The Asante Real Estate Business Model
Asante Real Estate offers Full-Service Real Estate at Fair Prices for Home Buyers and Sellers! First, you have the opportunity to buy real estate with an Asante Agent and get 66% of our real estate commission when you find a home. Also, we will Sell your home for just 1% Listing Commission, plus up to a 3% commission paid to the cooperating buyer's broker. This means that your maximum commission is 4%, instead of the customary 6% commission. And if your agent also represents the buyer in your transaction, then your total commission will be only 2%!
What Do You Mean By Full-Service For Sellers?
- Develop a comparative market and strategic pricing analysis to estimate the value of your home.
- Coordinate all inspections and reports.
- Perform professional home staging and preparation consultation.
- Handle all paperwork and disclosures.
- Professional negotiation and closing skills.
- Continual communication with you before, during, and after the sale.
- Solve any problems to ensure a smooth transaction.
- List your home on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS).
- Create a custom Website for your home address & attach a website sign rider to your for-sale sign to create easy one-click Internet access to your custom home website.
- Develop and include an Online virtual tour in the MLS Listing and your custom website.
- Create and include at least 8 - 10 photographs of your home on the MLS Listing.
- Create an expanded narrative describing your home for the MLS Listing and custom website.
- Develop a professional Full color brochure for your home.
- Include your home on local realtor tours.
- Conduct all open houses.
- Send color "Just Listed" postcards to your neighbors.
- Market your home on at least 12 different Real Estate websites.
- List you home on Craig's List.
- Market your home through email to 14,000 Bay Area Realtors.
- Market your home directly to the top 200 Realtors in your locale.
- And more!.
How Does The Buyer's 66% Cash-Back Program Work?
For Buyers who find their own home, Asante will give up to 66% of our Buyer's Agent real estate commission back to you when you Bid online for a home. For a $1M home (offering a 3% Buyer's Agent commission) you would receive $20,000 back upon close of escrow.
And you choose how you want to get this commission refund. You can use this money to:
- Offset your closing costs
- Reduce the purchase price of your home
- Use the refund to increase your offering price (to increase your chance of getting the home in a competitive market), or Receive cash at close of escrow It's Your Choice!
What Do You Mean By Full-Service For Buyers?
Asante Real Estate Agent will draft your Offer, negotiate the transaction with the listing agent, and provide End-to-End Full-Service Real Estate Agency from writing the offer through Close of Escrow, plus post-sale support.
Once an offer is submitted, the Agent will provide End-to-End Full-Service Agency from the Preliminary Negotiations, drafting the Contract and Counter Offers and all the way through close of Escrow, plus post-sale support. This Service includes all Inspections, Due Diligence, Drafting Addendums, and all other aspects of Buyer's Agency. Again, this is End-to-End Full-Service Agency from writing the Offer through Close of Escrow, including post-sale support. At closing, Asante Real Estate will refund to you up to 66% of our Buyer's Agent Commission, in any manner that you choose.
Will Asante Find a Home For The Buyer?
Yes, our Agents will perform pre-offer home search services for the commission that is offered by the Seller.
However, if you want to buy a home and get up to 66% back under the our Direct Bid Program, the PRE-OFFER SERVICES ARE NOT INCLUDED
This Direct Bid Program is designed ONLY for Clients who have already previewed a home and are ready to make an offer to purchase that home. Asante DOES NOT generally provide home tours or any Pre-Offer Services through the BID ONLINE Program.
Direct Bid Program Clients can preview the subject home through an Open House, the Listing Agent, Online, directly through the Seller, or through some other manner.
Does Asante Provide Buyer's Agency Home Search Services?
We provide Conventional Full-Service Buyer's Agents who will help you find and buy a home and provide the following Buyer's Agent Services:
- Preview and Qualify Homes for You
- Help you with Lender Services and Financing Pre-Approval
- Tour You through Prospective Homes
- Provide Home Buying Advice
- Prepare and submit the offer, negotiate the transaction with the listing agent, and provide End-to-End Full-Service Real Estate Agency, from the offer and acceptance through Close of Escrow, plus post-sale support.
Clients Who Work With One of Asante's Full-Services Buyer's Agents to Identify A Specific Property Cannot Subsequently Participate In The Direct Bid Program To Purchase That Property.
Service And Support:
Agents are available by telephone from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on weekdays, and from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Offers must be submitted by 5 p.m. to guarantee same-day service. If you submit an offer after 5 p.m., then your offer may not be reviewed and prepared until the following day. Once the offer has been reviewed and prepared, then your Agent will continue working to present and negotiate your offer to the Listing Agent and Seller, regardless of time.
Our objective is to help you efficiently, quickly and independently locate the home you may want to buy, and HomeyRoamy.com has the following other important features:
- Free Home, Property and Real Estate Search Engine
- No Registration
- No Spam
- No Capturing of Your Personal Information
- We Do Not Share Your Information
- It is a Superb Home Search Engine
What Geographic Areas Asante Real Estate Cover?
HomeyRoamy.com and Asante Real Estate Group serve the greater San Francisco Bay Area, including, San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose California. This includes Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Marin County, Santa Cruz County, and Monterey County, along with the seven counties in the Sacramento area, including Sacramento, Placer and Eldorado counties.
This also includes, but is not limited to, the following Bay Area and California cities: San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco, Marin, Atherton, Burlingame, Belmont, Woodside, Portola Valley, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Menlo Park Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Campbell, Los Gatos, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Saratoga, Sacramento, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Santa Cruz, Monterey , Milpitas, Fremont, and Union City.
Once both you and the Agent agree to have the Agent represent you in the subject transaction, then the Agent will prepare the offer to purchase the home, consistent with your price and terms, meet with you to review and sign the offer, and the Agent will then submit the offer to the listing agent.
Closing The Transaction:
Once an offer is submitted, the Agent will provide End-to-End Full-Service Agency from the Preliminary Negotiations, drafting the Contract and Counter Offers and all the way through close of Escrow, plus post-sale support. This Service includes all Inspections, Due Diligence, Drafting Addendums, and all other aspects of Buyer's Agency. Again, this is End-to-End Full-Service Agency from writing the Offer through Close of Escrow, including post-sale support. At close of escrow Asante Real Estate will refund to you up to 66% of our Buyer's Agent Commission, in any manner that you choose.