Why choose Barlows Real Estate to sell your property?
That’s a very good question and to answer that question, you may have to look into the future and visualise the absolute best result you are looking for… and if you are like most homeowners, the answer is music to a seller’s ear. You also want a Real Estate Agent who the buyers like, trust and value there help and opinion.
Let us show you the MONEY!
Isn’t this what every Homeowner wants to hear? You simply want the best price in the quickest time possible with minimal, if not “no”, frustrations along the way.
Well that is exactly what we are here for! To be the agent that puts more money in your pocket with less stress!
Buying or selling a home, block of land or investment property is one of the biggest decisions you’ll ever make (involving one of your biggest assets) and naturally, you want the best possible outcome.
You’ll also want sound advice you can trust and discreet professional service you can count on.
Once you get to know us, you will discover we are not just another real estate agency… we pride ourselves on being different in many positive ways that give our clients a significant edge when buying or selling.
Here are just 12 of the many reasons why homeowners consider it a smart decision to contact Team Barlows for their real estate needs.
12 Reasons to consider Barlows – Comprehensive profile
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- Our Marketing Philosophy
- Latest Technology & Social Media Expertise Sells Houses
- Most Importantly Real Estate is about People
- We offer cutting edge technology:
- Customers First – Its all about People, Positive Energy an Enthusiastic Team Environment, Enjoying our work and have fun while we help our customers:
- All Buyers are super qualified
- To achieve top dollar you not only need a top marketing campaign, you need a top relationship person and skilled negotiator on your team
- YOU will not be forgotten – Sellers are not kept in the dark at Barlows Real Estate
- Individual Selling/Marketing Plans
- HOT PROPERTY BUYER MATCHING
- Database Marketing
- Getting Started – You want maximum price!
1. Our Marketing Philosophy:
- It’s quite simple, but very effective. The result, your property reaches a lot more buyers. We will tell the market that your property is for sale using the latest real estate software to tightly synch with the top websites Domain.com and RealEstate.com.au and more.
- Barlows has invested in an Internet Property Marketing Team who know how to market properties effectively on the Internet. A key member of that team is an expert of direct marketing and Internet marketing having worked and one of the leading and largest Internet news sites in Australia.
- Barlows technology edge is, backed up with old-fashioned friendly service that Barlow’s prides itself. Barlows is the number one tech savvy real estate agency in the western suburbs, if not Melbourne.
2. Latest Technology & Social Media Expertise Sells Houses:
- Is a key part of any professional property campaign and recently Barlows updated all its software to ensure we have all the software of other leading agents.
- Our agents in the field are logged on to our systems and Internet adverts in real-time and can update sellers and buyers. As soon as your open for inspection has been completed the vendor can be updated via sms from our hand-held devices to update them and our database simultaneously.
- As mentioned above we have found that up to date systems help sell houses. We leverage the latest software tools; dashboards, Internet sites, search engine marketing disciplines and social media at industry best practice and we are confident we are leading the pack in this area.
3. Most Importantly Real Estate is about People:
- The Barlows team have been carefully selected for their high emotional intelligence, to ensure strong skills in empathy, compassion, empathic listening, ethics and honesty as key traits.
- A major part of selling a property is the personal touch and leveraging state of the art technology. All our staff must attain Barlow Customer Certification, which requires the attendance of many weeks of technical training in people skills, leading edge real estate software, real estate artificial intelligence software tools, and social media. This includes techniques to get the very best price for the vendor.
- As the oldest Real Estate Agency in Melbourne’s West we have had 133 years to get our selling techniques refined as tried and tested winning techniques. We know that buyers want to know as much as they can about the property before they arrange a viewing, so by giving out all the details (address, price, all features, land size, zoning etc.) more genuine and qualified buyers inspect a seller’s home.
- We have our Barlows Tech & Internet Team and that’s why we have an excellent record of sales success, support our sales people so that they can excel Vendor Support and Buyer Assistance.
4. We offer cutting edge technology:
- These days all buyers are using the Internet to do their homework before they go looking and then to monitor sales and new listings, so it’s critical to grab the attention of these buyers and engage them with your property and maintain their interest.
- Keeping buyers interested in all the Barlows properties means we have a good basis of buyers available as all times.
- We have created our website with the goals of the seller and the needs of the buyer in mind, this is why our website is easy to navigate for all ages X, Y, Millennials and Baby Boomers. Just simple menus to help the visitor negotiate through the all information to keep them very well informed about your property and keep them engaged in reading all about it.
- Let’s face it; if the visitor finds the website straight forward and easy to use then they’ll visit it more than any other agents websites and thus more people see your property again and again.
- Customer feedback surveys tells us that ours a preferred website for buyers in the West, because it’s easy to navigate, gives more property photos for the buyer to look at, better property descriptions and tells the buyer everything about the property.
- Therefore our sellers benefit because the buyers benefit by helpful and easy Internet property presentation. This information is all posted on Domain.com, RealEstate.com.au and other leading Real Estate sites in the market.
5. Customers First – Its all about People, Positive Energy an Enthusiastic Team Environment, Enjoying our work and have fun while we help our customers:
- Every day Angus Scott-Walker, our owner, and Theo Panay, our Senior Property Consultant that at the end of the day, Real Estate is still a people business. We believe that we can learn to take a positive out of every situation (no matter how hard it may be). We are positive and enthusiastic about everything we do, from finding a new home for buyers, or helping our sellers achieve a successful sale. But, perhaps more importantly, we have fun while we do this.
6. All Buyers are super qualified:
Super qualified buyer’s means that before we make an appointment to view your property we are not wasting anyone’s time at the inspections.
