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Real estate agents can go beyond their primary responsibility of buying and selling real estate to offer additional services and support to their clients. This not only enhances the client's experience, but also builds loyalty and encourages word-of-mouth referrals. Here are some of the additional services a real estate agent could provide:
1. **Market Information and Insights**: Provide ongoing information about real estate trends and updates, such as changes in property prices, new legislation affecting real estate, new developments, or investment opportunities.
2. **Home Improvement and Staging Advice**: Help clients with suggestions on home improvements to increase the value of their property, or staging advice to help the home sell faster.
3. **Contractor Recommendations**: Offer a list of reliable contractors, electricians, plumbers, landscapers, and interior designers whom they trust and have worked with previously.
4. **Investment Advice**: Advise clients interested in buying properties as an investment. This may include suggesting appropriate properties, providing rental income estimations, and offering insights into tax implications.
5. **Neighborhood Tours and Insights**: Provide tours and insights into the neighborhood amenities like schools, shopping centers, restaurants, parks, and public transport links.
6. **Relocation Services**: Assist clients who are relocating from a different city or country. This could include recommending moving companies, helping to find temporary housing, or providing a newcomer's guide to the city.
7. *Recommend Typical Real Estate Service Providers *: Assist clients with reputable mortgage brokers or banks, attorneys, appraisers, home inspectors, insurance providers.
8. **Post-Sale Assistance**: Assist clients even after the sale with tasks such as transferring utilities, recommending home warranty programs, or simply following up to see how they're settling in.
9. **Networking Events**: Organize client appreciation events, or local community events, which can be a great way for clients to network and for the agent to maintain relationships.
10. **Annual Home Value Updates**: Offer annual updates on the value of the client's home based on current market trends.
Remember, the key to providing these services is to do so in a manner that is genuinely helpful and not intrusive. The goal should be to add value and deepen the relationship with the client, not simply to sell more services.
Note: An Email Template is also available in FUB should you want to send this to your client. Email is titled "Client Resource Email"
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