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Lake Park Top Rated Flat Fee Real Estate Broker

You have worked extremely hard on building up the equity on your home over time, so why give more of it away than you have to when you sell it?

With our unique flat-fee listing model you get to have all of the positives of working with a full-service broker, while enjoying the savings that come with working with a flat-fee broker.

Simply move the slider along to the level that closely matches your home value to see how much you could save when you select to sell your home with LISTED Realty…

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*Note: savings compared to a 3% listing commission for comparison.  

We’re Not Just About Saving You Money, But We Also Want To EXCEED All Your Expectations!

There is a minimum expectation that all sellers ought to have when they select a broker to sell their home, however at LISTED Realty we believe that we must ALWAYS give our BEST effort for every single home-seller that we work with. There are no corners cut with what we do, no matter the value of a house. Our major goal is to sell every property that is trusted to us as quickly as possible, for the best price possible – and doing it all while saving our clients money.

How do we do that? It’s simple, we use the latest real estate technology to get as many eyes on our customers homes as possible – and then, we save you money by charging a flat-fee instead of a percentage of the selling price of your home for the work that we do. Over the years we have saved our customers tens of thousands of dollars in listing commissions by using this model, and we want to do the same for you too!

Why I Chose Listed Realty

Callum GardnerWhen I became a licensed real estate agent I preferred to join a brokerage that had modern ideas. Since I came from a real estate photography and videography background, I was contacted by a several larger brokerages who asked me to join their companies. I did go and speak to a few of them, and as excellent as they all sounded, the one thing that struck me was that all of them were was saying the same thing (but using different words). Each company that I spoke to said they were different from their competitors but none of them could explain anything specific that made them different , apart from their name, or that they were part of a big franchise or they were a small independent boutique agency (both of which have pros and cons). When it related to the services that were on offer to their customers, there really was no recognizable difference.

Prior to joining LISTED Realty, I did work for a couple of other brokers, but I can’t say that I was ever completely happy because I really was always a small fish in very large ponds struggling to be noticed among the bigger fish who had been there a lot longer. I I have been with LISTED Realty for a little over a year now and have sold a number of homes for my clients, literally saving them thousands of dollars every time. The satisfaction that I get when I sell a home and show my clients how much money they have saved in commissions is immeasurable, and something I plan on continuing to do for a long time.  Callum Gardner Realtor® Tel: (239) 223-8224

Check Out Some of the Great Homes we have sold…and the Savings Our Customers Have Achieved!
SOLD
4875 E Riverside Dr, Fort Myers, FL 33905
$416,500
2 bed | 3 bath | 1,130 sqft

Ron and Denise saved $8995*

SOLD
11299 Callaway Greens Dr, Fort Myers, FL 33913
$265,000
3 bed | 2 bath | 1,688 sqft

Steve and Karen saved $4450*

SOLD
8771 Estero Blvd #301, Bonita Springs, FL 33931
$311,000
1 bed | 1 bath | 780 sqft

David and Lisa saved $5830*

* when compared to paying a 3% listing fee

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More About Lake Park

Lake Park is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population was 8,155 at the 2010 census. As of 2018, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 8,605.

Percentage Fee Broker v Flat-Fee Broker

When offering a house, it’s crucial to understand the different ways that you can save money on your commission. For example, some representatives charge flat charges, while others require sellers to pay them a percentage commissions based off of just how much they sell their property for. So which is the better option for you?

What Does A Seller’s Agent Do To Earn Their Commission?

There are numerous reasons why working with a representative might be a better choice than attempting to handle the sale of your home yourself. Agents have access and insight into what it requires to efficiently market a house. When it comes to setting the sales price of your home it’s important to price it properly if you wish to decrease the variety of days that it stays unsold. Representatives use what is referred to as a comparative market analysis (CMA) utilizes various types of local data to determine various rates that your home might cost, depending on whether you are looking for a fast sale, or are prepared to wait it out in order get top dollar. In addition, when setting prices by themselves, property owners tend to utilize psychological information which actually has no bearing on what a home purchaser wants to pay, or what a mortgage organization is willing to lend on such a house. Real estate representatives understand this and price the houses appropriately.

The 2nd reason you ought to think about working with a real estate representative is because they will negotiate the sale in your place. Settlement can be complicated, and it’s important that you have someone who has experience in these types of settlements in your corner. It’s extremely likely that many purchasers will be dealing with an experience representative (considering that there is no cost for them to have this advantage), and a great agent is going to make use of every weakness that you might have when it concerns negotiating in order to get a much better deal for their client.

