We had a wonderful experience when selling our family home with Walter & Irvine and we got more then the asking price! The service and result we achieved was first class.
We decided to list our home with Walter & Irvine Real Estate based on the service we received from them as potential buyers. The sales consultant while helpful and genuine in helping us find a new home, still put his clients, the vendor's first. Although we didn't purchase through them, we liked knowing that they wouldn't “sell us out” to anyone just to make a sale.
Ensuring our home was only being seen by buyers who had the level of finances the home was worth was important, as we didn't want just anyone walking through our home. Also knowing our home was secure during buyer inspections with ‘private inspections' gave us piece of mind with a young family.
Communication was open both ways and it was easy to get in touch with the agent. We feel the main reason we had such a wonderful experience was we had TRUST in Walter & Irvine and we allowed them to market our home using their marketing model. We also had open conversations and didn't hold anything back knowing they were working for us only.
In the end, we had 3 offers on our property in under 2 weeks and it was sold to the highest bidder.
Here are some tips we think will help when picking an agent.
1. Trust the agent. This will allow you to be open 100% with them.
2. Ask for a certain level of communication either everyday, every few days, once a week. What ever you are going to be comfortable with.
3. Listen to the professional otherwise sell the property yourself. We all think our homes are worth more than what the figures tell us.
4. Read Real Estate Mistakes by Neil Jenman. Helped us to understand the industry in more detail.
5. Ask questions. It's your biggest investment, if you don't understand why they do things differently, ask!
Thank you Kevin and Walter & Irvine Real Estate for successfully selling our home. We will recommend you to anyone thinking of selling real estate.