Sellers

Why Use Team Hallquist to Sell Your Home?

Selling your home requires serious consideration on choosing the best agent and firm to fit your needs.  Not all things are created equal and that is also true for real estate agents.  In the Central Valley, there are in excess of twelve hundred licensed real estate agents. 

Knowing which one to choose may seem like a difficult choice! But it should not be, and here is why...

 

Selling your home consists of 3 activities... and we are market leaders at all of them. 

1) Marketing.
2) Competitive Market Analysis.
3) Communication Activity.

Let's break out each of these and see how we can distinguish ourselves from the pack in your search for a real estate professional. 

                                                     

Marketing

Selling your home is more than just sticking a sign out in the yard.  An agent has to bring as much attention as possible to your home to reach as many potential buyers as possible.  How? 

  • Did you know that 85% of home buyers start their search on the internet?  This website shows up on the front page of Google for all sorts of commonly used real estate searches.  Why?  Because Google knows what you know- out of hundreds of websites, only a few are worth visiting.  Search for Stockton California MLS Search, or Stockton real estate...it doesn't matter, you will find this website.  So will your home buyers.

  • Your listing, with a detailed description, will appear on websites used by thousands of home buyers per day.

  • Entry into the Multiple Listing System used by real estate professionals.

  • Feature sheets and a write-up on your home. 

  • Yard sign with flyers.

  • A Sign Rider with a barcode for smart phones for instant information on your home.

  • Open-houses, at your convenience.

  • Virtual tours so your buyers can see your home in all it's glory.

  • E-cards featuring your home will be sent to our database of over 500 prospects.

  • A blast out of your home listing, using social networking sites.

 

The Best Online Marketing in the Stockton CA area starts here!

     

Over 80% of buyers start their home search on the Internet.  With that piece of information, we knew that to help sellers and buyers we needed a website that offered classic design, easy user interface, that gave the ability to easily share information with you.  As a seller, your home will be listed not only on the traditional Multiple Listing Service, your home will also be easily accessible to buyers on the TeamHallquist.com user-friendly MLS search. 

Today's real estate market requires a technologically savvy agent that can leverage a strong knowledge of e-commerce to maximize potential buyer views.  We have replaced the old school of thought on real estate advertising to a whole new level.  Print media is expensive and has a low ROI.  Open houses are hit-or-miss.  Flyers don't get a lot of views.  A yard sign and a few balloons don't cut it.   Don't misunderstand, we  haven't stopped using these methods, but they are not enough in today's market.  Internet is the 'gold standard' when it comes to marketing. 

 

Competitive Market Analysis

 

This is perhaps the most underestimated and most critical step in selling your home.  THIS STEP IS CRITICAL.  A listing price under market cheats you of money.  The other error is listing your house for too much.  Overpriced homes produce: 

  • Few Showings & Fewer Prospects

  • Limited Financing

  • Less Realtor Participation

  • Negative Marketing Image

  • Lower Offers or No Offers

  • More Seller Concessions & Lower Net Price to Seller

  • Wasted Time, Energy, and Money! Your holding costs are huge!  Paying a mortgage, and maintaining property that you don't want to live in anymore?  Ouch!

Be aware:  Some real estate agents will offer to list your home for more than it's worth in order to convince you to give them the listing.  Don't fall for it!!  Do you really think they are that good?  If you are lucky you will get less money than you expected.  If you are not lucky you will lose a lot of money.  On the other hand, we have been forced to turn down listings because homeowners wanted too much.  You don't want to see signs languishing in front of overpriced homes for months on end.  Our reputation and ethics are worth more to than a lost sale.

The key to pricing a home is knowing the market.  List your house for its fair market value- gaining the best earnings.  In the end you want to price your home for the most the market can bear, and still sell the home quickly.  We have got to avoid those extended holding costs!!  That's what we are here for:  to help you do that.

 

Activity

So simple, and yet so many professionals are so bad at it.  Return phone calls, get paperwork done on time, present offers in a timely manner...everything you would expect!  You would not believe the lazy realtors we encounter on a daily basis.  We excel at going the extra mile- helping you with repairs and suggestions, coordinating activities if you are out of town, etc.