David Barr's Sarasota and Venice Real Estate Blog

Have you thought about hiring a high volume Realtor, or one of the "luxury" brokerages to list your Sarasota home for sale? Think about this: If you have a problem, what are the chances you can talk to the actual person you hired to list your home? Does the "team" business model in real estate give you real customer support? And if a Realtor has 10 or more properties they are listing and marketing at the same time, how often can they hold an Open House for yours? This last point is most important: Our price per square foot for luxury properties is far below that of Naples or Miami. Sarasota has just as nice beaches, with just as vibrant an arts and cultural scene than both those cities. When there's little competition other than to get your home sold, it's not a good recipe to get you the very best price for your luxury property. If you think the Sarasota luxury property market is handled by too few, resulting in low prices,...

Luxury real estate. Ah yes, the sweet excitement of getting to list and hopefully sell a million dollar plus property in Sarasota and Venice. That was the subject of a sales seminar I attended this week. And it fell totally flat, at least for me. Did I really need to attend a luxury real estate seminar, only to find out that my car should be clean for clients, and that I should wear nice clothes to meet luxury home owners? No, no, and no! My suspicion before attending the seminar was that the speaker would be a prime example of what Sarasota luxury real estate represents to many agents. Unfortunately, my suspicion was dead on. In short, her message was that we need to look the part and speak the part to connect with you, Mr. and Mrs Luxury Home Owner, as potential clients. Listen to this blog on my podcast:  https://soundcloud.com/david_barr_broker/sarasota-real-estate-luxury-home-marketing None of this superficial BS matters to a potential buyer, ...