Palm Springs Desert Area Real Estate



Choices for Sellers & Rebates for Buyers

Real Estate Services for a Consumer-Centric, Techno-Savvy World

Our goal is to bring Choices to Sellers and Rebates to Buyers by empowering the consumer with knowledge and the tools to save money by participating in the sale and purchase process. To this end, through the Internet and this site, we have brought to you a world of relevant and current real estate and community information. Follow these links and see for yourself:

• eNeighborhoods - Becoming a Neighborhood Expert

• Search the Desert Area MLS for Listings

• Search the Desert Area MLS for Open Houses

• Cities, County, State, Schools, Chambers of Commerce & Local Points of Interest

• Desert Area Community Associations

• zillow.com - Finding the Estimated Market Value of Any Home (beta site)

• Map Quest

On This Site Home Buyers and Home Sellers Learn How to Save Money and Gain Control Through Active Involvement in the Process

We are Real Estate Consultants qualified to analyze your situation and deliver timely and cost-effective, results-based solutions tailored to your specific needs, abilities, and circumstances, whether as buyer or seller.

You don't have to work with a pushy, manipulative real estate salesperson.  We specialize in “consumer-centered, results-focused” real estate consulting services. Whether you are a buyer or seller, we will help you achieve your desired end result quickly and cost effectively without subjecting you to the hassle of high pressure sales tactics.

The times have changed. You do not have to deal with yet another real estate company doing business the same old way for the same old price. Ours is a new real estate business model.

Our focus is on the actual needs and desires of the consumer of real estate services, whether buyer or seller. The Internet is bringing these needs and desires to the forefront and is helping to satisfy them.

In 2000, Gomez.com, an Internet consulting company, surveyed buyers and sellers and arrived at some interesting conclusions, such as:

• Tasks Novice Homebuyers Feel Comfortable Using the Internet To Do (Without an Agent's Help):  

Research Neighborhoods	80%
Identify Properties for Sale	72%
Tour Properties for Sale	44%
Select the Right Mortgage	40%
Select the Right Lender	39.5%
Determine the House to Buy	37.4%
Make Offer / Negotiate Price	24.4%

• 75% of future buyers and 51% of future sellers would want a non-traditional agent relationship. 
   

• Degree of Control Desired Over Next Home Buying / Selling Transaction: 

Want 100% Control	30%
Want 80% Control	40%
Want 50% Control	21%
Want 10% or Less Control	9%

"Sellers want more control over the transaction, while buyers today are more empowered, due to the Internet." Julie Garton-Good (Founder of NAREC)

By satisfying your desire for greater involvement in the transaction, we can also save you money. It's pretty simple. When you buy or sell a home, the agents' commissions are built into the sales price. Typically 3% of the sales price goes to the seller's agent and 3% goes to the buyer's agent.

However, our more efficient consulting business model is built around providing our clients with only the services they really need. This allows us to "unbundle" our services and fees and pass the savings on to you, whether you are the buyer or the seller.

We will help you determine the services you need and then mutually agree a basis upon which we will work together (or not). Here's how:

1. Depending on whether you are a buyer or seller, click on the Seller's Roadmap or Buyer's Roadmap links at left. Take the quiz on each Checkpoint.

2. We will review the results with you in an informal "intake" interview and complete a Consumer Needs Assessment. This is to identify the level of service you require.

3. We will mutually agree a basis upon which to work together to achieve your real estate goals.  Even if we don't reach agreement, you will be a much better informed buyer or seller.

We are consultants. Our role is to "tell" not "sell."  "We guide. You decide."

National Association of Realtors® A.D. Little Study:

"Technology and the consumer will change the business model and execution of the real estate transaction. By 2005, real estate licensees will reframe themselves from salespeople to real estate consultants."

Select Realty Services

23225 Tamyram Road

Sky Valley, CA 92241

Tel: 760-329-3650

Fax: 760-329-1265