What Does A Real Estate Agent Do For Home Buyers?

Posted by Varun Mishra on January 14th, 2021

Real estate agents enjoy working with people and keeping their clients happy to ensure a sale. They go all out to find your ideal home along with the locality and facilities you need. Here are a few simple protocols that an agent does for you while shopping for a home. 

  • Get you a pre-approved loan

A professional real estate consultant in Mumbai will have a huge network of agents, lenders, and other professionals in the industry that you can connect with. Your agent will be able to connect you with a lender for a pre-approved loan if you are shopping in a competitive market. You want a pre-approved loan before someone else snaps up the house, and all your lender needs to do is verify your employment, income, and credit history and then provide you with the same. 

  • Help you pick your dream home

Looking for a home is exhausting even with all things go smoothly. A good real estate agent will help you narrow down your search and save your time and energy by asking you a list of specific questions and then defining exactly what you want. With all this information, they will be able to help you focus on the type of location, neighborhood, property type, and school district you want without wasting your time and showing you properties that you’re not interested in.

  • Negotiate an offer

When you finally find a home you love and it’s time to make an offer, what offer do you put forward? Making an offer too low isn’t smart as the seller will ignore it and on the other hand, you don’t want to pay much more than the property is worth as you will be losing out on a lot. A real-estate consultant in Mumbai will hit the sweet spot – being experts they know the exact number to put on a house depending upon certain facilities and location details. 

  • Help you find a home inspector

Some home inspectors are better than the others and your agent will connect you with them. They will come and take a look at the house before you buy it and point out any flaws that maybe there so you can avoid purchasing it and save your money for a better place. Your real estate agent in Goregaon east will encourage you to get your home inspected by a reputable inspector you can depend on.

  • Attend a home inspection

If your home inspector misses out on anything then your agent should be able to catch it. Their job is to ensure everything goes smoothly and will help you understand the results of the home inspector as well as let you know if the house is worth investing in or not.

Finally

Several details need to be addressed when you finalize a closing and your real estate agent will have all those small details taken care of to reduce your stress and time spent finding the ideal home. 

Resource box: Open Minds is a registered real estate company operating in Mumbai which provides deals in both residential as well as commercial real estate with a focus on properties by Oberoi Reality that is luxurious, comfortable, and quality conscious. 

 

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