Why Sell?
- Due to size or location your current home no longer suits your needs
- Lifestyle or Stage of Life changes:
- Marriage
- Growing/blended families
- Divorce or death of spouse
- Empty Nest
- Recent grads no longer need the college kiddie-condo
- Adult children selling parents’ or grandparents’ estate
Timing the Market
Colby Properties can help you establish a time frame for preparing, repairing and staging the property as well as determine market conditions for you to achieve your most favorable market prices and terms.
Financial Considerations
Our team will work with you and with your team of financial planners, accountants, attorneys and lenders to estimate seller’s proceeds, tax ramifications and estate planning strategies.
Contact a Licensed Professional
In choosing an agent, select a REALTOR®; REALTORS® are held to professional, ethical and industry standards.
Included among the services Colby Properties provides as your REALTOR
- Seller information and education about industry disclosures and mandatory state regulations
- Seller information and research about local economic conditions that affect price and establish market value of their property
- Comprehensive marketing strategy, thorough explanation of selling process and communication of feedback from showings
- Negotiation of offers and verification of buyer qualification
- Generation and disbursement of Purchase and Sale agreement and management of escrow funds
- Coordination and scheduling of home inspections, appraisals, deed preparation and buyers’ final walk-through
- Working with other agents, sellers’ attorney, conveyancing attorney and mortgage officers to ensure the transaction stays on track
Motif No. 1 in Rockport, MA is the most painted building in the United States
(Photo by Alison Colby-Campbell)
- Scheduling with the local Fire Department to test smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors in order to obtain mandatory certificate
- Scheduling Title V inspection to obtain Title V certificate
- Scheduling and obtaining final readings from:
- Municipal light department
- Water department
- Oil or gas companies
- Current tax bill
- Assistance with scheduling of closing and sellers’ move
- Vigilance, communication, problem solving and attentiveness to ensure a successful closing
TRANSITIONAL REAL ESTATE SPECIALISTS
Colby Properties specializes in transitional real estate transactions in the Greater Boston and North Shore areas of Massachusetts. Transitional real estate focuses on those emotion-wrought home sales that may require more time, attention, and guidance; ie. first time home buyers, estate sales, empty nesters, divorces, and single buyers. We aren’t just looking for a quick sale, we are looking for the right sale and taking the right amount of time to keep our customers on track, comfortable, and fully understanding the process.
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