There is an art to selling a luxury home.
Just as an art gallery carefully displays art, we position your property in its finest light to showcase its highest value.
We strongly believe that a properly detailed and executed marketing plan, accompanied by topnotch negotiating skills, provides our clients with the best results, and elevates their experience. The following pages describe what we do to prepare, market, negotiate and sell your home at its optimum price in this unprecedented real estate market.
Visual Storytelling
Staging a home in preparation for open market is a form of art. It begins with a vision of how to achieve an aesthetic that will attract a carefully selected buyer profile and ends with a showcase of the home’s premier qualities that provides the seller with an edge. Our staging is superior in the market place and curated by an expert led team of designers.
The goal with staging the properties we market is to provide a uniform look with new, current furniture, that allows your home to compete with new construction how products. We see our clients consistently receive a 15-20% ROI on the costs of staging. Staging also paves the way to capture the very best images of your home from our high end photographers so we can create an emotional connection with the home, showcase the “art of the possible” and procure a buyer candidate to fall in love with your home! Each home is different. Some homes need entire staging through out, some need minor staging through out, either way, we will ensure your property looks its very best so you receive the max value on your property.
Most of the projects we take on, there are minor repairs needed as well. We engage with a top-tier network of trusted professionals that assist with everything from extensive remodeling and landscape architecture, to painting and home cleaning services. We work with you to make a plan and execute to ensure your home looks its absolute best.
All in all, our goal is to create a streamline, stress free selling experience for you. We just need the keys!
Strategic Videography
The first showing takes place online.
Video offers buyers the ability to truly establish an emotional connection through music and movement, as well as understand the floor plan, features and flow of a property. We showcase our property videos which are an important part of our overall marketing campaign. Videos not only share the story of the home but bring thousands of impressions online, on social media, and reside here on our site for your enjoyment.
Professional Photography
A picture paints a thousand words.
We invest in our properties to make sure they are presented as professionally as possible. After working to make your home look it’s absolute best, we work with trusted, high level & top notch photographers to produce high quality photos. Our vendors take the time to shoot daylight, dusk and aerial photos to attract buyers. Need we say more?
3D Tours
The homebuying journey can begin any time of day.
Today’s technology allows home shoppers to view homes with the click of a button. We believe in leveraging tools to make this experience immersive. 3D tours allow buyers to see a to scale version of your home, when it is convenient for them. With these 3D virtual tours, we can take your home to a new dimension! Our goal with this tool is to give buyers the feeling of being in a new home, & help them start picturing the home as well as showcase the wonders/spaces & places within the home. See below for a recent tour we created for a home in Kirkland.
Local Publications
WE HAVE ACCESS TO PREFERRED PRINT and digital advertisements WITH THE BEST MEDIA OUTLETS THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. MARKETING A LISTING LIKE YOUR’S TAKES A TAILORED SET OF SKILLS, AN INTEGRATED MARKETING PLAN AND THE BACKING OF AN INCREDIBLY CONNECTED COMPANY. OUR EXCLUSIVE LOCAL MARKETING PARTNERSHIPS ARE DESIGNED TO CREATE MAXIMUM EXPOSURE FOR YOUR PROPERTY.
Gateway magazine
Gateway celebrates all that the Bay Area has to offer. From the finest homes, cosmopolitan living, high-end design, captivating destinations and the art of refined luxury. gateway magazine is the premier lifestyle and real estate publication for high net-worth individuals in the region.
PSBJ'S Home of the Day
Featured on afternoon eNewsletter and online promotion, Home of the Day is a unique opportunity to showcase your property each month to over 340,000 affluent home buyers with a net worth over $2.4 million in the Seattle market.
Luxury Home Magazine
Luxury Home Magazine is the leader in the market specific presentation of luxury homes and the luxury lifestyle. The publication is an oversized Coffee Table Magazine featuring beautiful photography of exceptional homes with an easy to read layout. Utilizing the most effective methods of targeted delivery to the wealthiest and most affluent buyers and sellers of luxury real estate, Luxury Home Magazine is devoted to providing the highest quality of homes, goods and services available to readers. Luxury Home Magazine, the definitive publication for luxury real estate.
RESIDE® Magazine
Custom-publishing program with Dow Jones Media Group. RESIDE® is conceived in the belief that home and living in full are inextricably entwined, RESIDE® is the Sotheby's International Realty brand’s magazine devoted to the finest in inspirational homes and lifestyles worldwide.
