We will text you the 10 questions to ask a listing agent, plus what your home would list for with a top agent.
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Most sellers interview two or three listing agents, ask about commission and price, and hire whoever they liked best. That leaves the questions that actually predict how your sale goes unasked. Here are the ten we would want answered before signing a listing agreement in Scottsdale or Paradise Valley, and what a good answer sounds like.
Not the team, not the brokerage. The agent in front of you. A strong answer is a specific number with addresses you can look up. Selling condos in Tempe is not the same job as selling a $2M home in Paradise Valley.
This pair of numbers tells you whether the agent prices accurately and sells quickly, or lists high and grinds down. Anyone who has the data will share it. Anyone who dodges it is telling you something too.
Most showing activity happens in the first two weeks. You want to hear a dated sequence: prep, photography, video, pre-marketing to their buyer database and agent network, launch day, open house, and follow-up. "We put it in the MLS and on Zillow" is not a plan.
Presentation decides which homes get shown. Look at their last three listings the way a buyer would, on your phone.
A good agent shows you the competing homes, not just the sold comps, and has a written plan for day 30 that is more than "we reduce the price."
On many teams the person who wins the listing hands you to someone else the next day. Ask who returns your calls and what the update cadence is.
Staging, photography, video, print and paid advertising are sometimes included, sometimes billed, and sometimes skipped. Get it in writing.
An agent who is confident in their process will put it on paper. We guarantee your home sold or we buy it ourselves, and 100% satisfaction or our commission back. Details are on our Home Sold Guarantee page.
You want an agent who chases feedback after every showing and who has a process for turning two offers into a better third one.
The honest answer to this question is worth more than any pitch. If every agent tells you the house is perfect, none of them has looked hard enough.
John Gluch has sold Scottsdale and Paradise Valley homes for more than twenty years. Put your address in the form and we will send the checklist to your phone along with what your home would list for with a top agent.
Your home sold guaranteed or we buy it ourselves. 100% satisfaction or our commission back. Both are written, and you can read the terms before you sign anything.
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