Is it time to purchase a new home?
What an exciting experience buying a new home can be. You’re creating a new and fresh future for you and your family. Regardless if you’re looking for something bigger, a little more modern, or with an open concept design, you might need a little help getting started. A real estate agent can help you determine exactly what you’re looking for, in what price range, and then truly bring your dream home to light.
Let’s take a look at 7 benefits of working with a real estate agent:
1. Better Access to Homes
Real estate agents know the local market inside and out. Although most homes are listed online for buyers to explore, many sellers want to keep their sale rather private. There are many reasons for this, including nosey neighbours, divorce, financial struggle, health, or just family and friends in general that they might not want to know that they are selling their house.
In these instances, a real estate agent can prove to be quite helpful. They can provide you with exclusive access to a home that otherwise, you may have missed.
On the flip side of the transaction, a real estate agent can help you maximize the value of your home when selling. Find out more in the posts below:
- Our Full-Service Real Estate Team’s Guide to Marketing Your Home
- FSBO vs Real Estate Agent Assisted Sales: What’s Better?
- Should You Use the Same Agent to Sell and Buy a House?
2. Negotiation
An experienced real estate agent can detect issues with a potential home that otherwise, may have gone unnoticed. They will review a home evaluation in great detail, while observing the house for themselves as well.
In instances where there are some areas that require improvement, your real estate agent can help to negotiate. This negotiation process includes having the seller repair the issue as a part of the agreement, or lowering the price to accommodate future renovations.
Without the assistance of an experienced realtor, these problems may go undetected, or your negotiating skills may not result in the outcome you were hoping for. When it comes to your potential future home, it can get emotional.
No matter how level-headed you usually are, buying a home is a very overwhelming and exciting process. Allowing an unbiased realtor with no emotional attachment to the home make the negotiations can prove to be your saving grace when it comes to getting what you want, and most importantly, what you deserve.
3. Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork
There’s no doubt about it, along with the sale of a home comes a copious amount of paperwork. Some of these documents can include the:
• Deed
• Bill of sale
• Affidavit of title
• Seller’s affidavit
• Transfer tax declarations
• Written offer
• Repairs
When it’s all said and done, you’ll probably have an entire shelf dedicated to the purchase of your new home. With all this paperwork comes signatures, records, and multiple copies. A real estate agent can help you track the paperwork, and most importantly, ensure that everything is signed and complete.
Not only that, but most real estate agents will keep your paperwork on file for many years following the sale. Although you should most definitely keep all this paperwork, if you have any questions or concerns down the road, your real estate agent is only a call away.
Most transactions proceed seamlessly, but it pays to be ready for anything. Here’s some of what you can expect to be dealing with:
- What Real Estate Lawyers Do
- How To Negotiate A Real Estate Contract
- The Deal Fell Through. What Happens Now?
4. Save Money
An experienced real estate agent has been around the block once or twice. This means that they will most often bring quite a bit of knowledge to the table when it comes to the value of certain neighbourhoods and homes. In fact, most experienced realtors can estimate the value of a home from the moment that they walk into the door.
They can guide you to the listings that offer the most opportunity to provide you with what you want, and at the price you want, too. In saying that, they can also avoid the listings that most likely won’t provide you with what you’re looking for, saving you both time and money.
5. Guidance and Support
As exciting as purchasing a home can be, it can also prove to be quite emotional and overwhelming as well. A real estate agent can provide you with guidance and support through each step. They will be at your side throughout each home viewing, helping you understand why the design of the home might work for you and your family, or why a home just isn’t worth investing in – due to costly repairs.
Your realtor can help you feel confident and at ease throughout the process, ultimately helping you make a decision that will benefit both you and your family for many years to come.
6. Finding the Right Homes
Is there something unique that you were looking for in your future home? From customized pet bedrooms and backyard landscape designs, to open concept kitchens and elaborate vintage-style fireplaces, if there is something specific that you are looking for in a home, your real estate agent will know where to find it.
Real estate agents don’t want to waste your time or money. They are very attentive when it comes to finding you exactly what you’re looking for in a home.
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7. Avoid Closing Issues
In the final hours before the home is officially yours, you don’t want any bumps in the road. An experienced realtor can foresee any issues from miles away, helping you overcome obstacles or resolve them before it’s too late.
Some closing issues can include:
• Document errors
• Mortgage delays
• Last-minute requests
• Unclear titles
• Issues during the final walkthrough
An experienced realtor can help you resolve these issues, and so much more. Especially when your real estate agent is part of a reputable, strategic, and knowledgeable team. Such as Woolcott Real Estate.
Our team of tactical and highly-qualified real estate agents are truly experts when it comes to the local real estate market. They can help you find the perfect home, and at the perfect price too. Contact our specialists at Woolcott Real Estate if you’re looking for houses for sale in Ancaster, Dundas, Waterdown, Hamilton, and more!
