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Buying a Home? Don’t Sign Anything!
As you may remember from my last post “Before You Sign That Realtor Agreement, Here Are 5 Things You Should Consider!“, I touched on signing an “Exclusive Right to Buy” contract and why these are terrible. I will share with you my story as well as how and why you should avoid this real estate…
Don’t Fall for The Over Pricing Trick!
There was a great article written in 2015 by Trulia titled “8 Reasons NOT to Test the Market with Your Asking Price“. It is a great article and I highly recommend reading it if you are thinking of selling your home. When listing your home, pricing it correctly is crucial to a fast and fair…
Is Now Still a Good Time To Buy a Home in Denver?
There’s been a lot of stories in the local and national media over the last couple years about Denver’s real estate market. If you were to believe everything you read, you’d think it was a horrible time to buy, every property available goes for well over asking price, and that you probably won’t be able to…
Three Dirty Secrets of Real Estate
In the world of Real Estate, there are landmines you need to be aware of just like any other industry. Today I am going to touch on some of the dirty little secrets that still exist in today’s Real Estate market that you should be aware of (at least here in Denver). Hopefully, this advice…
The Golden Rule of Real Estate: Real Estate Fees for Selling
Real Estate can be an incredibly rewarding and fun career. It’s one of the few industries where you can truly help someone make one of the most important buying decisions of their life. We here at BlueMatch have had the pleasure to work with some amazing agents throughout the Colorado market. You can ask any…
For Sale By Owner Checklist
Selling your home for sale by owner can be a great way to save money on the transaction of your home. The Denver Real Estate market is definitely a sellers market which is driving more and more For Sale By Owners. Here are 10 steps that can help you sell your Denver home as a for…
Zero Commission Real Estate in Denver
One question we get asked a lot at BlueMatch is how are we able to make money by selling homes for zero commission in Denver. Our response is always the same. Are our services too cheap or has the Real Estate industry commissions not caught up with the new millennium? Many years ago, believe it or…
The True Cost of Flat Fee Realty Commission
At BlueMatch, we often write about Real Estate practices that exist in the market which led us to starting our own company. Practices that leave people frustrated and angry at the end of a Real Estate transaction. Today is no different. Like everything we do here at BlueMatch, we will use data and leave anecdotes…
BlueMatch is Now Serving Real Estate in Colorado Springs, CO
BlueMatch is excited to announce that we are bringing our Home Selling Made Simple model to real estate in Colorado Springs, CO and surrounding areas. As of November 15th, 2016, you can now use BlueMatch to sell your home commission free in the Colorado Springs area. We are also excited to add that Colorado Springs will fall into our new pricing…
BlueMatch Is Now Serving Ft. Collins! Find New Homes in Colorado
BlueMatch is excited to announce that we are bringing our Home Selling Made Simple model to Ft Collins and the surrounding area. As of November 15th, 2016, you can now use BlueMatch to sell your home commission free in Northern Colorado or find new homes in Colorado. We are also excited to add that Ft Collins will fall into our…
BlueMatch is Now Serving Minnesota Real Estate
BlueMatch is excited to announce that we are bringing our Home Selling Made Simple model to the Twin Cities and surrounding area of Minnesota real estate. As of January 13th, 2017, you can now use BlueMatch to sell your home commission free in the Twin City area. The Blue Match services include everything you would get with a traditional agent such as…
The Denver Real Estate Market by the Numbers
Is it the Right Time to Sell in the Denver Real Estate Market? (prices are rising!) If you ask 10 people in Denver, you’ll get 10 opinions on selling your home. But hard data on the Denver real estate market makes a strong case for selling your home. The 3 trends encouraging Denver homeowners to…
5 Tips on Selling Your Home For Sale by Owner Denver
Selling your home For Sale by Owner can be a great way to save money. In Denver for example, the median home price is approaching almost $400,000. This means if you paid a traditional real estate agent commission it could cost you a whopping $24,000. In Seattle and New York, this number is over double!…
