Whether you are buying or selling a home, the services of a professional real estate agent can make a big difference to your outcome. Here's how to pick out one who will give your purchase or sale the golden touch.

At this point, it’s no secret: The Texas real estate market continues to defy expectations, with a boom brought on before the pandemic — and certainly accelerated by it — that doesn’t show signs of slowing. The seller’s market that skyrocketed in the summer of 2020 has led to homes being listed for extremely short periods of time, often hours, before an offer rolls in. In many circumstances, buyers are submitting contracts for well over asking prices, [...]

If your home just isnt selling, any number of reasons could be in play. In some cases, this might not have anything to do with your home and everything to do with the market youre selling it in. However, you could be making some common missteps. (Dont worry: Youre not alone.) According to several of the skilled agents at Briggs Freeman [...]

If your home just isn’t selling, any number of reasons could be in play. In some cases, this might not have anything to do with your home and everything to do with the market you’re selling it in. However, you could be making some common missteps. (Don’t worry: You’re not alone.) According to several of the skilled agents at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, these home-selling mistakes are more common than you [...]

If you’re preparing to sell your home in Texas, you could go it alone and broker your own sale. It’s a seller’s market, after all. So, why do 88 percent of sellers in the U.S. engage the services of a professional real estate agent? If you’re a first-time seller, you can easily underestimate how demanding it is to list, stage and market your home — and that’s before you reach the technical and legal challenges of closing a sale on your own. Discover the difference a [...]

Even in a seller’s market — such as the one Texas currently enjoys, with multiple offers on almost every home — starting the selling process with an appropriate listing price is key to a faster, smoother sale. However, for most sellers, finding out how much their home is worth remains something of a mystery. Help is at hand. One of the most valuable services a real estate professional can provide is a comparative market analysis (CMA). Here’s how a professional comparative market [...]