List My Home without a Realtor

By Luis Pezzini


Selling your home can be a confusing and complicated process made much easier by hiring a professional, licensed real estate agent or broker. When listing my home for sale in today's market, there are many more options available, such as the use of Internet websites, which can attract potential buyers on a global level. A real estate agent can assist a homeowner in the creation of a marketing plan that will sell your home for the most profit possible as quickly as possible.

It is worth a visit to a few of these real estate sales websites to get a feel for the services they can provide. You will likely be ready to say, "List my home!" within minutes of researching such sites. Many real estate listing sites assist homeowners through the entire process of selling their home from listing the site, adding photos and descriptions, all the way to assisting with completing the paperwork for closing. Prices range from free for the most basic services of listing the property with a short description and photos, to several hundred dollars for an agent assisted listing.

With an exclusive listing, the homeowner hires a real estate agent to list my home and represent the homeowner. The owner is still allowed to sell the home on his or her own, which would result in no commission being paid in such case. The real estate broker is allowed to work with other brokers, which means in the event a secondary broker brings an acceptable offer through the first broker, the owner is responsible to pay both sets of fees. This type of listing agreement is not used as frequently as the other types.

An exclusive right-to-sell listing is perhaps the most common type of real estate listing because it gives the real estate broker exclusive representation of the buyer. This type of agreement places most, if not all of the work on the shoulders of the real estate broker and is the best arrangement for homeowners with little time to spare in the negotiation of a home sale. The owner is not allowed to sell the home on his or her own without still being responsible in paying a commission to the real estate agent, unless a specific exception is written into the contract.

Most homeowners find that the right-to-sell listing agreement is the easiest way to list my home, and in most cases if the broker brings in a secondary broker to find an acceptable offer, the commission is shared between the two instead of additional charges being placed on the homeowner.




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