Selling a property involves handing a significant financial outcome to someone else to manage. Most of what that person does during the campaign happens in conversations and follow-up calls the seller never participates in, at times of day the seller is not watching, in exchanges with buyers the sel

The common assumption is that agent quality is a function of years in the industry or the brand on the business card. Neither holds up.The gap between a good real estate agent and an average one shows up in behaviour. Specifically, in what each agent does at the stages of a sale where most s

Most buyers make their first decision about a property in under five seconds. Not whether to buy it - whether to click on it. That five-second window is where the campaign either does its job or fails. Most sellers underestimate how much of the final sale price is determined before any buyer sets fo

There is a version of selling a property that most vendors never access. Not because it requires unusual skill or access to information others do not have - but because it requires a deliberate approach to the process that most people do not take the time to develop. The vendors who do develop it te

Consider what actually happens during a typical appraisal process. A vendor sees three agents. Two quote within a similar range, supported by recent comparable sales. The third quotes significantly higher. The vendor, understandably, leans toward the higher figure. They sign. The campaign launches.