3 Things to Expect When You For Sale by Owner MLS
For many people looking to save money on the sale of their home, going for sale by owner MLS is a great option. With the median home prices in areas like Denver approaching $400K and Seattle at $675K, listing commissions are an astounding $12,000 and $20,250 respectively. That’s a pretty large chunk of change. Although…
Trends in Real Estate in Colorado Springs, CO
When it comes to Colorado Real Estate, Denver’s hot market is usually the topic of discussion. Recently however, we have discovered some interesting things happening in real estate in Colorado Springs, CO. If you are thinking about selling your Colorado Springs home, now might be a great time. Here are a three trends that show why…
Minneapolis, Minnesota Real Estate Market by the Numbers
The Minneapolis St Paul area has a strong stable Real Estate market. It is well balanced and traditionally hasn’t tipped hard and heavy towards buyers or sellers. We are however starting to see great trends towards a strong seller market Minnesota real estate. If you are thinking of selling your home in the twin cities, now…
7 Ways To Sell Your Own Home Fast
While there’s often no reason to do anything drastic (or drastically expensive), minor improvements can make a huge difference in the price and speed at which you sell your own home It’s ideal if you make any renovations before your home is listed for sale; even more important, please let our team know the upgrades you’ve made…
4 Questions to Ask a Realtor Before You Sell Your Own House
At BlueMatch, we often are asked many questions before someone signs up with us to list their home. Some questions are geared towards making the client feel more comfortable. These questions include things like do you live or know my area? or Have you sold a home in my neighborhood? These are the warm and fuzzy…
Selling a Home is a Logical Transaction, Not an Emotional One.
BlueMatch lists roughly 68 times more homes than the average volume of a traditional agent on a monthly basis. In doing so, we collect a TON of data. We don’t always execute perfectly and like all humans, we make mistakes. One of the things we believe we do very well though is guide people through a…
Why BlueMatch isn’t Like Other ‘For Sale by Owner’ Sites
There are hundreds of for sale by owner sites on the web today, making it easier than ever to list your home, share it and get it the visibility and reach it deserves—all on your own. But at their core, they’re still just websites—static venues on which to post pictures, list a few details and maybe book…
Enter the Modern Age with Zero Commission Real Estate
Today’s market is red-hot. Houses are selling at record prices, in a fraction of the time it took just a few years ago. It’s a market in which, for all intents and purposes, properties basically sell themselves. So it begs the question: What role does the realtor play in modern home sales? More importantly, if…
Easily Sell Your Own Home with BlueMatch
Choosing to sell your own home obviously has serious benefits. For one, you don’t have to fork over a huge chunk of your sales proceeds for commissions, fees and other costs for a realtor—and considering some realtors charge as much as 6%, that can amount to thousands and thousands of dollars saved by the end…
How do I Sell My House Without an Agent to Advise Me?
It’s a question many have: “How do I sell my house without having to overspend on a real estate agent?” The answer is – don’t hire one, but don’t sell it on your own, either. How does this work? Many people don’t realize there is a third option. You can sell your own home with all…
Dispelling the Myths About Commission Free Real Estate
Is commission-free real estate selling really a benefit? Is it even possible? It’s not uncommon for those listing their homes to face a decision about whether or not to sell their home on their own or hire a real estate agent. As BlueMatch clients already know, there is a third option. You can handle the process on…
5 Things You Need to Know About Flat Fee Home Selling
Wouldn’t it be nice to pay a flat fee to sell your home and not have to worry about shelling out thousands of dollars or trying to juggle the process yourself? You can do just that with BlueMatch. As a flat fee home selling option, it is one of the best opportunities you have to keep costs…
For Sale By Owner Denver: Avoid Contracts, Commission, and Stress!
