Buyers
For most buyers purchasing real estate, it will be the most complex financial transaction they will make in their life. An Equity Harbour agent understands it is important that you feel safe and comfortable to move forward through the different stages of the transaction, offer to purchase, negotiations, inspections, financing, closings, and finally taking possession.
Let us prioritize your wish list. Finding the balance between wants and needs, how much to spend, and where do you want to live will be the test.
- Consider your lifestyle and what is important to you and the features that you want your new home to have. Create a list of options that will be important to you and your family to be your guide.
- Look into your future for needs that might be coming down the road, having children, school district, maybe you choose a home that can offer living arrangements for aging parents that might need to move in. Also, consider how long you anticipate living there. The national average is for homeownership is 13 years.
- Location, Location, Location is the basis for all real estate investments. Look carefully at its location, surrounding properties, and how they are cared for.
- Look at zoning, school districts, wetlands, and traffic studies. Then once you are satisfied with the location you can look at home features to see if they are going to work for you and your family.
- The distance to your work, convenience and accessibility, fire and police protection, medical facilities, schools and daycare, parking, trash, and garbage collection, and recreational facilities.
- Have you considered having a home built instead of buying an existing home?
In today’s market it is easy to get a ton of information, but what do you compare it to, or what does the information really mean, and is it accurate? Equity Harbour can help you can see through all of the information and be a resource for you.
Your mortgage company will in most cases approve a range from high to low, consider your monthly budget to include principal and interest, taxes, insurance, association Fees if part of an HOA and PMI insurance if required. A must is to have preferred lender pre-approve you before we start viewing homes, we want your experience to be seamless and stress-free.
Sellers
Selling your home is an emotional experience as it is an extension of your life, once you make the decision to sell an Equity Harbour Realtor will help guide you through all the steps so you can make informed decisions.
Fiduciary Interest: Is having an Equity Harbour agent act on your behalf to protect your interest as you go through the entire process. We also, know what improvements should be made to help obtain the best price possible, market the property to sell it as fast as possible for top dollar, and help you negotiate all offers.
Transparent communication is of utmost importance as there are many individuals involved in the transaction, from mortgage processors, underwriting, inspectors, appraisers, title companies, and attorneys. We want you to have a smooth and stress-free experience.
Let’s get started and create a plan of action.
We find that a blend of multiple marketing efforts exposes homes to the most potential buyers, including local MLS to market to other local brokers, national real estate sites to attract buyers directly from Realtor.com, MichRIC.com, Zillow, and Trulia along with having a social marketing expert on board to expand exposure to more potential buyers on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
Equity Harbour agents are prepared to sit down with you and paint the broad picture of your marketplace, actual sale prices, compare different home sales, and ideas to create more value as far as repairs and or staging the home for sale. Our goal is to stand out from your competition to make your home more appealing to home buyers and exceed their expectations and yours.
Helping Landowners & Investment partners
Equity Harbour specializes in developing real estate assets. We offer hand-selected investment opportunities that we have put through our due diligence process.
We search out unique opportunities that will serve a particular need in the marketplace for years to come. And we take these opportunities through the development process to identify the properties highest and best use while we introduce the opportunity to developers/builders. Our processes and seasoned team maximize value while providing needed inventory to developers & builders.
We leverage an extended team of experts and consultants based on decades of experience as a real estate investor/developer.
Our extended team brings time tested reliability, a history of proven success results that take raw land, and turn it into income-producing assets, while minimizing normal real estate risks.
