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What to do when your buyer wants to make a lowball property offer

Housing Wire

What constitutes a “lowball” offer, when is it appropriate or not appropriate and how can you encourage your buyer clients to stop insisting on offering a price that’s unlikely to result in an offer? By definition, a lowball offer is an offer that is significantly below market value. See the difference?

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Real estate appraisals: What agents should know

Housing Wire

You’ve found a house for your buyer or a buyer for the home you’re selling. Appraisals make for realistic pricing You may want to encourage clients who are selling their homes to get an appraisal before they list their home. This will help you set a realistic price and manage your sellers’ expectations.

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Loosening The Knot

Appraisal Buzz

It is the work of a therapist and their client to carefully untie those knots. The transaction is a complex interplay between buyer and seller. The representative price of this hypothetical interaction (the product of the synthesis) is known as market value.

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Market Value: Who Says What It Is?

McKissock

On the way he needed to drop off an appraisal report to a lender client. He handed the report to his client who quickly turned to the bottom of page two, and said: “Wow Ben, I was sure this one would have come in at least $20,000 higher.” So, this is a pretend sale between a typically motivated buyer and a seller.

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4 Ways to Help Manage Client Expectations

McKissock

The reality, however, is many agents struggle to properly set and manage the client’s expectations of how the chaos is going to work and how the process is going to play out. Managing client expectations is critical, and sadly, often overlooked as part of the agent/client relationship. As agents, we know better.

Clients 87
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Unanswered Questions – Part 1

Appraisal Buzz

Trying to meet deadlines, keep my clients informed, and put out a quality product in this busy market is enough to make my head spin. Lately, though, I’ve been trying to carve out some extra time to find out about what other appraisers are saying and doing in this unusual market. But what offer will the seller accept $400,000.

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7 Common Questions Clients Have Before Selling Their Home

McKissock

Between the complexities of the real estate market and the changeable landscape of financing and property value, your clients likely have an abundance of questions regarding the sale of their home. We took a poll of some recent sellers and found the following questions to be the most frequent.

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