Go For Gold Listing Solutions for Commercial Real Estate

In commercial real estate brokerage, it pays to go beyond solutions when it comes to working with clients and prospects.  Show them quite clearly that you can provide a specific strategy and process to fast track their commercial or retail property challenge.  Give them the process to move ahead.

In giving them the process and the action plan, this will usually be done in some form of listing presentation, sales pitch or property proposal.  Whilst ultimately the client may wish to sell or lease their property, you need to show them the exact stages and the strategies in what can be a very complex situation.  You can do this through a Gantt chart process.

So a Gantt chart can be placed in your property proposal to show the client the road ahead and your particular recommendations. 

A standard lease or sale situation can be broken down into 15 to 20 specific stages.  It is simply a matter of listing those stages on a Gantt chart in successive order.  You can then apply a time frame to the process.

When the client reviews the proposal or the sales presentation, most of your discussion and recommendations can be formulated around the Gantt chart.  You can talk to the process effectively and directly.  The client can then see exactly what you are going to do as part of moving the property requirement ahead.  Make it easy for the client to see through the complexity of finding a tenant or a buyer as the case may be.

In establishing this process for use within your brokerage, look at the typical sale or lease situation.  As an example, I will provide you with a sales pattern.

As a general rule, the listing of a property for sale will involve the following stages:

1. Property inspection and information gathering
2. Reviewing the competing properties in the local area
3. Understanding the history of previous sales
4. Identifying the concerns of the client
5. Establishing a target market
6. Making recommendations to the client regards the property listing process
7. Creating a marketing campaign for the approval of the client including all of the required advertising layouts, marketing funds, and campaign timing
8. Seeking the approval of the client to the marketing campaign
9. Implementing the marketing efforts
10. Tracking the inbound enquiries from each level of marketing
11. Directly contacting a short list of qualified buyers within your database
12. Creating inspections with qualified parties
13. Short listing buyers for negotiation
14. Negotiating on the deal
15. Documenting the contract and getting the required signatures
16. Satisfaction of the terms and conditions of the contract including due diligence
17. Moving the property to settlement

So there are plenty of things here to do.  Each of these stages will have specific things to focus on.  The stages can be formulated into a Gantt chart related to the agency timeframe.  The process helps greatly when it comes to converting exclusive listings.  It helps the clients see exactly what you are going to do as the broker and how important that will be to achieving a positive outcome.  Your property solutions become more real and meaningful for the client and their situation today.

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