Pricing Considerations
• Her professional insight will determine a pricing strategy for your property that can keep you from missing an opportunity by undervaluing or wasting time by overpricing. Her experience evaluating competing properties and market trends is a first ingredient for the best transaction experience. Claire has access to relevant statistics used to determine your position in the market.
 

Marketing Expertise
• Preparation. Claire will recommend repairs or cosmetic work to improve the appearance of your home. This will minimize time on the market, eliminate problems later and maximize both prospect interest and sales price.
• Exposure to the public. Claire will know best how to use flyers, open houses, mailings and showings to qualified prospective buyers. The National Association of REALTORS® studies show that 82% of real estate sales are the result not of advertising, but of agent contacts through previous clients, referrals and personal contacts.
• Exposure to other industry professionals. Claire will utilize a computerized Multiple Listing data base or other cooperative marketing networks. Once your property is listed, it is statistically likely the buyer will be the client of another agent in our network.
• Advertising: media and frequency. It takes experience to know what works in advertising. Print ads statistically have minimum effectiveness selling a specific property. Claire knows that overexposure of a property in any media may give a buyer the impression the property is distressed of the seller desperate.
• Internet marketing has taken precedence as the most effective means to promote your home. Claire will present your home with text and photos on multiple web sites.
Security
• Working with Claire ensures that showings will be prescreened and by appointment.
 

Negotiating
• Middleperson. Most buyers prefer to negotiate with someone they perceive as unbiased, unemotional and professionally trained. They are more likely to express objections to agents with the hope of resolution when they otherwise might move on to another property rather than talking to you directly.
 

Monitoring, Renegotiating and Closing or Settling.
• After acceptance of an offer, there are an overwhelming number of steps. Claire will guide you through the process of appraisals, inspections and financing avoiding possible pitfalls. There are many required legal forms and processes which need to be followed.
• Following inspection, Claire is equipped to deal with issues by contacting her reliable list of valuable professionals and to help you resolve problems...
• Claire will monitor buyers financing and follow up on all details and important dates right up to closing.
 

In eleven of the last fifteen years, Claire sold more homes in Marblehead and Swampscott than any other agent!

In nine of the last fifteen years, Claire has sold the highest dollar volume of home sales in Marblehead and Swampscott than any other agent!

Record of Sales in Multiple Listing Service (MLS) Marblehead and Swampscott
All Categories (Single Family, multi Family, Condominiums & Land)

CLAIRE’S SALES RECORDS