South Venice Top Rated Flat Fee Real Estate Broker
You’ve worked hard on increasing the equity on your home over time, so why give more of it away than you have to when you sell it?
Our unique full-service flat-fee model gives 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 can potentially save when you select to sell your home with LISTED Realty…
*Note: savings compared to a 3% listing commission for comparison.
We’re Not Only 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 choose a broker to sell their home, but at LISTED Realty we believe that we should ALWAYS offer our MAXIMUM effort for every single home-seller that we work with. There is no cutting corners with what we do, regardless of the value of a home. Our major goal is to sell every home that is trusted to us as rapidly as possible, for the best sales price possible – and doing it all while saving our clients money.
How do we do that? We simply use the most up-to-date real estate technology to take your home to the eyes of as many potential home-buyers as possible – and then, to save you money, our commission isn’t charged as a percentage of your home’s sales price, but instead you simply pay us a low flat-fee for the work that we do. Over the years we have saved our customers many 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
When I became a licensed real estate agent I wanted to join a broker that had modern ideas. Coming from a real estate photography and videography background, I was contacted by a number of larger brokerages who asked me to join their companies. I did go and talk to a number of them, and as excellent as they all appeared to be, the one thing that struck me was that all of them were was saying the exact same thing (but using different words). Each company that I spoke to said they were different from their competitors but no one could explain anything specific that made all the difference , other than 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 came down to the services that were on offer to their customers, there really was no recognizable difference.
Prior to joining LISTED Realty, I worked for a couple of other brokers, but I can’t say that I was ever completely happy because I was always the small fish in a very large pond struggling to be noticed among the bigger fish who were swimming with me. I decided I needed to make change and happened upon LISTED Realty with their model of selling homes for flat-fee commissions, and became intrigued with the idea. While doing my research I spoke to a number of agents, all of who tried to steer me away from this model – not because it was inferior and offered less to the home sellers, but because it meant I would earn less commission for each sale that I made. I know this fact would probably steer a lot of agents away from wanting to offer it, but I remember when I was growing up my dad always used to tell me that when I start working, my priority should always be about finding something that I love, and always doing the best job that I possibly can. In other words, I should always take pride in what I do. He always stressed that money shouldn’t be the number 1 priority for me because if I focused on the first two things, money would eventually come, but if I focused on money first, it didn’t mean the other two would follow.
Once I spoke to the broker at LISTED Realty, I quickly realized that her goals for the brokerage were completely in line with my own, and her passion was not about earning as much money as possible, but instead on growing a brokerage with a reputation for being trustworthy and offering a quality service at a fair price. Since being with LISTED Realty I 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!
2 bed | 3 bath | 1,130 sqft
Ron and Denise saved $8995*
3 bed | 2 bath | 1,688 sqft
Steve and Karen saved $4450*
1 bed | 1 bath | 780 sqft
David and Lisa saved $5830*
* when compared to paying a 3% listing fee
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South Venice is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The population was 13,949 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Bradenton–Sarasota–Venice Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Why a South Venice Flat-Fee MLS Broker May Be a Better Option For You
When selling a home, it’s important to understand the different ways that you can save money on your commission. For instance, some representatives charge flat fees, while others require sellers to pay them a percentage commissions based off of how much they sell their property for. So which is the much better option for you?
What Does A Seller’s Agent Do To Earn Their Commission?
There are lots of reasons dealing with an agent might be a better choice than attempting to deal with the sale of your house yourself. Agents have access and insight into what it requires to successfully market a home. When it comes to setting the sales price of your home it’s important to price it correctly if you wish to decrease the variety of days that it stays unsold. Agents use what is referred to as a comparative market analysis (CMA) utilizes different kinds of local information to figure out different prices that your home may 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, homeowners tend to use emotional information which really has no bearing on what a home purchaser wants to pay, or what a home loan institution is willing to lend on such a house. Property agents know this and cost the houses appropriately.
The second reason you must think about dealing with a property agent is due to the fact that they will work out the sale on your behalf. Settlement can be made complex, and it’s important that you have someone who has experience in these types of negotiations on your side. It’s extremely likely that most buyers will be dealing with an experience representative (considering that there is no charge for them to have this advantage), and a great representative is going to exploit every weak point that you might have when it pertains to working out in order to get a better deal for their client.
