Thank you to Ivan of Coldwell Banker Venture Realty for selling my University friend her first home on Hooke Road. This has resulted in hours of jokes about her being a Pirate.
When my long-time friend Andrea moved to Edmonton, my Wife and I quickly recommended Ivan. Ivan was helping us through our own home shopping experience.
Personally, I had been through a handful of home purchases and sales through some good and some not so good real estate agents, so I quickly recognized Ivan not only as a professional, but someone I was confident recommending.
Thanks to Ivan, my friend Andrea to become a first-time home owner. While shopping for a new home can be intimidating, and closing can be stressful, Ivan took great care to help Andrea find the right place, and even make it fun! Ivan even convinced the seller to take reject an offer they had already accepted. Andrea easily moved in early this year.
Shortly after my wife and I found our perfect home. Ivan truly made the shopping fun and enjoyable, but when the negotiations came around is when the gloved came off. Ivan negotiated a significant price drop on our dream home. It was clear pretty quick that Ivan was setting the terms. We easily hit our target purchase price conditional on sale of our existing home.
That’s when disaster struck…. Or so we thought. We ended up listing with Ivan during a record high number of listings in the region. A buyers’ market. We nervously watched many stale listings go unsold in our neighborhood, even the same floor plan on the same street.
Ivan carefully researched the market and came up with pricing strategy. We listed competitively and waited. Ivan aggressively marketed the house and chased leads. Where some houses on my street were listed for over a year, Ivan found a buyer in weeks and he negotiated a price higher than our target without conditions.
Ivan will take care of you. If you look around you may find an agent as good, but certainly not better than Ivan.