It’s important to hire a professional real estate agent that is familiar with the area you are listing your home in and seeking to buy a home in and here’s why;
Each area has it’s own unique set of attributes, logistics, politics, taxes and other aspects that impact real estate.
If you are selling your home it’s important to chose an agent that specializes in your area because they will know about details you won’t think of such as open house signage community laws, strategic relationships and networks within the community they can leverage to bring more attention to your home sale, special security protocol to implement to help ensure the safety of your property and community events that may impact the timing of strategic home sale marketing campaigns.
It’s equally important to hire an agent that is familiar with the location you are seeking to purchase a home in. Maybe you are buying from out of state and know the city you want to live in but no specifics. This is where you need to make sure you hire an agent that is extremely familiar with the area and equally able to understand your specific preferences and priorities. If they cannot understand what you are looking for specifically they may make suggestions based on their working knowledge of the area but not based on what would make you, the client, happy.
An excellent buying agent will create a profile of your personal and unique specifications, prioritize those and then filter all possibilities through that lens. This will reduce your time being wasted looking at properties that may seem good to the agent but don’t fit what you are looking for specifically. A good buying agent will literally become a virtual you and seek properties that are a good match for you, not them.
There are also those situations where you are seeking to sell your property but may not be satisfied with the agents that are near you. In that case it would be a good idea to seek an agent that will fulfill the type of agent you are seeking to hire even if they are outside of your local area. The skills they bring to the transaction will most likely exceed the local experience other less then able agents would bring to the table for you.
