SARASOTA PREMIER REAL ESTATE, LLC
BRADENTON, FLORIDA

To provide personalized, highly efficient, real estate services. To be the Realtor of choice, valued and trusted for my leadership skills, expertise in residential home sales, with the ability to positively impact the quality of people's lives by helping them live the life they've earned. To fulfill the mission and support it's vision, I will: * Provide a pleasant experience for the customer My business experience includes an extensive career in Corporate Services at two Fortune 500 Companies. As a Corporate Trainer I gained the trust and respect of my peers and colleagues by providing exceptional customer service and a devotion to learning and skill building in a professional environment. As a Business Travel Analyst, I examined industry trends and corporate travel spending of more than 10 million annually for one of the largest financial firms in the country.  My work experience and commitment to my clients offer the characteristics of a reliable, hard-working and conscientious REALTOR®. I make use of this experience, dedication, and commitment, in my daily real estate business. And as your local full-time REALTOR®, I will always conduct myself in a professional and ethical manner. I'm actively involved in my community, volunteering for the Chamber of Commerce and supporting the local Humane Society. I proudly support the Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate CARES foundation by pledging to make a donation to CARES from every closed transaction. By allowing me to assist you in buying or selling a home, you are helping to support a wide array of non-profit educational, health, welfare, environmental and cultural arts programs throughout our community. Together, we can make a difference.  If you or someone you know is buying or selling a home, I have the latest marketing tools and resources to help you achieve your goals on either side of the real estate transaction. Please contact me today to discuss your needs on a personal level. The cornerstone of my business has been built on trust and the ability to exceed my customers expectations, should you meet someone down the road needing assistance, I am never too busy for your referrals! Real estate professionals get that consumers, by and large, ignore housing statistics and the market until they become involved in the purchase or sale of a home. It's only natural then that what impacts the market is a bit of a mystery to many. What determines a buyers' or sellers' market? What factors influence home prices? Of course the answers to these questions and more may be multi-faceted, but it's important to pay attention to them if you hope to keep more of your money when it's time to buy or sell real estate. Exciting Markets for Sellers There's an old saying in the real estate industry that counsels homeowners that the best time to sell a home is when you need to sell your home. Yes, we understand that isn't very helpful. If you're one of the fortunate who has no compelling reason to sell (such as a job offer in a different town or divorce), you have the luxury of choosing when to put the home on the market. Get excited if real estate professionals mention the words “sellers' market.” This is a period in which there are few homes for sale but buyer demand is high. During sellers' markets prices typically increase rapidly and homes sell at or above list price. One of the biggest mistakes we see in sellers' markets is the homeowner who feels that the market itself will bring top dollar for the home, regardless of condition. Be aware that it's the homes in good condition that sell the quickest and for the most amount of money. Regardless if market conditions favor sellers, if your home isn't in move-in condition, it may be passed over by home buyers. A buyers' market—when there is a large selection of homes for sale and few other buyers in the market—is a great time to purchase a home. Unlike a sellers' market, prices aren't rapidly escalating and you won't be competing against a slew of other buyers. These markets are more relaxed so homebuyers can take their time deciding. In a sellers' market, however, it's 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 others by keeping it lean and mean, with the shortest time periods for contingencies as possible. Finally, come in with your highest and best offer. A sellers' market moves too quickly to assume the homeowner will negotiate over price. Regardless of the media's perception of the housing market, there is always a mix of good and bad news, depending on whether you are in the market to buy or to sell. Arm yourself with a professional real estate agent who can supply you with current and local market information (too often what you read in the news is stale and based on nationwide statistics), follow his or her advice and buying or selling a home in any market will be an exciting process. 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.