Real Estate Sellers
For home sellers, we can help you understand buyer expectations and establish realistic pricing for your home under current market conditions.
While Bozeman, Montana and Belgrade, Montana real estate market has shown more resilience than the national market it still requires a seasoned professional to achieve a successful transaction in a reasonable timeframe.
Our goal is to leverage our knowledge and experience to help you get the best price the market will support while still selling your home in a reasonable period of time.
Selling a home can be a big decision. It is our goal to help you sell your property for the highest price attainable, within the time frame that fits your plans, and to make the home-selling process as efficient, stress-free and successful as possible.
- More sellers and buyers choose Prudential Montana Real Estate than any other real estate company in Montana. You will see more Prudential Montana Real Estate yard signs in western Montana than any other real estate company. Prudential Real Estate spends millions of dollars in advertising each year so homebuyers know the sign in your yard.
- With over 26% of homebuyers in our area coming from out-of-state, the name “Prudential Real Estate” offers strong recognition for these buyers.
- Prudential Real Estate has the nation’s highest average property sales price.
When you work with Dave & Reine Broome,Realtors® with Prudential Montana Real Estate, you can expect us to be your resource, guiding every step of the way throughout your home-selling process. The home-selling services your agent will provide you include:
Initial Consultation
- Determining your needs and priorities
- Previewing a marketing plan
- Reviewing your prepared Comparative Market Analysis
- Establish a competitive pricing strategy
Listing Your Home For Sale
- Discuss home enhancement recommendations
- Discuss your property’s marketing plan
Advertising
One real estate agent can represent many potential buyers; therefore, it is important to market your home to other agents as well as the general buying public in order to improve the timeliness of selling your home.
Agent to Agent Advertising
Real Estate agents are able to show potential buyers all of the homes available on the multiple listing service (MLS). By listing your home with Prudential Montana Real Estate, not only will your home be well-represented on the MLS, you will also gain the additional advantages of:
- Placement on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) within 24 hours of listing
- Research of property information: zoning, taxes, flood plain, etc.
- A lock box on your property to allow other agents to show your home
- Placement of a Prudential yard sign at your property
- Scheduling an office tour for other Prudential Montana Real Estate agents’ to view your property
- Weekly Prudential Montana Real Estate sales meeting where agents match information about new listings and potential buyers
- Internal agent to agent communication systems that employs pagers, cell phones, state of the art direct-dial phone/messaging system, Intranet website that instantly informs agents about your listing
- Email marketing that enables your agent to send e-cards notifying other real estate agents about your property being listed
Marketing to the Public
There are many benefits of choosing to work with a Prudential Montana Real Estate agent. Prudential Montana Real Estate spends over half a million dollars each year advertising our clients’ properties. Below are some of the advertising opportunities we provide:
- Fliers with photos, features and descriptions that are distributed in flyer boxes, by request and uploaded to Prumt.com
- Virtual tours
- Listings posted on PrudentialRealEstate.com, Trulia.com,
- Realtor.com (Showcase Listings #1 website for real estate)
- Zillow.com
- YahooRealEstate.com
- Office brochures inserted in area newspapers
- Open houses (Marketed on Websites and Bozeman Chronicle)
- Email Marketing to Potential Buyers and Local Realtors®
- Office open 7-days a week
- Yard Signs
- 24-hour placement on Prudential Montana Real Estate’s website www.prumt.com that has over 300,000+/- annual visitors
- Specialty Marketing Groups: Fine Homes and Ranch & Recreational
- Discuss showings and express to you agent/buyer feedback
- Monitor and pass on results of marketing plan
- Discuss modification of marketing plan and pricing strategy as necessary
Review Offer and Reach Agreement with Buyer
- Discuss and clarify proposed terms and conditions with you
- Negotiate possible counter offer
- Reach final agreement, sign all documents pertaining to the sale
- Prepare net sheet
Completing the Sale
- Negotiation of inspections
- Removal of remaining contingencies
- Title search, preliminary title report
- Scheduling buyer’s final walk-through of property
- Scheduling the closing
- Recording of title
Home Selling Tips
No one has a more important role in the home-selling process than you. Here are some ways your participation can contribute to a successful sale:
- Maintain the property in ready-to-show condition
- Ensure that the house is easily accessible to real estate professional (lock box and key).
- Try to be flexible in the scheduling of showings.
- When you are not at home, let an agent know how you can be reached in case an offer is received.
- If approached directly by a buyer who is not represented by a real estate professional, please contact the agent. Do not allow them into the property unescorted.
- Remove or lock up valuables, jewelry, cash and prescription medications.
- If possible, do not be present when the property is being shown.
- Securely pen-up pets, or take them with you.
- Be cautious about saying anything to buyers or their sales professional that could weaken your negotiating position, especially regarding price or your urgency to sell.
- Collect the business cards of the real estate professionals who preview and show your home, and pass them on to the agent.
- Let an agent know of any changes in the property’s condition that would need to be disclosed to potential buyers.
- Be available to review with the agent the list price and condition of your property if it has not sold in a reasonable period of time.
Dave and Reiné Broome
Realtors®|Brokers
Certified Residential Specialists | CRS
Graduate Realtors® Institute | GRI
Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource Certification | SFR
Prudential Montana Real Estate
2001 Stadium Drive Suite #A. Bozeman, MT 59715
Reiné 406.580.2021 | Dave 406.580.4290
Email: TheBroomes@prumt.com
Website: http://www.BozemanHomesOnline.com
We Always Appreciate Referrals!
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