Hiring a real estate agent in PEI

How do you know which realtor to choose to sell your PEI home? Primarily you can know the realtor that will best sell your home by checking the following.

Photographs:
Check the agent's website, the MLS site for his/her listings and look at the quality of their photography. Good photos sell homes! Ensure that each of your prospective realtors listings have multiple pictures. One shot simply doesn't cut it today. There should be 2 front shots of the home, with no vehicles in the shot, and cropped to show only the home and a bit of the garden. One of these pictures should be front on, the other angled from the side. The pictures should be bright, sharp and as shadow free as possible. You may add an additional picture of the yard. These pictures should show the home with the lawn, cut bushes trimmed, children's toys cleaned up etc., but don't blame the realtor if this is not so as some vendor's wont clean up and it isn't the realtors job to do it for them. Of course you will make sure that these things are done before your home is photographed!

You will also want to see evidence of good interior photos on your agent's website. Once again you want sharp, well lit pictures. Make sure that you clean up before your realtor takes the pictures of your home.

You may also check to see if your prospective realtor will offer to create a virtual tour of your home. This is especially true if your home is in the higher-price bracket. A virtual tour is a collection of pictures taken in a panorama of a room in your home and then joined together and shown on a website so that the viewer can control looking around the room in a circle. Some virtual tours offer up and down movement and zoom allowing the viewer to see details and to look yup at the ceiling and down at the floor thus giving the viewer a feeling of being there. Most PEI real estate and realtors are not at this time offering Virtual Tours - but ask anyway, as this may encourage the best to start.

Signage:

Ensure that your agent places at least one sigh on your property and that the sign includes the office phone number, cell number and website. As we get a lot of wind on PEI real estate especially in winter make sure that the sign remains clear of snow and standing. If you can't do this yourself let the realtor know if your sign needs attention. If you are on a corner lot have a sign on each street and should your house be on a side street make sure that your realtor puts a direction (arrow) sign on the main street pointing down to your home.

Marketing

Make sure that your realtor will advertise your home on cable TV, real estate guides, the local paper, and online. Ideally the agent should have their own website as well as advertising your home on the office website and office colleague's websites.

Ask if your prospective realtor has an email mailing list and if your home will be included in a mass-email campaign. Additionally ensure that your property will be on an agents caravan so that other agents become familiar with your home. These other agents will most likely bring you a buyer. Finally ensure that your gent will run open houses on the weekend so that interested parties may see your home on a casual basis as this can also lead to an offer.

It is important to have a realtor that can answer the questions "why list with you?" And "what will you do to sell my home?" with specific promises rather than vague platitudes.

Ron Wesley is a PEI real estate consultant and he is vast experience in PEI real estate field. If you want to know more about real estate visit here http://www.royallepagepei.com/