The Cobb Group Blog - realtor

An Expert Advisor Will Give You the Best Advice in Today’s Market

Having an experienced guide coaching you through the process of buying or selling a home is important in a normal market – but today’s market is far from normal. As a result, an expert real estate advisor isn’t just good to have by your side, they’re essential.

Today’s housing market is full of extremes. Experts project mortgage rates will continue to rise this year, and that’s driving significant demand for homes as buyers want to make their purchases before rates climb even higher. At the same time, an absence of sellers is leading to record-low housing inventory. This imbalance in supply and demand is creating bidding wars and driving home price appreciation as well as considerable gains in home equity.

These market conditions can feel…

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Why Selling Your House with a Real Estate Professional is Essential

Now is the time to get your home ready to list, and here is why listing with a well-known professional (like us!) makes a difference. 

Selling your house is no simple task. And when you sell on your own – known as a FSBO (or For Sale by Owner) – you’re responsible for handling some of the more difficult aspects of the process without the expert guidance you need.

The 2021 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) surveys homeowners who recently sold their house on their own and asks what difficulties they faced. Those sellers say some of the biggest headaches are prepping their house for sale, pricing it right, and handling the required paperwork.

Working with an agent is the best way to ensure you…

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Why You Need an Experienced Real Estate Agent

When you are in the market to buy a house—or need to sell your current home—that is the time to use an experienced real estate agent. An inexperienced agent can cost you time and money, and unfortunately maybe even put you at risk of losing out on your dream home.

Gauging Experience 

Instead of asking how much experience an agent has, ask how many times the agent has renewed their real estate license. In Oklahoma, for example, real estate licenses are issued for three years, New Hampshire's term is two years, and California has four-year terms.

Search your own state's real estate commission—or equivalent office—website to find how long licenses last. Knowing how many times an agent has renewed a license allows you to…

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The 3 Biggest Complaints People Have About Real Estate Agents

With real estate being so busy these days, we know that you are looking for Best of the Best when it comes to Realtors in the Lowcountry. We're sure you know a lot of Realtors and some you like and some you don't. Being the best is important to our team, and working hard for our customers with strong integrity means even more. We have high expectations and treat each of you the way we would like to be treated. Trust is #1 in our book, and we do not take this lightly in anything we do. We know how to get the job done and take pride in paying attention to the details. Let us show you what it means to work with Realtors that care about building and growing relationships. Reading this article by Million Dollar New York's Ryan Serhant, had us thinking...maybe…

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Market Volume Numbers

One thing we know for sure is that partnering with Charter One is not only a benefit to The Cobb Group but also you - our clients. We benefit from a lot of behind the scenes marketing tools that only adds value to you in selling and purchasing.

If you are the market to buy or sell, we would be happy to sit down and tell you more. Give us a call.

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