Are you considering hiring an agent for the job of helping buy or sell your home? Or maybe you’re in a situation where you’re having second thoughts about your chosen agent’s ability to get the job done? No problem. Cut through the hype and get the facts.
How Our Team Compares
We work hard to bring you top results in every aspect of your real estate transaction, and it shows. Here’s how our service model compares with that of the average Silicon Valley real estate agent.
| StynesGroup Real Estate Solutions |
The Average Silicon Valley Agent |
| Availability | Availability |
| Our professional staff work strictly for StynesGroup and they are available to assist you seven days a week. All team members are familiar with your property and transaction and can answer your questions. We work hard to provide the highest level of service possible. | After a typical agent lists your property, he or she is often difficult to track down. You have to initiate contact, and often get voicemail and maybe a return call the next day. |
| Benefit to you: You get VIP treatment from a professional and friendly team. | |
| Service After Showings | Service After Showings |
| Our team coordinator, requests feedback on each of your showings and makes it available to you via a password protected section of our website. | There are usually no calls or follow-up for feedback after your property is shown. |
| Benefit to you: You’re kept up to date on the marketing of your home, and not in the dark. | |
| Staff | Staff |
| StynesGroup has chosen a select group of professionals, each working within their area of expertise, and exclusively for you and him. They watch out for your interests and want to sell your home quickly, for the highest price and the least amount of hassle. | One agent tries to manage everything about the sale of your home, or enlists the help of a very limited, inexperienced staff. |
| Benefit to you: With StynesGroup you have multiple professionals working for the price of one. Your home achieves maximum exposure and generates more calls that are answered by professional sales people whose goal is the same as yours – GETTING YOUR HOME SOLD! | |
| Advertising & Marketing | Advertising & Marketing |
| StynesGroup advertises your home extensively to ensure maximum exposure. Our marketing tools include exclusive direct mail advertising to your neighborhood, San Francisco Chronicle, Mercury News and Craigslist classifieds, extensive web advertising with Keller Williams,Yahoo!, Google, MSN and other major search engines, visual (virtual) tours with panoramic walk throughs of your home, high quality full-color brochures highlighting the major selling features of your home, Realtor.com, StynesGroup.com and every other broker website throughout the Silicon Valley that has the ability to search the MLS. We also use email advertisements to buyer prospects and agents. | Though there are agents who will market your home properly and to its fullest, most just dump the listing in the MLS and maybe call one or two prospective buyers. Typical agents also show little follow through with leads, limited Internet exposure, and provide few virtual tours. |
| Technology | Technology |
| StynesGroup has an independent office with its own computer network systems, voicemail/phone system, customer contact, and follow up management software. We invest in modern technologies to achieve top results for you. | A typical Silicon Valley, working alone, is often too busy to invest in new technology, and usually has to play catch-up. As a result, they miss out on the latest networking techniques and marketing methods. |
| Benefit to you: Your home gains maximum exposure to local, regional, national and international buyers. | |
| Pricing Your Home | Pricing Your Home |
| StynesGroup will help you price your home correctly from the beginning after carefully inspecting your home and researching local market conditions. Experience has taught us that effective pricing is the cornerstone of good real estate marketing, and will produce a quicker sale at maximum price. | Most agents are starved for listings and will offer to list your home much higher than market value, in order to attract your business. The tactic generally results in few showings, long market time, and ultimately a much lower sales price. |
| Benefit to you: You receive the highest price for your home in the shortest time with the least amount of hassle. | |
| Sales Ratios | Sales Ratios |
| StynesGroup closes more than 96 percent of the homes he lists, and sells them for more than 98 percent of their listing price. Their homes sell, on an average of 39 days. Because of StynesGroup’s commission flexibility the team is able to sell more homes in less time for higher prices. | The average agent sells a listing 65 per cent of the time. Of the contracts he or she writes, 83 per cent go through to closing. The average agent’s list price to sales price ratio is 92.5 per cent, with an average time on market of 79 days. |
| Benefit to you: Sit back, relax and enjoy the no hassle approach to selling your home quickly for the most amount of net profit to you. | |
| Team Service Model | Single Realtor Service Model |
| StynesGroup has specialists working on every aspect of the home buying and selling process. From advertising and marketing to closing and post-closing details, each member is a master of their specialty. | The saying “jack of all trades, master of none” sums it up. Single Realtors carry sole responsibility for every facet of the transaction, and are often so overwhelmed that they forget the details necessary to make a difference in the sale of your home. |
| Benefit to you: You have many people working to make sure your home is sold for the highest price possible in the least amount of time with the least amount of stress to you | |