- We focus on never missing a buyer’s enquiry. If a buyer makes an enquiry about a particular property this is handled by any one of the sales support or sales staff that record on our CRM (Customer Relationship Management software tool) so the entire team is aware of each listing we have for sale.
- Enquiry tracking is the key differentiator between the average agent and the leading agent.
- We are proud of this focussed and technology savvy service and we firmly believe this can be made available by an agency with the most experience as the oldest in the westerns suburbs. With experience and technology on our side we see it’s important to still focus on the intimacy of a boutique agency as that key to sellers and buyers.
- We are after quality listings only and limit the number of listings we take on board, unlike the larger franchise agents where your property maybe one of 400 listed for sale, as your property can be lost in all those listings and the agents can get overwhelmed and lose track of your listing.
- Our hands on approach means an enquiry on your property is handled as soon as it comes in by any of our sales staff who offer assistance and ask probing questions to the buyer before any appointment is made. This level of detailed enquiry could result in a much faster successful sale for you.
7. To achieve top dollar you not only need a top marketing campaign, you need a top relationship person and skilled negotiator on your team:
- We have found that similar properties often do not sell for similar prices! The reason is – salespeople’s negotiation skills are not all the same. Negotiation skills do vary considerably from agency to agency.
- All of our consultants spend considerable time with the owner on a weekly basis together fine-tuning their skills in negotiation. This weekly discipline is the fundamental difference that sets Barlows Real Estate apart, at the end of the day; helps achieve the best price for your property.
- Negotiation training is not an occasional thing or a part-time skills transfer and must be imparted by the most skilled negotiator to the rest of the team.
8. YOU will not be forgotten – Sellers are not kept in the dark at Barlows Real Estate
- We offer an administrative support group and this group follows quality control procedures so you are kept informed at all times.
- State of the art software with a variety of handheld devices is keep to up to date information being shared with vendors as soon as it happens, so you’re not the last to know.
- Your Barlows Real Estate Property Consultant is your main point of contact throughout the sales process, but behind the scenes our admin team provide full backup and support to our property sales department.
- Once again this all links back to the help of state of the art database systems and quality procedures, they ensure that all aspects of your listing and sale are handled quickly and efficiently.
- Our considerable investment in technology will ensure that you will always be kept informed, and there is never a chance of being “forgotten”, even after you have sold your property!
9. Individual Selling/Marketing Plans
- These Marketing Plans are tailored to your budget and property. One size fits all packages are not on our agenda.
- We understand each property is different and so are the owners. We therefore tailor a marketing program that is specifically designed to achieve a premium sale price for you whilst considering your needs and the uniqueness of your property.
- Your individual needs are the most important aspect of your relationship with us.
10. HOT PROPERTY BUYER MATCHING:
- Buyer Matching for your property profile can be done as we have a state of the art rational database similar to the technology used by major Australian corporations i.e. in banking, insurance and government. If its good enough for them its good enough for you.
- Therefore they can be flagged on our Data Base, because at Barlows, technology is our one of key traits. As a seller you need to tap into this valuable resource to secure your best price.
11. Database Marketing:
- Some agencies will tell you they have a large database of investors and yes they do – it’s called a rent roll and the people on that are investors but their goal is to get a property at the lowest price and then rent for the maximum amount which is fair and understandable.
- Conversely you want people who will buy your property with their head and their heart as that gets the price we are after for you.At Barlows Real Estate we search our database for people who are fully qualified and genuinely looking for a home to live in.
- We encourage you to just drop into one of our open homes un-announced and see the service we offer and how we qualify potential buyers firsthand…once you have experienced a Barlows Real Estate Open Home we are confident you will really see our point of difference.
- As we keep in close contact with serious, qualified buyers, we sell a number of properties without going to market. You must understand that most buyers have been looking for some time, and may have missed out on other properties, which is very frustrating.
- By utilising our database of buyers just before launching your property for sale, and it is presented and priced, correctly you could have buyers fighting to buy your home.
12. Getting Started – You want maximum price!
- We develop a professional and detailed strategy that will be reviewed and signed off by the Barlows Owner & Director as “ready to launch” on the Internet portals, local papers, and social media to ensure your property is given massive exposure to keen buyers.
- Your property is featured on key websites and real estate portals such as www.realestate.com.au and www.domain.com.au to name a few. We also will use smaller sites as well if it is deemed suitable. This gives our sellers’ properties huge exposure, rapidly increasing the chances of a buyer finding out about your property.
A Final Word from our Property Sales Leader, Owner & Managing Director - Angus Scott-Walker
Angus Scott-Walker
I do hope you consider Barlows to sell your home or to buy one and if you contact me to sell I will monitor your campaign personally to help you sell your property for the maximum price.
- Our team will care about you, your property marketing campaign and a successful result.
- We care about offering a stress free successful campaign to assist in selling your property
- We care about getting maximum price for your property so you can move onto the next phase in your life
- We care about what you think about us
- We care about what you say about us
- We care and understand it is sometimes difficult to select an agent you want to work with to sell probably your most valuable asset, and if you have arrived at the end of this page and read in full what we offer you as a seller, we encourage you to contact Barlows Real Estate when it comes time to sell your home.
Our strategy is to continue to grow Barlows Real Estate by way of referral and if we don’t truly care about our clients, then you aren’t going to tell anyone about our service and therefore your campaign success and satisfaction is key for us?
We look forward to offering you advice and assistance to get your price.
Please consider Barlows to help you get the maximum price possible
Angus Scott Walker – Owner Principle & Team Barlows
Angus started with Ron Tribe and Associates in 1982, and Barlow McEwan Tribe from 1984).
Barlows the oldest Real Estate Agency in the Western Suburbs – since 1885 / 133 years
