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Originally Posted by jeffh
Hello CP,
This may be better suited for realtor thread, but better traffic here.
I am requesting some real estate advice.
I am looking at purchasing a brand new home(having it built). The homebuilder said that if I use their realtor to sell my current home(asking about $380k), I won't have to pay my realtor to sell, just have pay the buyer's realtor. This will save me about $7500 plus I get free staging. My new home will be about 500k. A similar spec home the builder has for sale has an asking price of 511k. The spec home did not appear to have any better extras other than a bigger pie lot. My question is, will it be worth it in the long run to get my own realtor to sell my current home and negotiate a better purchasing price for my new home?
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Also... I see it being highly unlikely that they will negotiate a better price on the spec home. The way the market is right now you'd be lucky that they don't jack up their prices across the board in the coming days even! I just did a sell and purchase with a large home builder realtor so feel free to PM me ...
Might be the same builder and I can weigh in on their realtor. I did do the opposite of you though I sold my new build 2.5 year old home and bought a much older house.
I will add that despite not doing any business with Travis (Realtor1) I have heard nothing but good things.