GEEKWIRE'S GEEK HOME OF THE DAY
A real time voting tool puts consumers in the driver’s seat to select the current “Geek Home of the Day” as more than 1 million unique visitors per month visit the website digest the daily newsletter and are presented with the region’s most extraordinary properties.
Kirkland Lifestyle Magazine
With a focus on hyper-local placement, Kirkland Lifestyle appeals to affluent readers on Seattle’s Eastside. Each edition has a readership of over 85,000 and placement on both print and digital platforms makes this a dynamic publication.
Client Experiences
100+
Testimonials
4.9
Star Rating
375+
Successful Sells
Above and Beyond
“Brian went above and beyond what was expected. We met Brian when he was selling a home across the street. We researched what Sotheby's International Realty did with marketing and were instantly smitten by their attention to detail. We couldn't have done better in choosing a Realtor that sold our custom home in record time. From prep, to staging, to listing, Brian and his team held our hand the whole journey. We highly recommend Brian to be your next Realtor.”
Brown
Always There
“Brian and his team were fantastic to work with. From the staging of my house through closing, they were always there to make suggestions and answer my questions. I will definitely use them again and recommend them to my friends!”
B. Werner
Dedicated and helpful
“I was referred to Brian through an out of area realtor. Brian was on the ball! I had to move fast on a house, and he was on it! He dropped all he was doing, arranged to meet me as I flew in, and held my hand the whole way. Brian was professional, dedicated, and helped guide me through the whole process.”
Jeanine Conforti
Incredibly Responsive
“Brian was incredibly responsive, positive, and professional throughout our home buying process. We contacted him after we found our dream home as he was referred by our mortgage broker. He met us at the home within the hour and created an offer that was aggressively structured yet within our price cap. As the result of his expert handling our offer was accepted from among five competing offers!”
Chris B.
Professional and knowledgeable
“My wife and I used Brian to sell our previous home and to purchase our current home. I cannot say enough about how professional and knowledgeable Brian was during the process. He was able to market the home and price it correctly. We were very happy with the fact that Brian treated us not only as his clients, but also as friends. I would HIGHLY recommend him to anyone looking to either sell or purchase a home!”
Kelly V.
simply awesome
“Brian and his team are simply awesome. He and the team helped us find the right house in the right neighborhood for the right price. He was always on our side working to make our house purchase as easy as possible. The best part about working with Brian was that he was always more focused on answering our questions, giving us good advice, and finding homes that met our needs than he was on closing a deal.”
Patney
Buy, Sell or Build
Ready To Buy?
Attentive & Professional Guidance Every Step Of the Way.
We pride ourself on the dedication and level of service we provide to our home buyer clients. We offer a strong personal commitment to our clients by providing premier service. We are committed to quality, customized service, and consistent communication every step of the way.
We begin by listening attentively to understand every objective from the start. We are experts in searching and negotiating homes and make every effort to provide prompt service and stellar results. We remain at your side throughout the entire process, from start to finish, as we diligently track the closing process on the purchase of your new home.
Ready To Sell?
Simply Put, The Absolute Best Marketing Team In The Business.
Our winning combination of professionalism, experience, technology, and style ensure that we can sell your home for the highest possible price in the shortest period of time. Our innovative style and necessary tools exceed the demands in our highly competitive, modern market. We have extensive experience from the initial staging, strategic website photos, marketing, contracts, financing, to negotiating the best price for you.
Our Approach
Home Presentation – Staging and Photography are our top tools. We get one chance to make a 1st impression. Staging a home truly takes away any distractions and puts the focus on the home, in addition to creating a product that competes against brand new, high cost new construction. We take time with each listing to ensure your home is viewed by others in it’s “best light”. Our stylist/room planning team works with each client to ensure your home is a neat, streamlined, appealing space that draws in buyers! She does this by evaluating your home, room by room, and makes specific changes from simply rearranging furniture and accessories, helping you clear out clutter, to depersonalizing.We strive to create an emotional response with buyers with every listing we market, and it works.
Q: Costs for staging? We have many ways to make staging possible for you, and the minor inconvenience, paves the way for maximum return.
Marketing – Our marketing plan is designed to drive awareness to the extraordinary properties we represent. With an emphasis on cutting-edge advertising technologies, strategic content integration and social media traffic drivers, we utilize hand-selected media powerhouses whose innovation, experience and international impact allow our network to successfully connect buyers and sellers locally, and globally. We have access to preferred print advertisement publications and placements with custom media buys dedicated to our clients unique property profile.
