What is your agent doing to market your home?

When listing your home, the options seem endless and can be overwhelming! Aside from the many various real estate brokerages, there are discount brokers and iBuyers, as well as the option to list the home yourself. We all love the idea of saving money, but in many cases the seller’s greatest expense may be the money they don’t make on the sale of their home. Foregoing marketing and listing your home with little to no commission often means that the house sells for the minimum amount of what real estate agents refer to as “range of value.” What steps need to be taken to sell your home at its maximum value?

It’s important to remember that one of the most valuable services you receive is how your home is marketed. All homes have a range of value, and marketing can make all the difference when it comes to getting the most for your home. When you hire a real estate professional backed by a full-service brokerage, what marketing services should be included?

Did you know?
When most people think of Real Estate services, what typically comes to mind is the process of buying and selling a home. But Real Estate encompasses a number of other services, including property management, investment services, residential, commercial, leasing, and apartment locating. Having these services available within the brokerage you choose can be a great asset down the road. We do all of these at LEAGUE! Come see for yourself what we are doing to better serve the needs of our clients.

At a very basic level, an agent should list your home on the North Texas Real Estate Information System’s multiple listing service (MLS). Syndication should be utilized to enter the listing onto many popular searching sites. Other options may include holding open houses, email blasts, or putting a picture of your home in the local magazine. While these strategies are “okay,” they may not be enough in today’s competitive market. As a consumer, it’s important to remember that REALTOR®’s are independent contractors, and in many traditional brokerages the agent is personally responsible for the majority of the marketing costs. These upfront costs can be expensive and come at a personal financial risk to the agent.

At LEAGUE, we believe there is so much more that can be done to get you the very best value for your home. When a great agent is backed by a supportive, hands-on, local brokerage with a strategic marketing strategy, you get the maximum exposure needed to attract more buyers (and more contracts)! Our marketing team takes the management and risk out of it for our agents, working with them to customize a creative marketing strategy and covering upfront marketing costs. This allows the agent to focus on other important details such as building local relationships, property walk-throughs & home staging, pricing strategies, contract negotiations, and attending to the various needs of their clients.

In a hyper-local market like Fort Worth, we’ve seen great success selling homes by getting maximum reach and views to the right local audience. More targeted reach = more opportunities. Since LEAGUE began, we’ve built an organic audience that exceeds many of our larger competitors. This is in large part due to having one LEAGUE partner who is fully devoted to overseeing the company’s marketing initiatives.
When a listing is posted on our social networks, it’s seen by a large number of people, increasing the chances of finding the right buyer and best value for your home. Our strategy consists of both online and offline marketing, including:

• broad reach (even global) platforms such as MLS, Zillow, and other third party websites targeted reach to boost local awareness (ie. email campaigns to other agents who have potential buyers in the area, etc)
• use of professional photography and video
• social media campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Google for Business. These provide valuable analytics that help our agents know how to best market the specific property
• “featured” blog posts on our website
• “Just listed” postcards
• well-designed real estate signage to reach the community

Every home is unique in it’s own way. That’s why we believe in creative, story-driven media that’s fun, cinematic, exciting, and beautiful. It inspires prospective buyers to see more than just a house, but rather to picture the home as their own! This is at the heart of what we do and how we serve our clients. We believe in building relationships with people. We believe in helping our sellers’ create spaces that will appeal to the right buyer. We believe in looking at each listing creatively and uniquely, having the ability to customize a home’s marketing campaign specifically designed to reach buyers and help sellers reach the maximum value!

We’ve worked hard to create something different by using new, innovative ways to market homes for our clients. We strive to maximize every aspect of the home sale experience, including the return on your investment. We want our agents to feel supported, which is why we’ve built a team with that goal in mind! We’re here for them, we’re here for you, and we’re #ReadyToServe.

Additional resources: Why Selling Your House on Your Own in 2021 Is a Mistake