Why you should work with a qualified real estate agent in Los Cabos, Mexico, to buy or sell your dream home in the Los Cabos market
Have you ever offered the benefit of quality service before? Have you ever had someone ask you about it, look at the rates, and go, “oh, it’s ok, the price is too high, and I’ve got a friend or cousin who can do it for me anyway”? I bet you have, and I bet you’ve probably rolled your eyes at it more than once—unfriending the particular someone.
Imagine this someone doing this not to get a free, shoddy design for an upstart brand but to get help in real estate matters in one of the most competitive and coveted vacationing beach locations in Mexico: the Baja. That’s just a disaster waiting to happen.
So, rather than follow the example of this hypothetical corner-cutter, you’re better off following some sound advice from yours truly. You don’t want whoever is helping you. You want an expert, a quality professional, a listing agent that will guide your way throughout the murky waters of luxury, high-end, beachfront real estate acquisition (and sale/presale) in the Baja, and all the locations that imply.
From the beachfront, late-night lifestyle of Cabo San Lucas to San Jose del Cabo, from the tranquil oceanfront lifestyle of La Paz to Todos Santos. If you’re looking for it, then they’ll make sure to find it for you.
Of course, not all experts nor their services are of equal quality. Today, I’m giving you the four tips (or steps, if you will) you need to find and work with the best listing agent for your Cabo beachfront real estate ventures.
Broaden your scope and ask about multiple listing agents in the Cabo area with satisfied Baja homeowners
Before making any decisions, it’s best to consider your options. The bigger the decision, the more prospective agents you should consider: buying a luxury, oceanfront house or selling one in Los Cabos. Considering the wide berth of available high-end developments throughout the Baja, it is fitting. Be it the commercial homes of Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo or the more laidback, yet still nevertheless high-end, beachfront developments in Todos Santos and La Paz.
When it comes to finding that ideal listing agent for either buying or selling developments in the Cabo area, your best bet is to scour through word-of-mouth advertisements throughout the Baja location.
Anyone can build up an online reputation of supposed high-end quality based on numbers, metrics, and keywords. Not everyone will have the accolades of close friends and relatives alike, especially those that live near the location, the oceanfront home for sale (or presale) hotspot of Mexico.
The key difference you should look for is the experience of the service you want to support your operation and investment. It’s why people ask for understanding during a job interview. All those fancy diplomas and numbers are great, but when there’s someone, or in this case, multiple, satisfied, oceanfront homeowners (and sellers) spread throughout the region—enjoying the 24/7 sunny beach Los Cabos lifestyle no doubt, then it’s even better.
As a measuring stick, don’t use listing agent commissions during house or condo development sales. Consider the efficacy and benefits of the services instead.
An agent’s commission isn’t up to them to decide most of the time, as the broker represents them. The broker, the buyer’s agent, and the buyer’s agent broker split the commission paid.
A bit of a mouthful, but this should tell you that you shouldn’t focus on the commission earned after selling a beachfront property. Instead, you need to pay close attention to the benefits of the services provided by the listing agent and the broker during the operation. That’s the key.
It should come as no surprise that the better the quality of the marketing employed, the higher the chances of landing showings for the dream oceanfront home (or condo development, if such is your fancy), sale slash presale propositions, and, most importantly, signed deals.
Sales are all about competition, and you better believe a place as competitive as Cabo San Lucas will have its fair share of champions running about, and it’s their services that you want, no one else’s.
Even if you’re not in the sale scene yourself and are only looking to buy a beachfront property, the quality of the realtor’s services when selling said development is directly proportional to their efficacy as property searchers for up and going buyers such as yourself.
Always consider your listing agent’s advice when promoting your dream home development throughout Baja California Sur.
Once you’ve found the ideal listing agent and looking not to buy but to sell a home, condo, or resort around Baja California Sur, always pay close attention to their feedback. Everything they’re doing is for the sake of moving your lucrative, beach dream home, condo, or resort property at a faster pace with potential buyers throughout Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo, La Paz, and so on.
Cleaning, refurbishing, repairing, whatever the feedback may be, take note and follow through. Little details go a long way, and house presentations can often lead to dissatisfied potential buyers, if not canceled deals if there’s too much excess of these tiny smidges marring the property’s condition. Think repairs, except, in this case, they’re much more glaring and staring the potential sale right in the face, telling them the price will be much higher than what’s stated on the tag.
So, yes, don’t take the agent’s advice on hiring a home inspector to heart. No property is perfect, even if it’s a pristine beach Los Cabos house near Palmilla. We need to account for hiccups, as much as it may harm our egos, lest we want those return investments to fall flat and those viewings to dry up as fast as the high season.
After a reasonable inspection and proper refurbishment of your real estate for sale (or presale), be it homes, condos, or resorts (interchangeable, really), your development will be more attractive to possible buyers. Rather than giving off a feel of false advertisement during the showing, after the agent built up a fantastic marketing campaign, you’ll instead give them precisely what the ad promised.
Be patient with agent processes and feedback, and keep on moving forward with your Los Cabos real estate property
Selling real estate takes time, let alone high-end beach homes at Los Cabos, La Paz, or even Todos Santos. You shouldn’t feel unmotivated when you don’t see many results during the first couple of weeks or even months despite a fantastic marketing plan backing you up.
Your agent is putting in the hours to get your property moving. If things start to slow down to a crawl, they’ll make sure to refresh the operation with a much due market update and condition analysis, just so that the campaign doesn’t fall behind the latest pricing trends.
Either way, you can rest assured that your property won’t remain stagnant in the market pool of the Baja California Sur. It’ll take time, yes, sometimes more than you bargained for, but Los Cabo’s booming real estate market won’t leave you hanging for long, not when you’ve gone through the effort of getting the help of a professional word-of-mouth-approved crew.