Negotiation – This is where we soar. Negotiation is our strong suit and ignites a passion inside of us when we engage for our clients. We set out to get the very best for you every time.
We are happy to share our recommended lenders, inspectors, contractors, house cleaners, whatever it is you might need we are here to give you the ultimate selling experience.
The Journey of a Listing
When a listing is marketed through my brand, Sotheby’s International Realty®, it immediately begins a journey to worldwide exposure. See how I market your listing:
Ready to Build?
A Global Brand with Local Expertise.
Our executive team has more than two decades of experience representing builders, developers and lenders from concept to closing. So whether it’s a boutique subdivision or a high-rise condominium tower, learn what our global brand with local expertise can do for your next new community:
Planning:
land acquisition analysis
financial consulting
competitive market analysis
detailed market tours – home tours
feasibility studies – assist where needed
target demographic
site planning, product mix and building amenities consultation
floor plan and interior design review
Design appeal has perhaps the greatest influence on a project’s success. At a project’s inception, RSIR draws on the developer’s vision and leverage our own market experiences to add value along the way. We ensure good ideas are leveraged and compromises are minimized in the search for a differentiated product offering.Architectural Collaboration | Project Massing | Building Systems & Materials |Mixed-Use Integration | Programmed Concept Differentiation
project approvals and legal document review
New Home Sales:
new home sales management and brokerage services
initial pricing recommendation and revenue forecasting
sales, pricing and product release strategy
It costs a lot less to make modifications on paper than it does in the field. That’s why RSIR has developed a series of project testing solutions to run real time with critical decision making. Our unparalleled approach provides the confidence for developers and lenders to seize unique opportunities in the marketplace while reduce the risk of relying on intuition alone. We’ve engineered our services to work where there are no comparables – in fact, that’s our preference to define a successful market niche.Research Methodology | Project Beta Testing | Base Offering Programming | Multi-Variant Surveys | Competitive Analysis | Likely Demand Analysis
regularly updated competitive market reporting
legal document coordination and review
recommendations on financing options and alternatives
assistance in applying for and gaining FHA and FNMA approvals
interviewing, hiring and training of onsite sales team
management of prospect database and follow-up
Innovation is rarely accomplished by making incremental changes based on “rear view” analysis alone. That’s why we deploy proven techniques to understand what our consumers are looking for today and tomorrow. Our proprietary methods of triangulating datasets generate the most likely market truths to base critical decisions well before a project breaks ground and all the way through the development and marketing process.Buyer Demographics | Active Consumer Surveys | Buyer Focus Groups | Agent Focus Groups | Blog Reconnaissance | Customer Satisfaction
careful oversight of each presented purchase and sale contract
complete sales management through the last closing
daily and weekly reporting of buyer traffic and sales
tracking of construction progress and available inventory
tracking of punch list and maintenance needs
weekly meetings between the developer and sales team
To ensure our client’s success we provide a single resource to organize and implement all sales-oriented tasks. Our infrastructure and approach enables our clients to make smooth, strategically timed sales decisions throughout a dynamic project lifecycle.Proforma Development Consultation | Vendor Relationships & Coordination | HOA Structuring and Budgeting Collaboration | Product Offering Confirmation | Construction Lender Liaison | Legal Documentation Review
New Home Marketing:
marketing management and budgeting
recommendations for vendors including interior design, graphic design, printers and signage companies
managing the graphic design process – branding, signage, web design, print materials
sales office critical path, layout, design and set-up
model home coordination with interior designer
advertising planning
media buying
content marketing, online advertising and social media marketing
media relations and press releases
event planning and management
broker outreach
prospective buyer database outreach
regular marketing analysis and plan updates
Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty (collectively “RSIR”) provides a vertically-integrated, one-stop solution for market research, product development, marketing and sales solutions for high-value, mixed-use developments with more than 20 years of direct experience in the Seattle/Bellevue metro area. The principals draw upon many core disciplines and real estate development and marketing pedigree that has bought national honors and benchmark-setting results for those that engage with RSIR. Candidly, RSIR was engineered for the precise role that is required by Client for the Project – a single resource to manage and deliver the entire revenue side of the proforma from concept to closing.
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Our Brand & Marketing
See how our connection to Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty allows for stellar marketing in Our Brand section. All of our services come with the perks of local and global connections through our brokerage, as well as the trusted quality and prestige of the Sotheby’s name.