Sellers Services
We employ three different methods in analyzing your home's value. Comparative Market Analysis, Sales Comparison Approach and Broker’s Price Opinion are all different methods for estimating the value of your home. These methods are utilized to pinpoint a price that will maximize your returns while maintaining the highest degree of market desirability.
A physical inspection with measurements must be done to best interpret the value of your home. A firm grasp of the market place and more particular, your neighborhood must be known and utilized in making the determination.
Just as important-The human factor must be factored out! It is your home and the value it has to you is priceless. This is one reason why FSBO (For Sale By Owner) home owners have a difficulties in pricing their home.
How Much Is Your House Worth?
Be Advised: A proper assessment of your home can not be made by filling out an online form.
Some of these comparisons are based on US census information that is 10 years old and claim a 10% plus/minus accuracy at best.
All real estate is local in nature. Two houses identical in construction and property but located in different neighborhoods will result in different values.
No comparison should be more than a year old-preferably no older than 6 months!
What can a year make in house values?? In 2004 the average sales price of a home in Carteret County was $200,602. In 2005 the average sales prices was $273,981.
That’s a 37% increase in one year!
How We Market Your Home?
Price
When a property is priced correctly it is most probable to sell within an expected time period while maintaining the greatest return for you. Price a property too high and nothing happens. Price it to low and it will sell-but you will greatly diminish your returns.
Appearance
The key here is keeping everything clean and neat, both inside and out. It shows a concern for the properties “well being”. This builds trust and confidence in the property by prospective buyers.
Exposure
The fact is, if no one knows about your property, then no one will buy it! But the key is not to try to reach as many people as possible. That’s a waste of time. The key is to reach as many qualified buyers as possible, with the information they need and in a fashion they are accustomed to. Today’s society utilizes Television, Video and the Internet to get their information. Hitchcock Realty is the only real estate agency in the area to harness all three to sell your property.
Why one house sells fast and a like kind dosen't? Here are the three essential steps in getting your property sold!
Media Experts
Award winning media specialists who get your property sold!
No other Real Estate Agency employs such an extensive and results driven marketing strategy as Hitchcock Realty. We advantage the most utilized media in today’s society, television, video, websites and internet streaming media.
We invite you to compare our marketing strategies to what other listing agencies have to offer. It will become quickly apparent that Hitchcock Realty is the leader of the real estate media and marketing along the Crystal Coast of North Carolina.
Marketing Plan:
Our Goals Are:
1. To sell your property with price and conditions that benefit you best
2. To make the home selling process easy for you
3. To help you get to where you want to go on time
Cable Television, Feature Length Video’s and Streaming Internet Media has proven To Be The Most Effective Marketing Tools In Selling Property & Soliciting Buyer’s
1. Pricing. We will price your home based on a competitive market analysis and a Broker’s Price Opinion. Hitchcock Realty utilizes all relevant statistical survey information and documented transactions information in composing a most accurate sales price and period of time for the sale.
2. Home Inspection. We will have your house inspected by a licensed home inspector to reduce your risk of any surprises when negotiating with a buyer and to make your transaction smoother. Hitchcock Realty will pay for the inspection as part of our service to you. (A $400-600 cost).
3. Staging. We will assist you with preparing your home for sale. First impressions are everything and buyers form an opinion about your home within seconds. Our staging program is a valuable free service for our clients.
4. Property Video. We will produce a professional video presentation about your home by our nationally acclaimed video production team. Not a “virtual tour”, but a feature length video that will be made available to the public via DVD’s, Cable Television and accessed from around the world via the World Wide Web.
5. Television. Your property will be featured in all episodes of our television program, “Crystal Coast Real Estate Television”.
This half hour program airs every Monday thru Friday night at 8:00 PM on Cable Channel 25 and reaches 50,000 households each night!
Click here to watch on line.
6. Internet. Hitchcock Realty owns and operates award winning web sites targeting qualified residents, vacationers, buyers & sellers of coastal properties.
Our Websites:
- Hitchcock Realty www.hitchcockrealty.net the home web site for Hitchcock Realty averages attracting 40 new potential buyer’s every day!!
- Saltwater Catch www.SaltwaterCatch.com this web site is viewed by 200,000 people every month creating over 1 Million Hits a Day!!
- North Carolina Coastal News www.nccoastalnews.com geared towards the interests and concerns of coastal residents and would be residents, attracting 100’s of viewers everyday!
7. Multiple Listing Service. (MLS) We will enter your home’s information into two different MLS Regions giving you maximum exposure to all real estate brokers in the area! Hitchcock Realty belongs to the Crystal Coast Board of Realtors and to the New Bern/Pamlico Board of Realtors.
8. Realtor.com In addition-Your property will be featured as an Enhanced Listing at Realtor.com the nation’s largest real estate web site as well as four other web sites.
9. Magazines. Your home will be showcased in the RAD HAL Magazine, the Crystal Coast HOMES Magazine, the Homes and Land Magazine covering the entire Inner Banks from Virginia to Wilmington and the Coastal Mariner Magazine with distribution along the Atlantic Seaboard.
10. Direct Campaign to TOP Realtors. We will e-mail your home’s information and video to the top Realtors in our market and to brokers in metropolitan areas that supply buyer’s to our area.
11. For Sale Sign. We will place one of Hitchcock Realty signs on your property.
12. Brochure Box. We will place a brochure box along side the Hitchcock Realty sign. We will provide you with extra brochures to refill the box.
13. Lock Box. We will place an electronic lock box on your property to increase showings and provide you with the security of knowing who has shown your home.
14. Open Houses. Hitchcock Realty will hold a Broker’s Open House that brings top selling broker’s in to view your property. We will also hold a Public Open House (with your permission) bringing in potential buyers from the immediate area.
15. Counter Display. We will prepare an informational notebook containing most things a buyer will want to know – survey, school information, utilities, homeowner’s association information, pre-inspection information, contract, etc. This information will give buyer’s the confidence to write a contract.
16. Buyer/Seller Survey. As part of the counter display, we will have a survey card for Realtors and their buyers to fill out and give us feedback on their showing of your home. They will leave the cards in a bowl on the counter so you can review their comments. We will offer a drawing for a gift as an incentive for them to fill out the survey card.
17. Relocation Program. Information on your property will be put in Hitchcock Realty relocation packages. This will increase your exposure to relocating buyers-80% of our buyers are coming from outside of county.
18. Weekly Contact. We will contact you weekly to give you an update on the marketing of your home and answer any questions you may have.
Contact Hitchcock Realty Today and Get Your Property Sold!
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