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In fact, the median home price for sellers who
use an agent ($211,000) was 40% higher than a home sold
on the open-market by an owner ($150,100).
Just 13% of recent sellers sold their home
without professional representation. Only 7% of
these sales were on the open market (cases where
unrepresented sellers were selling to family,
friends and neighbors account for 6 percent of all
recent home sale activity).
Selling a home is a full-time job. And
most of today's buyers are online (nearly 9 of 10
recent buyers used the Internet in their home
search), and unrepresented sellers have no access to
major online marketing avenues such as REALTOR.com
and other sites with large pools of listings to
which buyers are attracted.
Source: National Association of REALTORSŪ,
2009
Here are 9 ways your Illinois REALTORŪ can help
you sell your home or property and save you all of
the time, effort and details of the selling process.
- Provide up-to-date information on the
market, financing terms and competing properties
- Establish the full market value of your
home or property via a current market analysis (CMA)
- Offer suggestions to prepare your house for sale and
make it as appealing as possible to potential buyers
- List your home or property with the
Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
- Market your property aggressively through
advertising and promotion, and a network of other
real estate agents and the public, assuring the
widest range of qualified buyers.
- Handle all selling details, from listing
your home to placing ads, handling inquiries, and
arranging appointments for showing
- Sell your house within your timeframe
- Help negotiate the best deal with your best
interest in mind
- Navigate all the paperwork and take care of
the details to get an accepted offer to closing
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