There's a new study out that shows that 77% of homeowners believe now is a great time to sell their home.

And when you combine that with a recent study we talked about — which is that 1 in 10 homeowners is going to place their home on the market over the next 12 months. And 63% of those will do it in the next six months alone.

Question is:

What are you doing about it?

We know 80% of your business is going to come from a direct result of your sphere of influence. Either direct business or referred business. So we need to dive into that first and foremost.

I'm going to give you three ways to have impact at scale with these folks.

1. A weekly email into your database.

This doesn't cost you a dime, but it's one of the most powerful things you can do to stay top-of-mind.

But that email has to be value-orientated. It can't be garbage that people are going to look at it as spam. It has to be high value.

What's the highest...

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We know that 1 in 10 homeowners are considering selling this year. In fact, 63% of those folks are going to be selling in the next six months.

There's a massive surge of listings about to hit us. This is based on the survey that was done by realtor.com recently.

So the question is, what are you going to do about that? What are you gonna do to get ahead of this tsunami that's coming at us when it comes to listings?

Because if you don't get ahead of it, your competitors are going to take advantage of it.

I'm gonna give you four things you can do right now to get ahead of this curve so you can take advantage of all these sellers that are about ready to come to market.

1. Form your own neighborhood and sphere of influence.

If you're not constantly in communication with the people that live closest to you and/or your sphere of influence, you're losing opportunities.

What does that mean? It means that you're sending an email out once a...

What if there's one thing you could do that would have a massive impact on your business? And it was something that would feel like it wasn't work? It was almost rejection-proof. And it's something that you could do every single day. Would you like to know what it is?

The answer is networking. And what I mean by networking is going to coffee, dinner, drinks, lunch, breakfast, you name it. Whatever it is where you're meeting one-on-one with someone in your sphere of influence.

There's nothing more powerful than you can do for your business in terms of marketing than that.

Now it's not going to feel like you're doing anything — you're just having fun with somebody who you like to visit with. But by stretching yourself and meeting with more people in your sphere and getting outside your comfort zone, I can promise you the result of this will be referrals.

Now it's not instant gratification. It won't instantly happen. But when you...

We know there's a wave of listings about to crash on our shores. We know it through studies that have been done recently that show 1 to 10 homeowners are considering selling this year.

63% of those are going to be selling in the next six months.

There's a massive wave of listings about ready to hit. So what are you doing to get prepared for that?

Here are four things that you could do to make sure that when you get to this apex point, all the marketing that you've done, all the social media stuff you've done, all the letters, emails, calls, texts and networking meetings don't go to waste because you blow it at the apex point — you mess up your listing appointment.

You have to be a master in that moment when it's all on the line.

This comes through training and practice — no different than an athlete on a field. If they're trying to throw that football to the end zone, they have practice that maybe a hundred times....

What are the most expensive per square foot homes in America?

According to a recent study recently done by REALTOR.com San Jose Santa Clara had the most expensive per square foot averages across the country.

Drum roll — $1,500 a square foot, not far behind are San Francisco and Oakland with $1,200 a square foot.

Now what's the least expensive in the country? Least expensive is Decatur, Illinois at $102 and Youngstown, Ohio at $120 a square foot.

There's a big discrepancy between the two.

The reason I bring this up is because we need to know what our average per square foots are in our local market. And it's going to change by subdivision. It's going to change by micro markets. But overall, you need to know what your county averages are and then your subcategories in different market segments. That way you can speak to this as an expert.

The other thing you need to be able to do is bring these into a conversation with buyers and...

Affordability is on the tip of everybody's tongues right now.

Why is affordability so important?

Well, it's a measurement of how affordable it is for the average person in America to own a home.

NAR has studied this every single month and they gave us a Home Affordability Graph. And you might expect this, but home affordability has actually been going up because of something substantial, which is interest rates going down.

As interest rates go down, affordability goes up.

That's despite the fact that we've had actually super fast rising prices, right? Prices starting to go into double digit territory across the country. And then we see interest rates going down, which pushes affordability up.

But because home prices have gotten so high recently, that's actually starting to level off and come back down. But we recently had another upswing. So we're measuring a few things when we look at affordability.

When NAR looks at...

Something super exciting happened in the last month that we haven't seen in the last 15 years:

Home prices on existing homes exceeded home prices for new homes.

Think about what I just said:

Existing home prices exceeded new home construction. So it was actually cheaper to go buy a brand new house nobody had ever lived in than buying an existing home. Absolutely amazing.

Lots of reasons behind that. But one of the reasons is normally when you're buying new construction, you're locking in a price six months earlier. And then they complete the new construction and you move in.

Well, the market has super accelerated in those last 6 months. And guess what's also happened:

Now, if you were to try to pull that off, what's happened with all kinds of lumber, supplies, and even appliances?

Prices have gone up.

So this will probably not be repeated anytime soon because now prices on new construction are beginning to rise again.

But what...

We're all dealing with multiple offers on almost every single listing that we take. So how do you approach the presentation of these multiple offers to a seller?

That's a really key consideration because a confused mind says no. So how do you help sellers not get confused?

One of the ways is by helping them simplify the process of reviewing all these offers. I like to encourage my students to use a one-page summary form. The one-page summary form will have some very simple data on the front page. And you can make that the cover page on all the offers.

So what's on the summary form?

Here's what it is:

1. Price

2. Net offer

You want to put what the actual net to the seller is. As you know, sometimes in an offer, people will put some expenses that cost the seller some money. So you want to show the price of their offering, but also the net to the seller or net offer.

3. Show if it's a cash sale or a loan

If it's a loan, what kind of...

Join this incredible podcast featuring two of the most powerful thought leaders in real estate today Ricky Carruth and Juan Carols Barreneche. During this fast moving conversation we explore #1 Way to Grow Your Business and How to Stairstep Your Success to Achieve Phenomenal Results. This conversation dives deep into lead generation, client management, target marketing, email marketing, and how to tap the incredible pent up seller demand about to be unleashed on the market. We also talk about moving past mental roadblocks that can create self doubt and self sabotage. Both Ricky and Carlos are in the trenches working with buyers and sellers daily - so this is a no holds barred, real world conversation from two agents that are walking the walk and talking the talk. This is a can’t miss episode!