Why you should use a Professional Real Estate Broker

Have you asked yourself what to do when you have made the decision of selling or buying a property?
Have you thought if you have enough time or if you know the way and if you have the necessary contacts to do this job efficiently?
Shall the results be the same if you hire the services of a real estate professional? Can a broker, affiliated to the Costa Rican Chamber of Real Estate Professionals, satisfactory solve your needs of buying or selling a property?
The answer is YES, and following are the reasons that point this claim:

The Buying Process
Before making your decision of buying a property, you should make a personal evaluation about your needs, taste and possibilities. This is the moment of looking for a real estate professional, who will help you to concrete all the points of your personal evaluation. Asimismo, the broker will guide you to the best options for you in the market of properties and what is better referring the financing process.

The Real Estate Professional participation consists in …
The broker is not, as many think, a simple property sales agent, but is a professional in advising their clients, in order to help them to achieve an adequate and satisfactory transaction. Is not a person who will only try to sell to you the properties in their listings: they will be who make their best effort, within their possibilities, to find the best property to satisfy your needs, taste and economic possibilities and will use all the possible ways because the broker counts with all the information and contacts to achieve it.
Once you decide to buy certain property, the real estate professional will advise you on prices, financing, contracts, taxes, eastment, something registered against the property, costs of transfer, use of land, and another important aspects, also they will give you the plans of the property, informe registral, certifications of the Registro Nacional de la Propiedad, etc.
Professional real estate agents will only charge you the percentage that belong to them as a commission for selling and NEVER will charge you an over price, because they have to adjust themselves to the most strict norms of ethics and also, they know that honesty and prestige are their highest treasures.

The Selling Process
A property has several prices:
- The one that its owner thinks it worth.
- The one that is given by an expert, based, mainly, in technical considerations of the real estate’s reposition price.
- The value for fiscal effects (the tax on real estate that charges every municipality).
- The possible market value, which is that the broker will give you, based on true data, but related with the price of the property under same conditions at that moment, considering the market, the location and the use that can be given to the property, its shape, etc.
- Finally, the price that is achieved from a buyer.
Once the real estate is valued by the broker and agreeing with you about it, he will give you some recommendations for an easier sell or rent and will advise you which publicity media is more convenient for that specific property: Bolsa Inmobiliaria de la CCCBR, newspapers, flyers, magazines, signs, etc.
Important advise for the owner:
1. Hire the broker of your entire confidence, who counts with the support of the CCCBR. We do not advise you to call so many brokers, because this will put obstacles to the sale and will make them feel that this is not his entire responsibility. All the affiliated brokers have the support of all the co-workers to sell the property.
2. Within your economic possibilities, follow the advise of your broker on which is the better way to show the property: a clean lot, an organized house, painting, necessary repairs, etc.
3. Once you make an agreement, let the broker to show the property freely to his clients. Sometimes the owner does not know when he is harming the sale, due to his anxiety to sell will show gestures and inconvenient intervention. Remember that the broker knows the needs and taste of the buyer.
4. Another problem when selling a property are the pets. Some of the clients could be animal friendly, but they feel uncomfortable when pets begin biting their pants, or bark at them, etc. We should double check the cleansing when you have pets due to the bad odors they produce and their food odor is not precisely nice.
5. Likewise, be very careful to keep everything clean and organized and avoid music or strident noises when clients are looking the real estate. In other side, if the property is not properly