You’ve found a for sale by owner Denver website. All you can think about is how beneficial this can be to you. You want to sell your home, but you don’t want to use a real estate agent directly. You want to keep costs down and try to make money from your home. It’s a rough market,…
Trust One of the Best Flat Fee MLS Listing Services
Get Discovered One of the biggest challenges For Sale By Owner home sellers face is getting their home listed in the MLS. This is the lifeblood of the real estate world and makes your home discoverable by agents and real estate services all over the web. But traditional real estate agents don’t offer a flat…
Georgia Homes For Sale: List Your House without a Realtor
The last thing that anyone wants to do in a hot real estate market is to leave money on the table. Fortunately, in that state of Georgia homes for sale by owner have a secret weapon in the quest to get the most from one of their most important investments: BlueMatch. Traditionally, the home selling process…
How to Sell Your House Yourself – 5 Steps
If you are thinking of selling your house yourself, you are not alone. Roughly 10% of the homes listed and sold in America are For Sale by Owner. Selling your house yourself can save you money considering you can avoid hefty Realtor commissions. In this article, we will review 5 steps on how you can sell your…
Buyer Agent Commission and Buyer Agent Fee as a FSBO
Offering a Buyer Agent Commission or Buyer Agent Fee One of the key decisions you can make in a for sale by owner situation is how to handle paying a buyer agent fee or commission. Most people probably don’t realize that you have a say in how much commission an agent can earn from the…
Negotiating Real Estate Appraisal Gaps
Negotiating real estate appraisal gaps isn’t the first thing that most people think about when selling their home, but knowing about appraisal gaps and strategies to work through them can save you a lot of money when selling your home. What is a Real Estate Appraisal Gap? When you sell your home, you set an…
For Sale By Owner Safety & Real Estate Showing Services
When selling your home, especially if you’re doing a for sale by owner (FSBO), how often do you think about the safety of your home, your property, and your family? It can be a bit daunting to have strangers walking through your house when you’re not there. This is where a real estate showing service…
Negotiating the Real Estate Agent Relationship
Because most people don’t spend their lives buying and selling real estate, they don’t put much thought into the idea of negotiating the real estate agent relationship. You choose an agent because they’re supposed to be a professional that you can trust. The overwhelming majority of real estate agents are good people who want to…
Pricing Your Home Correctly: Asking Price vs. Market Value
When it comes to selling your home, one of the most important factors for getting the maximum value is pricing your home correctly. Determining the right asking price is both an art and a science. We’ll explain why. Pricing Your Home Correctly One of the first things to remember when selling your home is that…
Flat Fee MLS
The Multi-Listing Service, also known as the MLS is the lifeblood of the real estate world. Actually, there is not one MLS, even though it seems that way when real estate people talk about it. There many different multi-listing services, but whether you’re talking about one or several, their purpose remains important. Using a flat fee MLS…
Real Estate Agent Commissions: Aligning Agent Interests with Yours
Freakanomic Real Estate The mastermind behind Freakanomics is Steven Levitt, who teaches economics at the University of Chicago. Levitt using intensive data analysis to answer all kinds of interesting questions. As a big fan of Levitt and Freakanomics, I was really interested when he looked into real estate agent commissions. Levitt and the Freakanomics team examined…
Denver Area Housing Market By The Numbers: Holding Steady in 2018
The housing market around Denver has been hot for years now. The good news for sellers is that it doesn’t look like things are going to cool off in the near future. Even when factoring seasonal trends into the equation, the Denver market remains very stable. Let’s take a look at some of the numbers…
Twin Cities Real Estate by the Numbers: January 2018
There are some interesting things going on right now in the Minneapolis-St Paul housing market. Homeowners in the Twin Cities area are seeing homes sit on the market for a bit longer right now, but they’re still getting good money for their homes. Lots of Inventory The fewer months of inventory a market has, the…
Fort Collins Real Estate by the Numbers – January 2018
Home to the main campus of Colorado State University, Fort Collins continues to be a strong real estate market. The most recent data for Fort Collins goes through December 2017. Let’s take a look at how the year ended up and how those numbers compare to the yearly averages. Sale Prices Trending Up This chart…
