The seller services we provide include all of the traditional agent services, including property visits, meetings, market analysis, an MLS listing, showings, negotiations, contract review, ongoing guidance, and closing coordination. This service is $3,500 and we only get paid if your house sells.
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Selling Your Home with Flat Fee Real Estate
Here’s a more detailed list of the services we provide to sellers.
- Meet you at your home to discuss the features of your home
- Conduct a market analysis to help in pricing your home
- Free professional photographer to take photos of your home
- List your property in the MLS so that it is published on all of the high profile real estate websites, including Zillow
- Boosted Facebook post of your listing
- Provide an electronic lockbox and lawn sign
- Dedicated scheduler to contact you for appointments and showings
- Post showing feedback and consultation
- Provide ongoing advice regarding market conditions and pricing
- Assist in negotiating offers with buyers and their agents
- Draft and review agreements, contracts, and amendments to contracts
- Coordinate inspection, appraisal, and walkthrough
- Coordinate and attend the closing
Why Sell with Flat Fee Real Estate
Unlike other firms, we charge a flat fee rather than a percentage of the sales price. We charge a flat fee of $3,500 regardless of the sales price.
As of July 15, 2024, the Vermont based MLS changed its rules. Home listings in Vermont can no longer offer buyer agents compensation from the seller or listing agent in the listing. The new rules further require that prior to a buyer seeing a home with an agent, the buyer must sign an agency agreement with firm and promise to pay the buyer agent's fee in that agreement.
As a result of these rules, home sellers are no longer obligated to offer buyer agents any fee in the sale price of the home. And because buyers must sign an agency agreement prior to seeing your home, the fees agreed to by the buyer are the responsibility of the buyer to pay. A buyer agent can request the fees from the seller but as the seller you are under no obligation to agree.
This is the intended effect of the lawsuits brought against the Realtors. Buyers now have the responsibility to negotiate lower fees with their agent before they see a home.
We are hopeful that buyers will take this new bargaining power and make it better for both buyers and sellers by lowering the fees to all involved.
Contact us at info@flatfeevt.com to learn more or discuss your needs with one of our agents.
