Tips for Buying / Selling
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Tips for Selling your Home
What is Breakthrough Marketing?
Our marketing does more than differentiate your home in a very cluttered marketplace; it gives your home a true advantage. For every listing, we research and recommend how to position your home so that it sells quickly and for optimum value. Our agents work with you to enhance the home’s appeal. Then we employ professional photography, inviting copy, compelling advertising, and a promotion plan for each home. Finally, we utilize multi-channel marketing to create optimum awareness. Throughout the process, we keep clients updated on market conditions and provide decision options until the home sells. It’s a successful process that has helped clients for over three decades.
A Global Relocation Network
We are a member of the largest and most respected relocation affiliation in the world, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World. With 5,000+ members and annual sales over $400 billion, our affiliates sell more homes annually than any other residential real estate
organization.
As a member of Luxury Portfolio, Jose Ponce is among the very best independent real estate brokerages from all over the world. Featured properties are among the most exclusive in the world and include fine homes ranging from estates to exotic island retreats and country manors. Janet McAfee is selected as the Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate, an international broker network of the finest luxury brokerages in the world. Membership consists of 120,000 agents in 65 countries. Members are proven leaders in the marketing of distinctive properties and are committed to high performance, quality service, and professional representation.
Tips for Buying your Home
When you begin to search for property for sale in St. Louis, you’ll find no better partners than Ponce Realty Group
real estate agents. Each real estate agent is dedicated to helping you find the home of your dreams as quickly and efficiently as possible, whether you’re buying a new home in a different neighborhood or relocating your family to St. Louis.
To make the home buying process even easier, Victor Ponce has provided a variety of home buying tips created by REALTOR® Magazine Online. Each one covers important information regarding choosing the right real estate agent, finding the best property for your family and protecting your finances along the way.
Our step-by-step approach to service
1
Listening
Our first step in assisting you is to listen. Our agents want to hear from you the characteristics of a home and neighborhood that you desire. The price range and the desired proximity to home, schools, places of worship are important factors. Special needs or community support should be considered early.
2
Qualification
Your Jose Ponce agent can assist you with recommending reputable mortgage bankers and lenders. We are strictly independent; we do not have a business interest or ownership stake in any mortgage brokerage or any related service providers. A pre-approval letter will make your home buying process smoother and your contract more appealing to the seller.
3
Buyer Agency
Your agent will disclose the ways in which you are entitled to work with your Realtor. Jose Ponce offers buyer agency for the highest level of fiduciary care.
4
Home Finding Visit
Your agent will meet you at a predetermined location to escort you to properties which meet your desired criteria. As you visit properties, make notes about your likes and dislikes. Communicate those to your agent, as well as any changes or adjustments you make.
5
Early Bird Information
If you do not find a home on your first visit, your buyer’s agent can register you to receive MLS properties directly to your email immediately after they are entered as a listing. Additionally, your Jose Ponce agent will inform you about any “coming attractions” that have not been made public. We meet every Tuesday morning to discuss our listings as well as report upcoming listings so that our clients are the first to be informed.
6
The Purchase Process, CMA
When you find your dream home, your buyer’s agent will prepare a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) to reveal the sale prices of comparable homes. This will form the basis of your offer and help your agent negotiate for the lowest price possible.
7
Contract
Your Jose Ponce agent is licensed to complete a Residential Sale Contract, prepared by the St. Louis Association of Realtors and Missouri Bar Association. Price, earnest money, finance and appraisal terms, inspection contingencies, title investigation, and closing date are all important considerations. Your buyer’s agent will negotiate on your behalf to arrive at the most favorable terms for you.
8
Inspections
Your agent will assist in scheduling inspectors of your choice. Environmental, termite, building/structural inspections are recommended. Your agent will accompany you on the inspection and negotiate items that you want repaired or need replacement prior to closing.
9
Loan Commitment, Insurance, Title and Survey
You will complete your mortgage application process and contact your home owner’s insurance provider. Your lender should accompany you and your agent to closing. Jose Ponce closing manager will order a title examination and survey of your choice.
Communities
- St. Louis City
- Benton Park
- Compton Heights
- Central West End
- Downtown St. Louis
- Soulard
- University City
- St. Louis Hills
- Tower Grove / Shaw
- St. Louis County
- Brentwood
- Chesterfield
- Clayton
- Creve Coeur
- Des Peres
- Frontenac
- Kirkwood
- Ladue
- Richmond
- Heights
- Wildwood
- St.Peters
- St. Charles
- Cottenville
- Lake St.Louis
- Wentzville
- Troy
- Warrenton
- Webster Groves
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Address:
16497 Clayton Rd. Suite 104 Ballwin, MO 6301
Phone Number:
(636) 444-9515
Other Phone Number:
(314) 601-2866
E-mail:
victor@prgremax.com