Seattle Real Estate by the Numbers – February 2018 February 5, 2018
There’s nothing like fresh data at the beginning of the month. The numbers for the Seattle real estate market through January of this year show us what’s going on with seasonal trends in the area. The data also shows the continuation of positive trends year-over-year sales performance. Seasonal Factors in Seattle Real Estate It’s not…
Colorado Springs Real Estate by the Numbers – February 2018
Much like the Denver and Fort Collins areas, Colorado Springs and its neighboring towns are faring well in the current real estate climate in Colorado. Even with the typical seasonal shifts things are staying pretty consistent overall in the Springs. Cumulative Days on the Market We’ll address the elephant in the room first. Yes, the…
Denver Real Estate by the Numbers – February 2018
It seems as though winter hasn’t had a significant effect on the Denver real estate market outside of normal seasonal shifts. Property continues to move quickly in and around Denver and, on average, fetches a pretty good price. As always, looking at the housing trends over the past few months may help you decide when…
Twin Cities Real Estate by the Numbers – February 2018
We’ve talked a lot about seasonal patterns in these pages recently and the latest numbers from the Twin Cities real estate market really hammers some of these ideas home. This month our look into the Minneapolis/St. Paul area focuses on two things: inventory and prices. Typically, we just look at the past twelve months to…
Can a For Sale by Owner List on the MLS? What are Your Options?
For anyone selling their property as a for sale by owner, getting maximum exposure for your home listing is key. The biggest benefit to selling as an owner is that you avoid paying hefty listing agent commissions. Selling as an owner can easily save you upwards of 3% of the sale price of your home. On a…
4 Ways to Sell Your House Without a Realtor
4 Ways You Can Sell Your House Without a Realtor Thinking of ways to sell your house without a Realtor? You’re not alone. Over the last 10 years, the real estate market has changed considerably. With the advent of sites like Zillow and Realtor, consumer access to inventory has changed how people access listings. The shift…
How to Get a Free MLS Listing
The Free MLS Listing People often reach out to us at BlueMatch asking for a free MLS listing. Technically speaking, almost every agency (including BlueMatch) will put you on the MLS for free. So if you are looking for a free MLS listing, then most agents provide that. What they charge you once your home goes under…
The Commission Free and Flat Fee Real Estate Service is Now in Orlando, Miami, Tampa Bay…
BlueMatch is excited to announce that we will be launching both our commission free and flat free real estate platform in Florida. Starting on December 20th, Orlando, Miami, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, St Petersburg, West Palm Beach, and Ft Lauderdale will be able to access the BlueMatch platform. This means homeowners in Florida will now be able to list…
How to Get the Most Money For Your House
How to Get the Most Money For Your House. Many people that we work with and speak to on a daily basis initially reach out to BlueMatch because they are looking to save money. Saving money is a great strategy in selling a home but is it really the best way to get the most money for…
How to Choose the Right Flat Fee MLS Service
Buying or selling a home is a huge decision. Not only is this typically a major time investment, but there are financial investments to be made as well. That’s why more and more people are using flat fee MLS services as a way to save money. The MLS is the central database for real estate…
3 Costly Mistakes You Should Avoid When Selling For Sale by Owner
Avoid These 3 Costly Mistakes When Selling Your House For Sale by Owner. Selling your home for sale by owner is appealing to anyone looking to save money in the home selling process. But sometimes trying to save money can actually end up costing you more than you think. This article will cover 3 mistakes…
You Can Save Money with a Discount Real Estate Broker
Some people may be wary when they see a phrase like discount real estate broker, but they don’t need to be. No Need to Worry In large part, wariness about a discount real estate broker is the same about any product or service labeled as ‘discount.’ People naturally associate cost with quality, so the more…
4 Reasons to Work with a Flat Fee Real Estate Agent in Colorado Springs
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These home upgrades can really pay off in the long run
Even if you’re not planning on selling your home any time soon, you should still be thinking about its value and making plans to improve the property. After all, home upgrades aren’t just about a future return-on-investment (ROI): they also allow you to enjoy your home more in the present. In this article, we’ll review…
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