Exclusive Buyer Representation

What is Exclusive Buyer Representation?

A real estate buyer's representative legally represents you the buyer in a real estate transaction solely as your agent. With this relationship your agent exclusively represents and owes fiduciary responsibility to you. This puts your best interests as the top priority throughout the process. This service is FREE of charge to you the buyer as the seller generally pays us as a cost of doing business.

Why use a Buyer's Agent?

Expertise - Our agents' knowledge of various properties, neighborhoods, pricing and trends can help you find the right home quicker, provide information to assist your evaluation of the options, and help you develop a strategy for negotiating a good deal. In most cases, the seller will have an agent or attorney looking out for the seller's best interest. In Illinois, the buyer's agent is legally responsible for protecting the buyer's best interests.

Efficiency - Buying real estate is a complicated process with many details to be covered and third party services to be coordinated. Our experienced agents are a resource for vendors and other professionals you will need to complete the transaction and have reliable systems for coordinating the steps necessary to reach a closing so you'll know when thins need to happen and what to do.

Economy - Your time is valuable. Being able to rely on your Buyer's Agent to do research and preview listings, bring in third party resources as needed, and keep you abreast of what needs to be completed throughout the purchasing process, allows you the freedom to keep up on the other priorities in your life like family, work and play.

And let's not forget the economy of your expenses as well. Sellers and developers already have money budgeted for paying a real estate agent's commission when they put a price on the property. So why not take advantage of the Buyer's Agent services that are FREE to you and may help you to negotiate a better sales contract.

As your exclusive buyer's agent, our services include:

Evaluation of your specific needs and wants.
Research to identify suitable properties.
Assistance in determining the amount you can afford (pre-qualification).
Preview properties on your behalf to insure that they match your specifications.
Research selected properties to check for potential problems or issues to help you make an informed decision prior to making an offer to purchase the property.
Provide advice on structuring an offer to achieve your desired contract terms
Present the offer to the seller's agent and the seller on your behalf.
Negotiate contract terms on your behalf - keeping you best interests in mind.
Assist in exploring options and securing financing for the selected property.
Provide a list of potential qualified vendors (e.g. inspectors, attorneys, movers, carpenters, etc.) if these services are needed.
Most importantly, fully-represent the buyer throughout the real estate transaction.

How can we get started?

By registering, you will automatically become a buyer with Urban Domain as your designated agent. We will create a custom web page for you that shows available properties on the Chicago area Multiple Listing Service that match your exact buying requirements. When properties that match your criteria are new, have a price change or are being relisted on the MLS, you will be conveniently notified via e-mail. This is a FREE SERVICE with NO OBLIGATION to buy.