Real Estate Companies-PS
What is everyone’s take on using the same real estate company to sell/list your house that originally sold your house to you as a buyer?? Not sure if there is an upswing to this as I am assuming they would have the house info stored in their files. Also they have pics of the house…
What is everyone’s take on using the same real estate company to sell/list your house that originally sold your house to you as a buyer??
Not sure if there is an upswing to this as I am assuming they would have the house info stored in their files. Also they have pics of the house before I would have done my renovations….
Also – what companies are good other than Corcoran at getting houses sold in PS?
Warren Lewis, A&H,Brooklyn Properties,Brown&Harris?
Any thoughts would be appreciated?
I wouldn’t agree that smaller neighborhood brokers know the market better…we had a horrible experience with Brooklyn Properties trying to sell in a softening market 2 years ago. Our apartment generated lots of traffic but almost no offers, and we had overpriced it, plain and simple, but BP had no idea what was going on and why it didn’t sell. It took a different broker to clue us in. In addition, 2 different brokers at BP completely bungled potential sales – one early on, and one during the co-op approval stage (buyer’s income was under-reported by the BP broker.) We went with BP because we liked a particular broker there who worked with us when we bought. However, although she “had” the listing, when someone walks into their office from the street they are assigned a broker, and that person handles the potential sale from offer onward. Hence the incompetency. It was horrendous for us, we owned 2 apartments for 5 months. Went with Corcoran after our deal fell through and accepted anoffer within 2 weeks. I think due to their volume, and the fact that they bring Manhattan customers, the bigger companies are a safer bet than the small local companies.
We used Erin and Ari of housebywe to sell our townhouse in Windsor Terrace. Cant say enough about them. Very savvy. They staged beautifully and even did some cosmetic reno to get the place in selling shape. Ive seen other recs for them on the site as well.
Not sure that loyalty to a corporation is worth anything. Loyalty to a person still is tho.
To me it would be worth returning the business to the same individual broker if you liked and trusted her/him in the first place, not so much so for the brokerage corp.
Having the info stored in the files should not be much of a benefit I shouldn’t think, might get the listing up on the Times a day earlier but don’t think that should count for much.
As for which one to use… I think the big ones are good for bringing in buyers from Manhattan and from out of town. But the smaller ones (BP + WL) are nice because they seem to know the market better and give better service.
Also, at the time (5.5 years ago). Corcoran flat out said that they never discount the commission (tho of course they do sometimes) and others were willing to at least discuss it.
Never liked the vibe at A+H but that’s just me.
All this is based on my personal experience of buying and selling a coop and buying a brownstone in PS, no more than that.