Sellers
List your home on the MLS for as little as $750 and avoid paying a 6% commission
Buyers
Browse homes and find out how to get up to a 2% commission rebate on the purchase price of your next home
Flat Fee MLS Listing Service in Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia
Why would you agree to pay a real estate agent a 6% commission to sell your home when you can get the same listing in the same MLS for $750 or same service for 1.25%?
- Little or no commissions means you can afford to sell your home for less and price is the biggest factor of success in selling a home.
- We answer our phones 7 days a week! There are few real estate companies that are as responsive as we are to our clients and to buyers who inquire about our listings. (Call some and compare!)
- We guide you and help you every step of the way
How do we compare? For a home valued at $500,000:
Traditional 6% Agent
List Lite Realty With a Buyer’s Agent
List Lite Realty Without a Buyer’s Agent
Compare Plans
List Fast
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Listed on MLS and other syndication websites Listed Same Day for 1 Year 30 Photos Uploaded by Seller
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Blank GCAAR or MAR contract
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One Free Open House announcement
Owners Option
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Listed on MLS and other syndication websites Listed Same Day for 1 Year
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30 Photos Uploaded by Seller
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Blank GCAAR or MAR contract
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Two Free Open House announcement
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Document Review Showing Time Scheduling Yard Sign
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Calculating closing cost
Full Service
1.25%-
Full Representation you'd expect from a traditional 6% broker. No upfront cost
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Professional photo shoot w/aerial shots, 3D and Video tour
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Agents will advise and represent you in ALL contract and repair negotiations and help complete all necessary paperwork
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Sentrilock Box Comparative Market Analysis to help you determine home price.
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Yard Sign Included Unlimited open house announcements Etc...
What is the SAME about List Lite and Traditional 6% Brokers?
Timeframe Guarantee: If we get all your paperwork and photos by 11 am on a weekday, we’ll get you listed the same day. You will have the yard sign and lockbox the next business day. Allow 3-day turnaround for photos and digital marketing.
- Property listing in MLS (Multiple Listing Service)
- Listing appears on Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia, etc., all the websites that display MLS listings
- Electronic Sentrilock box for security
- Showingtime to schedule showings
- Professional Realtor Yard Sign
- Supply comparable sales data of homes sold in your neighborhood to help determine the best list price
The Difference Between a Traditional 6% Broker and List Lite
Traditional 6% Broker
- If a buyer calls your listing agent about your home, the focus is on gaining a buyer client, not on selling your home, so buyers are often steered to other homes. If the buyer happens to buy your home, the agent gets the full 6% commission
- When you or your potential buyers call an agent, usually a voicemail answers. Even worse, sometimes the message says, "... calls received after 5pm will be returned the next business day". What happens on weekends?
- Agent comes to your home to talk you into signing a listing contract.
- The standard contract used by most agents obligates you to pay the full commission if you sell your home yourself, decide to lease it, or if you want to cancel.
List Lite Real Estate
- Any buyers inquiring about your home who do not have an real estate agent are referred directly to you, and you have the option of showing the home yourself and saving the 3% buyer's agent commission. Buyers are never even told about other homes.
- We answer our phones LIVE 9am until 8pm everyday and emails ae answered from 9am until 10pm everyday. If it goes to voicemail (which can happen if the entire staff is on the calls), the call is returned within 30 minutes until 8pm.
- You sign the listing agreement online or via Docusign when you are ready.
- You have no obligations and can cancel any time with all of our plans.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Registration Act, 1908, the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 and the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 mandates the registration of an agreement for sale of an immovable property. By registering the agreement for sale of an immovable property, it becomes a permanent public record. Further, a person is considered as the legal owner of an immovable property only after he gets such property registered in his name.
Yes! Look at our optional services when you list your property. You’ll have the option to purchase these additional services during checkout and can even purchase them later if you discover that you want to use them.
No, we work with sellers, buyer and investors in Washington Dc, Maryland and Virginia. If you are located in another state we also may be able to help you. Please contact us to find out more.
Typically transfer taxes are not imposed for property transfers between family members if the sale is a gift. This includes gifts to spouses, children, parents, siblings, grandchildren, grandparents, domestic partners and former domestic partners.
Typically the buyer will need your seller disclosures. You can get your state specific documents from us!
- Vacant, but it doesn’t make a huge difference.
- Don’t go through extra trouble of moving out so it can be vacant, but don’t make any effort to furnish a vacant house because somebody told you it will show better that way. If you have tenants, it’s better to get them out, clean it up, and show it vacant (unless it’s being marketed as investment property). Tenants almost always cause showing problems.
- NEVER let somebody move into your vacant house because they will “help with showings” or any other reason. You don’t need them –you only need a keybox. There are “home staging” companies that make a living furnishing houses to make them “show better”.
- The house will sell much faster if a seller reduces the price by whatever such a staging company would charge. Nobody buys an over-priced house no matter what furniture is in it. Builders furnish model homes when the home is also their office, but you won’t see them moving furniture in and out of their spec homes or inventory homes.
Once you sign all your necessary documents we typically contact you within 24 hours to confirm everything. We typically have your home listed within 48 hours depending on the tier you choose.
- A home inspection is meant to evaluate, at minimum, the structural and mechanical condition of a property. An inspector will spend on average 4 hours on a 2,500 square foot house, and will look at everything about the structure, including but not limited to plumbing, water heaters, HVAC, electrical, installed appliances, windows, doors, siding, roof, foundation, swimming pool and equipment, etc. As a buyer, your contract should include an option period during which time you can cancel the contract and get your earnest money back if the inspection report is unsatisfactory or if the seller is unwilling to correct defects the report uncovers. Cost: About $400 for an average size home.
- Normally a seller is not present for the inspection. If you are the seller and can’t leave the house, at least stay out of the inspectors way, and definitely don’t follow him around. Keep in mind that the buyer is paying the inspector, so he is not working for the seller. If you are the buyer, it is best to let the inspector do his job and meet him as he is finishing up so he can show you some of the items he found.
- Most inspectors have access to the home through Sentrilock boxes, and schedule the inspection either through showingtime or the listing agent.
- Other types of inspections that are not normally covered by a home inspection are:
Wood-destroying organism inspection report (WDI) – also referred to as a Termite report. This is typically done by a different inspector during the home inspection. Cost: About $75
Septic inspection when the property has a septic tank. - Foundation report – usually ordered after being recommended by the home inspector. This can be done by a foundation company or a structural engineer.
- We can list you in MLS the same day as long as we have the completed forms, description and photos by 11am on any business day.
- The process begins with the tier you choose. Your forms will be generated after you make your payment if you choose the non-full service tier. Your 6 month listing term begins on the date you put on the listing agreement (not the date you pay).
- We have your keybox delivered next day if we have your payment by 3pm.
- If you order professional photos, this is potentially the biggest delay. It can take a few days to set the appointment, and a few days after the photos are taken to actually have them ready to enter in MLS. If you want to get your listing up ASAP, we can get your listing entered with some temporary pictures you supply until we have the professional ones.