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Back in 1973, a young entrepreneur named Barbara Corcoran launched her namesake residential real estate brokerage with a $1,000 loan and seven agents in a tiny office on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The rest is history. Corcoran has been helping buyers and sellers realize their dreams ever since.
We know that a real estate brokerage is only as good as its agents, and Corcoran has more than 3,000 of the industry’s best and brightest, carrying the flag in our core markets and across the country. Wherever you’ve set your sights, we’re there.
Corcoran agents are backed by one of the real estate industry’s most experienced and effective marketing teams, whose innovative campaigns and sophisticated advertising programs—including the revolutionary Social AI Engine— ensure the broadest exposure for our clients’ homes. For you, that means more buzz, bigger offers, and quicker closings.
From starting the conversation to sealing the deal, your Corcoran agent is committed to earning—and keeping—your trust. We’re part of Realogy, a world leader in residential real estate, and we’ve been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for eight straight years.
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Back in 1973, a young entrepreneur named Barbara Corcoran founded a namesake residential real estate brokerage with a $1,000 loan and seven agents in a tiny office on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The rest is history. We’ve been helping New Yorkers find their dream homes ever since.
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We know that a real estate brokerage is only as good as its agents. Corcoran more than 2,000 of the industry’s best and brightest, carrying the flag in our core markets of New York City, the Hamptons, and South Florida. Wherever you’ve set your sights, we’re there.
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In New York City, the Hamptons, and South Florida, nobody knows the residential real estate scene like Corcoran, and for close to 50 years, our world-class agents have been helping clients buy or sell their homes with confidence.
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Serving communities in NoCal and the Bay Area, with offices in San Francisco and Marin County.
Serving the communities of the Orlando area, with offices in Windermere and Winter Garden.
Serving all of Florida’s sparkling Emerald Coast from our office on scenic 30A in Seagrove Beach.
Serving Chicagoland communities — in the city and beyond — from our New Eastside office.
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Founded in 1973, Corcoran has since become a real estate leader across New York City, the Hamptons, and South Florida. And today, we’re bringing Corcoran values and expertise to new markets across the country.
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Serving the greater Temecula, California area and surrounding counties in Southern California.
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Serving clients across Arizona’s Valley of the Sun from five offices in Scottsdale and Greater Phoenix.
Serving clients throughout the BVI from a flagship office at Oil Nut Bay on Virgin Gorda.
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Purging doesn’t mean ridding your life of your beloved tchotchkes, just ridding your apartment of them.
Selling a Home in New York City
Preparing a home for sale can be daunting — even for homeowners who have navigated the process before. That goes double for homes in New York City. Scroll down to jumpstart your home-selling education, from what questions you should ask your agent to how to negotiate the best deal.
What to Ask a Prospective Seller’s Agent
When you’re enlisting the assistance of an agent to sell your apartment—and signing a contract of exclusivity with her—it’s essential to have a good feeling about the relationship. Do a little detective work, and ask a few pointed questions, before you sign on the dotted line. Finding an agent whose personal and professional values align with yours is the real secret to success.
Do you have a lot of listings?
How often will we be in touch?
How will you fight for me?
What’s your marketing plan?
What else will you do for me?
It’s the little things that matter, and an agent who makes a big deal of your apartment on social media or makes time to, say, attend your home inspection—and gather feedback from the inspector—may be a keeper.
In exchange for exclusivity, your agent needs to create a comprehensive marketing plan for your apartment, one that includes advertising, online listings, and a calendar of open houses—both for prospective buyers and other brokers.
How will you fight...?
What else will you...?
Look for an agent who promises a bold negotiation style and pledges to push for the best terms and conditions for you. But don’t be shy about requesting proof; chat with a former client or request a few war stories.
How often will we...?
What’s your market...?
If the answer doesn’t suggest the required degree of attentiveness, keep looking. You can reasonably expect weekly status calls and emails, and a careful debriefing after each showing and open house.
Do you have a lot...?
There’s no right answer here. Lots of listings can mean you’ve got a powerhouse agent who gets results fast, or one who’ll do the bare minimum for each client. Very few listings could mean an agent devoted to your sale, or one who’ll hurry things along to get the commission.
Getting Ready: Purging, Scrubbing, and Staging
Unless you’re willing to dial down your price expectations, and you aren’t, you’ve got a little manual labor ahead of you. Before the marketing plan is written, before the listing photos are snapped, and long before your first showing, you’ll need to make your apartment truly ship-shape.
Pack it up
Deep clean it
Make it shine
Fix it or ditch it
Stage it (or, virtually)
Stage it (Or, Virtually)
Hiring a company to furnish your home with pleasantly inoffensive décor is a significant investment—at least $10,000 for a one-bedroom and up to 3 percent of the asking price for a high-dollar apartment (more if you have to move out your stuff first). It’s an expense that you as seller will bear alone. But, done right, agents agree: Staging works.
Fix it or ditch it.
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Can’t stomach the cost of a full-on staging? For the purpose of listing photography that doesn’t show an empty apartment (or, worse, your grubby stuff), virtual staging offers a photorealistic digital version of an actual staging for a much smaller outlay. One small tradeoff: Virtually staged listing photos need to be clearly marked as such.
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If it’s broken, now’s the time to make it right. Fix the drippy faucet you’ve gotten used to and the off-kilter blinds in the bedroom. Even if something works just fine but looks as if you found it on the curb, it may need to go.
Make it shine.
Yes, you must paint. Fresh paint looks terrific and the scent is catnip to prospective buyers. It doesn’t matter if the walls are already white: paint them whiter. This is a good time to take a look at your floors, too. Address that cruddy carpeting in the bedroom before it ends up on somebody’s Instagram, hashtag #ick.
Deep clean it.
Sorry, neatnik: Your trusty Swiffer mop and bottle of Windex aren’t going to cut it this time. Selling your apartment requires a deep clean, the sort provided by a team of uniformed professionals. Add a line for it in your budget. Kitchen, bathrooms, floors, windows, all of it—prying eyes will find the crumbs and cobwebs.
Pack it up.
Grandma’s collection of adorable Hummel figurines has to go—at least into a box. Ditto that wall of family pictures and the Lego minefield in the kid’s room. Purging doesn’t mean ridding your life of your beloved tchotchkes, just your apartment of them. Unless your taste is unusually refined, consider moving your stuff out altogether and engaging a staging company to refurnish.
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Purging doesn’t mean ridding your life of your beloved tchotchkes, just your apartment of them.
Be ready to sweeten the deal
Sellers can get creative if negotiations start to stall. Offering to pay taxes or fees can grease the gears, as can adjusting move-in dates to suit the buyer’s schedule or promising a perk—say, a new fridge.
Anticipate the haggling points
Your buyer’s agent will be looking for ways to sweeten the deal. Consider your response before these requests arrive. Buyers could haggle over who pays closing costs, common charges, and flip taxes, along with new kitchen appliances, floor refinishing, and even pieces of furniture.
Remember that...
Be ready to sweeten...
Remember that cash is king
In today’s market, a cash offer outweighs a financed one, and a cash buyer may fare better if you’re selling a co-op and a board interview looms in her future.
Prep your paperwork
Anticipate the...
Prep your paperwork for the buyer’s agent and lawyer with utmost care, including a complete offering plan and documents related to the property alterations.
Get proof of funds
Remember that cash...
Make sure the deal doesn’t fall through due to a financing glitch. In a cash purchase, proof of funds is absolutely essential, ensuring that the down payment or closing costs are covered. For a financed purchase, a mortgage pre-approval signifies a lender’s confidence in your buyer’s fiscal strength.
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