The First Step
The first, and most important step in selling your home is choosing your Realtor. Shepard’s Select Properties’ Realtors are all knowledgeable of the area and have developed relationships over their many years in service with all other real estate companies in the area.
Maxiumum Exposure
These relationships, as well as our website and Internet marketing, large database of prospective buyers, and exposure on the Statewide Multiple Listing Service, ensure that your property receives maximum exposure and that all agents in the area are familiar with your property when working with prospective buyers.
Extensive Marketing
Although we believe that a presence in the local newspapers and advertising in other publications such as Downeast Magazine, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal are important to the sale of your property, our focus on Internet marketing allows us to reach a much larger group of prospective buyers for your property. All of our listings are posted on many different search engine sites. If someone is considering purchasing property in Maine, you, as a Seller, want to be listed with Shepard’s Select Properties, Inc.
Setting the price for your property can be difficult. Agents competing for your business will often provide you with unreasonable expectations regarding pricing. Every day you see properties that have been on the market for long periods of time. Why? Most of the time the reason is clear: the property is listed for a price that is far more than what it is worth.
Shepard’s Select Properties, Inc. believes that our clients deserve honest service. Accordingly, our Realtors provide all customers/clients with a professional market analysis in order to appropriately price their property. The asking price is always the seller’s decision. However, our goal is to provide you with honest advice on your property’s value. Our Realtors work very closely with our clients in order to determine the price of the property by providing sellers with options dependent upon how quickly a seller wishes to sell their property.
We at Shepard’s Select Properties, Inc. believe that our job is to provide the best possible service to our clients. Our Realtors strive to make the listing process as convenient for our clients as possible by providing clients with all the necessary forms required by the seller and assisting the client in filling out the form appropriately.
After the paperwork for a listing is complete, our Realtors advise clients on how to maximize the appeal of their property so that it will attract potential buyers. We don’t just want to list your property, we want to sell it! Our Realtors will then put together an information package on your property that will be posted on our website, various search engines, and will be provided to prospective buyers and other local agencies. The property is then listed in the Statewide Multiple Listing Service for maximum exposure and is exhibited in our “catalog” of current offerings, a tasteful color brochure that gets distributed to prospective buyers.
Once an offer is made on your property, your Realtor will immediately present you with the offer. With your permission, our Realtor will then advise any other prospective buyers, or agents who may have prospective buyers, that there has been an offer made on the property. This is an important way for us, as Realtors, to ensure that our clients are receiving the best possible offers from prospective buyers and, quite often, allows our clients to be in a situation where they can negotiate to receive the best possible price for their property.
So...Your property is now under contract and you have probably retained a lawyer to represent you in the transaction. This is the point where we feel many clients are left abandoned by their real estate agents. Realtors at Shepard’s Select Properties, Inc. believe that assisting our clients through the entire selling process is of upmost importance in maintaining their reputation and integrity. Accordingly, our Realtors take pride in assisting our sellers through the closing process by communicating with attorneys, home inspectors, surveyors, banks, financing companies, and other necessary contacts to ensure that the closing goes as smoothly as possible for their clients.
Realtors at Shepard’s Select Properties, Inc. believe that the most important feedback we can receive regarding our service is from our clients. Accordingly, we like to communicate with our clients subsequent to their sale to ensure that they are satisfied with the service they received and to welcome any suggestions our clients may have regarding their experience.
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