Third, representatives carry Errors & Omissions (E&O) insurance coverage. The complexities of a property deal and the exacting information can be a breeding ground for errors. These are frequently small or inadvertent however still liable to trigger legal proceedings if the buyer is not pleased with any issue found after the sale of the house has actually been finished. E&O Insurance secures against any prospective liability from mistakes dedicated on your behalf during the sales process and if they occur to be major then E&O Insurance will cover the legal costs.
What Is An Agents Cost When It Comes To Selling A Home?
Excellent agents understand how to successfully market a home in all sort of market conditions. The truth is technology is making the online home offering procedure much easier and far more effective. Innovation enables representatives to list a house in less time, with less manual work required on their part. For the majority of representatives this has been not reflected in the quantity that they charge their sellers for listing their homes. Nevertheless, flat-fee brokers do acknowledge this by charging a lower quantity than would be paid when compared to be charged 2-3% of a house’s sales price as commission.
Despite whether a commission is being charged as a percentage or a flat-fee, the exact same quantity of effort should be made to market a house so that it offers rapidly and at the best rate possible. In a perfect world this would be a truth, but sadly it doesn’t appear to be the case. If you talk to 5 different representatives concerning the sales of your house, you will most likely get 5 different descriptions on exactly what they will do to assist you get your home sold. Some agents do as little as taking the pictures of the house, in addition to the information of the house, and put them onto the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) database, and just await purchasing agents to bring potential buyers to view the home. It worsens when some agents choose to forego the costs of professional photography to make sure the home exists as well as possible online, and will take photographs with their cellphones and utilize those. So their costs would be very little.
Then you have the more professional representatives who will invest their own cash (or their brokers’ cash) to not only have expert pictures, however also video, 3D virtual tours, in addition to paper and online marketing (i.e. they are in fact making an effort to attempt and find a purchaser as well as selling a home). With these agents the expenses for marketing a home will be hundreds, and depending upon the place, maybe even thousands of dollars. So the decision on precisely how much an agent wants to invest in marketing dollars actually will depend upon the potential return on their investment when your house ultimately sells. Therefore, a representative who is going to make 3% commission, is most likely most likely to spend more cash than a representative who is just going to make 2%.
So with this being said, you might ask with that reasoning, will not a percentage based agent spend more money on marketing than a flat-fee commissioned representative? A great deal of time that is most likely to be the case, and you will discover flat-fee brokers out there who will honestly advertise that they not do anything more than add your property information and photos that you need to offer into the MLS. Then you have full-service flat-fee brokers like LISTED Realty in Fort Myers who use the precise same services that you would expect from a percentage based broker. As a representative with LISTED Realty, I supply expert photography, expert videography, a 3D virtual trip and online marketing for all of my listings no matter how much the house is going to be sold for, due to the fact that I think it’s my task to do whatever in my power to assist get a house offered quickly and efficiently. Just how much commission I earn 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?
Clearly any house seller, when they pick an agent to help them offer their homes is performance and value. There is no point in cutting the amount that you will pay in commission if you choose a representative who can’t sell your house and it rests on the marketplaces for months and months, and you find yourself continuing to pay a mortgages, insurances, taxes, and so on, which exercise to be more than the extra commission you would have paid to a far more efficient agent who could sell your house quicker. Ideally, you would have the best of both worlds, where you can have the complete suite of sales, marketing and assistance services of your agent and their broker, but paying as little in agents’ commission as you can.
When you talk to potential agents that you may wish to deal with, do not just ask for specifics on how they’re going to market the house for you, and what additional administrative support is being provided, likewise ask them for something called a Seller’s Net Sheet, which provides a total breakdown of all the expenses connected with selling a specific house to compute how much the seller can expect to bank once their home has been offered. A Seller’s Net Sheet will consist of all of the representatives’ commissions among the other expenses.
Once you have all of the information above, then you must have the ability to make an informed choice on which option is best for you.
If you are thinking of selling your home in South Venice 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.