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When it comes time to sell your home,  we at Signature Properties Group understand that your home is one of your most important financial assets. 

As such, we take great pride in being able to offer you not only customized marketing services to help sell your home  but also personalized services to help you through the entire process. 

Selling your home is not one simple act.  It is a series of events leading up to the final transaction.  It can take a few days...it can take several months.  During that time, you need someone on your side who is knowledgeable, compassionate and dedicated and always looking out for your best interest. 

The main drive behind our determination to build our company's excellent reputation and brand ourselves as the leader in our marketplace is for the purpose of ensuring that the properties which we list and the clients whom we represent have the strongest possible position in the competitive real estate market here in the Golden Isles. 

We want our homeowners to feel confident that when we place a Signature Properties Group sign in your front yard that everyone will know that selling your home is important enough to hire the best REALTOR® you can with the full strength and support of a truly first-class company. 

As a company of full-time REALTORS®, we are always at your service, ready to work with you and provide you with the best service possible.  We work with Buyers and Sellers every day and have an arsenal of information and experience that can help take the stress, pressure and potential headaches out of selling your home. 

Remember, your satisfaction is always our top priority.


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We are experts in diversified, customized marketing to get your property the maximum exposure in the appropriate markets and demographics.  Collectively, we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year advertising our listed properties in local, regional and national publications and media outlets that reach millions of potential buyers every day.

As members of the Brunswick-Glynn Board of  REALTORS® ,  we also recruit the services of the 500+ REALTOR® members of our Board to help find buyers for your property. This is why it's so important for us to always work ethically, intelligently and maintain our professional reputation among not just our clients and customers, but our peers in this industry.  

We all work in an environment of cooperation and believe that our reputation among our peers can greatly affect how any property we represent is regarded by them and their clients.

If you have questions regarding any of the information offered here, please contact any of our Agents or e-mail our office! 

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 Home Selling Articles & Advice


 Getting Your House Ready to Sell

  • Introduction: Emotion vs. Reason
  • De-Personalizing the House
  • Removing Clutter, Though You May Not Think of it as Clutter
  • Fixing Up the House Interior
  • Fixing up Outside the House

  • Want to Start Off With a High Sales Price?  Beware!

  • Meeting with Realtors
  • Which Realtor Do You Choose?
  • What Happens Behind the Scenes
  • Dropping Your Price...Too Late?

  • Types of Listing Contracts

  • Open Listings
  • One-Time Show
  • Exclusive Agency Listings
  • Exclusive Right to Sell

  • Details of a Listing Contract

  • Price and Terms of Sale
  • Lockbox - Yes or No?
  • Real Estate Commission
  • Multiple Listing Service
  • Agency Duties of a Listing Agent
  • Resolution of Disputes

  • Listing Commissions and Related Issues

  • How Commission Really Works*
  • How and When the Commission is Earned
  • "Hot" Market Under-Pricing Strategy - Commission Issues

  • The Listing Agent & Marketing Your Home

  • The "Real" Role of a Listing Agent
  • Preliminary Marketing - the "For Sale" Sign
  • Preliminary Marketing - Flyers and the Brochure Box

  • The Listing Agent - Marketing Your House to Other Agents

  • The Multiple Listing Service
  • Office Preview
  • Broker Previews and Culinary Delights
  • Office Flyers
  • Marketing Sessions

  • The Listing Agent - Marketing Your House to Homebuyers

  • The Purpose of Advertising in General
  • Real Estate Company Advertising
  • Individual Agent Advertising
  • Neighborhood Announcements
  • Open Houses

  • Showing Your House to Home Buyers

  • Convenience and Availability
  • Why You Should Not Be Home
  • Lighting, Fragrances, Pet Control and More
  • Keeping the House Tidy and Neat

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