Third, representatives carry Errors & Omissions (E&O) insurance. The complexities of a property transaction and the exacting details can be a breeding ground for errors. These are typically small or unintended but still liable to trigger legal proceedings if the buyer is not satisfied with any issue discovered after the sale of the home has actually been finished. E&O Insurance protects versus any possible liability from errors dedicated in your place during the sales procedure and if they take place to be major then E&O Insurance will cover the legal expenses.

What Is An Agents Cost When It Comes To Selling A Home?

Excellent agents know how to efficiently market a home in all type of market conditions. The truth is innovation is making the online house selling process a lot easier and far more effective. Innovation enables agents to note a house in less time, with less manual labor needed on their part. For a lot of agents this has actually been not shown in the quantity that they charge their sellers for listing their homes. However, flat-fee brokers do acknowledge this by charging a lower quantity than would be paid when compared to be charged 2-3% of a home’s list prices as commission.

No matter whether a commission is being charged as a percentage or a flat-fee, the exact same quantity of effort ought to be made to market a home so that it offers rapidly and at the best price possible. In a perfect world this would be a reality, but regrettably it does not seem to be the case. If you speak with 5 various representatives regarding the sales of your home, you will probably get 5 various descriptions on precisely what they will do to assist you get your house sold. Some representatives do as low as taking the photographs of the house, along with the information of the home, and put them onto the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) database, and simply await purchasing representatives to bring prospective buyers to view the house. It becomes worse when some representatives choose to bypass the expenses of professional photography to make sure the home exists along with possible online, and will take pictures with their mobile phones and use those. So their costs would be very little.

Then you have the more expert representatives who will invest their own cash (or their brokers’ cash) to not just have professional pictures, but likewise video, 3D virtual tours, together with paper and online marketing (i.e. they are actually making an effort to try and find a purchaser in addition to selling a house). With these agents the costs for marketing a home will be hundreds, and depending on the place, maybe even thousands of dollars. So the decision on precisely just how much an agent is willing to spend on marketing dollars really will depend on the possible return on their investment when your home eventually sells. Therefore, a representative who is going to earn 3% commission, is probably more likely to invest more money than an agent who is only going to earn 2%.

So with this being stated, you might ask with that reasoning, won’t a percentage based representative invest more cash on marketing than a flat-fee commissioned agent? A great deal of time that is likely to be the case, and you will discover flat-fee brokers out there who will honestly market that they do nothing more than include your residential or commercial property details and pictures that you have to provide into the MLS. Then you have full-service flat-fee brokers like LISTED Realty in Fort Myers who offer the exact same services that you would anticipate from a percentage based broker. As a representative with LISTED Realty, I offer expert photography, professional videography, a 3D virtual tour and internet marketing for all of my listings no matter how much your home is going to be cost, since I think it’s my task to do whatever in my power to help get a house offered rapidly and effectively. Just how much commission I make would not be a driving factor for my marketing efforts.

So, Which Is The Best Option– A Percentage Based Broker Or A Flat-Fee Broker?

Plainly any home seller, when they pick a representative to help them offer their homes is performance and value. There is no point in cutting the quantity that you will pay in commission if you choose an agent who can’t offer your home and it rests on the marketplaces for months and months, and you find yourself continuing to pay a home mortgages, insurance coverages, taxes, and so on, which work out to be more than the extra commission you would have paid to a much more effective representative who could sell your house quicker. Ideally, you would have the best of both worlds, where you can have the total suite of sales, marketing and support services of your agent and their broker, however paying as little in agents’ commission as you can.

When you talk to possible agents that you may wish to deal with, don’t only ask them for specifics on how they’re going to market the home for you, and what extra administrative assistance is being used, likewise inquire for something called a Seller’s Net Sheet, which provides a total breakdown of all the expenses associated with offering a specific house to determine how much the seller can anticipate to bank as soon as their home has actually been offered. A Seller’s Net Sheet will consist of all of the representatives’ commissions amongst the other expenses.

As soon as you have all of the info above, then you need to have the ability to make an informed decision on which choice is best for you.

If you are thinking of selling your home in Lake Park or any of the surrounding areas and would like to know more about the flat-fee, full broker service from LISTED Realty please call me at (239) 223-8224 and let’s schedule an appointment to talk.