HARVEST REALTY GROUP, LLC
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

Joby began his career as a property manager on exclusive Palm Beach Island managing a multi-million dollar property portfolio. He then joined in the formation of a mortgage company and a real estate investment partnership. Today as a Realtor, Joby uses the experience he gained personally buying, selling, and managing millions of dollars of residential and commercial real estate to provide his clients with a level of service and knowledge that far exceeds that of the average real estate agent. A native of South Florida, Joby spent his childhood years in St. Lucie County. He has called Palm Beach County home for the last 21 years and resides there with his wife and three children. Joby is able to share this knowledge of the Palm Beaches in assisting his clients with their buying and selling needs.  As an agent who's an expert in this local area, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise about buying and selling real estate here. It's not the same everywhere, so you need someone you can trust for up-to-date information. I am eager to serve you. Here are some of the things I can do for you: You need someone who knows this area inside and out! We can work with you to find the right home at the right price for you, including all the neighborhood amenities that matter - not to mention the essential criteria you have for your ideal home. Our team uses the latest tools and technology to provide our clients with instant updates on the newest homes available and the most recent price reductions to get you the information before the competition. Call or email us to setup a free VIP Buyers consultation. Sell a Home Consult on Home Selling Tactics Our team price watches daily and is extremely proficient in analyzing the changing market. We assist our sellers in pricing their home to capture top dollar in the marketplace in the least amount of time. Oftentimes buyers don't visualize living in your home the way you do. I can make your home attractive to its ideal audience - which can help you get top dollar. Things like staging the home, making repairs or minor improvements, or even simply painting the walls can be the difference between a home resting on the market and one that's sold fast. What an amazing year 2015 was for home sellers, and 2016 promises to be even better. By December of 2015, with 5.26 million sales, we had seen a more robust housing market than we've seen since 2006. In fact, as of early 2016, America's housing market had spent 43 consecutive months as a seller's market. Lawrence Yun, the National Association of REALTORS (NAR) chief economist chalks up the heavy sales volume to "the prospect of higher mortgage rates in coming months and warm November and December weather." Get Very Excited if You Plan to Sell Your Home This Year The combination of high demand for homes and shrinking inventories produces a seller's market and typically signals rising home prices. While many forecasters expect home prices to continue rising this year, they caution that they won't climb as quickly or as much as they did last year. "The NAR is calling for a 4.4 percent increase in existing home prices this year and 3.4 percent in 2017; other economists and strategists also put 2016 price growth in the 4 percent to 5 percent range," claims NAR's Adam DeSanctis. In addition, inventories of available homes rose slightly last month. Whether or not this signals a trend toward a more balanced housing market remains to be seen. So, yes - although it sounds trite - the best time to sell your home is right now, while inventory is still low. If you will be selling a home priced in the low-to-middle price tier for your market, expect it to go quickly and for top dollar. You will have little competition and the demand in this price range is strong, according to Shu Chen of CoreLogic. While this type of market makes it easy for home sellers to become complacent, if you expect to get top dollar for your home and want it to sell quickly, do the work required to ensure that it's in move-in condition. Yes, there is still a lot of competition from other homebuyers. This makes it more important than ever to have all your ducks in a row before making an offer on a property. Ensure you know exactly how much you can spend and that you've obtained a preapproval letter from your lender. Make your offer stand out from the others by keeping it lean and mean, with the shortest time periods for contingencies as possible. While we're still in a seller's market, come in with your highest and best offer. The market moves too quickly right now to assume the seller will negotiate over price. Get a positive, helpful partner for buying or selling a home: Joby worked with us daily for 6 months over the internet and another 8 months in person.  Every single day he dedicated his time, respected our budget, and was very determined to find all of our 'must haves' in a home.  The best part, he never made me feel guilty if it was our 10th house in 3 days and I still hadn't found 'the one!'  Come crunch time he was up to bat for us again, working with our mortgage broker and using his business skills to negotiate rates and all those last minute details.   After our closing, the very last thing I said to Joby was, 'Thank you SO much and that's coming from someone who doesn't even like realtors!' We've worked with many realtors, none of which we were dying to work with again.  We have been lied to, misinformed, avoided for days, and left wondering who's side our realtor was actually on.  Hire Joby Slay and you'll be making one of the best decisions you've ever made.  We certainly did!!