While still having a full service agent helping you:

• Eliminate homes that are clearly not for you
• View the homes that fit your wants and needs
• Negotiate your purchase of the perfect Panama home
• Avoid all the home-buying landmines
• Solve all the problems that arise on the way to closing

 

Dear Future Homeowner,

 

Home buying in Panama has never been more beneficial to you as a buyer, because Flat Fee Realty is leading the way into a new era in Panama real estate practice.

 

We're shaking up the industry and debunking the myths about how - and how much - real estate agents should be paid.

 

Buyers have been paying too much for houses - because sellers are paying too much in commissions to real estate agents. The pay - compared to the actual work - is simply outrageous!

 

When you stop to think about it, you'll realize that buyers are really the ones paying the commission. Yes, it comes out of the seller's funds at closing - but it was added to the price of the home.

 

 

Have buyers always paid too much? No. When prices were lower and agents had to invest more time and money into every home sale, it was a fair price for services rendered. It's only too much now because things have changed.

 

Here's today's difference: First, the Internet has changed the way real estate agents do business. It has brought time-saving advances on both the seller's side and the buyer's side of every transaction.

 

Agents no longer have to spend weeks doing research before taking a listing - and we no longer have to spend more weeks driving buyers around for a peek inside dozens and dozens of homes.

 

Instead, we find most of the listing information we need on the internet. And then, because agents post detailed information and abundant photographs of every listing, buyers can "see" the homes before they ever get in the car.

 

That allows buyers to eliminate the homes that won't work, and focus on the ones that are good possibilities.

 

The internet has slashed hours of work from the entire transaction - and has slashed dollars of expense for agents who used to have to drive buyers around for days and days before finding the house they want. It has also slashed advertising expenses for agents who no longer need to consistently run full-page ads in print media.

 

Just think - you as a buyer may be considering property on the beaches of Panama and mountain real estate in the Republic of Panama - and you may want to know more about Panama City Condos.

 

You may already reside in Panama, and know just the location you want. On the other hand, you may be coming here to retire. (We have become a "hot spot" offering retirement living for Americans in Panama - as well as for retirees from other parts of the world.)

 

Part of the beauty of retirement in Panama is the variety. You have numerous choices of location and lifestyle - and it's natural that you should want to know and see a lot before making a choice.

 

But before the internet simplified searching, a buyer's agent had to spend days driving to all those locations just to help his buyer eliminate homes that clearly wouldn't work.

 

So the internet has reduced both time and expense for agents - here in Panama and around the world.

 

Second: Prices are higher. 5% of a $400,000 home nets an agent twice as much as 5% of a $200,000 home - without adding significantly to the work required. (Did you do the math? The difference is a whopping $10,000!)

 

Does it make sense to you that agents should still charge 5% - and in so doing, earn thousands of dollars per hour of work - while adding those thousands to your home mortgage?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instead, we charge a low flat fee that allows our sellers to list at a price more beneficial to our buyers. Most of them are willing to share the savings in exchange for greater buyer interest and a faster closing.

 

 

 

 

 

That means that Panama real estate buyers who work with Flat Fee Realty have a better choice - a choice that puts money back in their own pockets.

 

My buyer services plan is outlined on the next page. There you'll see how I go about finding you the perfect Panama home. Just click here.

 

Call me today or send me an email to discuss how I can help you find the home of your dreams, AND put money back in your pocket!