home is worth exactly as much as the similar one down the street. By ensuring your home is well prepared for market and then maximizing the impact of every aspect of your home’s presentation – we can substantially increase its perceived value. Their is usually about a +/- 10% range of values that similar homes sell for, and we can push your price to the top of that spread by making sure it shows as superior to its competition and then aggressively marketing it. Competition and a sense of urgency are the most powerful factors if you’re looking to push up the sale price of your home. The best way to sell for higher than market value is to list at market value and let buyers drive up the price through competition.

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