Yes! The real estate industry is well prepared\u00a0for virtual marketing which includes 3D Videos, floor plans, photos, and online platforms. Serious buyers, especially in this market, are well accustomed to receiving information digitally, and understand that most of the data needed to evaluate a real estate purchase can be provided in that format.\u00a0 Nothing can fully replace the experience of physically touring a property, and that part of the process will doubtless\u00a0return, but the truth is that buyers’ awareness of available properties and sorting through those to narrow the search online had already changed the way real estate is sold before restrictions on physical property showings came into being.\u00a0 Real estate professionals have adapted to this new environment, as have their associations (California Association of Realtors and county associations).\u00a0 AFI Real Estate is ready to market your property utilizing all the tools available.\u00a0 In fact, over several years many of our investor clients living outside the United States bought and sold properties they had never visited, based not only on images we were able to convey (much improved recently), but also on the reliable analysis we were able to provide, and the trust we earned by performance.
Now all participants in residential sales are becoming familiar and quite comfortable with closing transactions in the era of social distancing.
Our local buyers feel secure, and they are employed. Most properties are sold to local buyers. We take our time to qualify every buyer and there is no time wasted.\u00a0We only show the properties to qualified buyers. These buyers start by reviewing floor plans and taking virtual tours\u00a0on line\u00a0before visiting the property. New virtual tools allow us to prepare videos in advance or handle showings by Zoom or Face-time, making it more personal.\u00a0 In addition to virtual tours, property inspections and the entire financing process, including appraisals, are now handled either remotely or with minimal personal contact.\u00a0 The transactional documents are completely electronic\u00a0and easy to manage. Title companies handle closings remotely.\u00a0\u00a0
The banks are lending\u00a0and unprecedented low interest rates are very appealing to serious buyers. Sellers have\u00a0to price their properties correctly and agents have to market the property with focus. The question is whether the buyers down payment is available or in stocks? A good number of the Hi-Tech buyers cashed out last November. Their\u00a0companies went IPO last spring and they had to wait 6 months to cash out and they did. The buyer of T1-8H is a good example of the average Tech-industry situation. She was ready to buy in December. Now is a good time for buyers to focus on their goals,\u00a0and part of our job is to help them see the\u00a0opportunity that your property offers.\u00a0\u00a0
Please let us know if we may be of\u00a0service.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afi Valizadeh & Lewis Soffer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes! The real estate industry is well prepared\u00a0for virtual marketing which includes 3D Videos, floor plans, photos, and online platforms. Serious buyers, especially in this market, are well accustomed to receiving information digitally, and understand that most of the data needed to evaluate a real estate purchase can be provided in that format.\u00a0 Nothing can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afirealestate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afirealestate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afirealestate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afirealestate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afirealestate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afirealestate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afirealestate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afirealestate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afirealestate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}