How Can a Buyer's Agent Help Me Buy a Home?


A buyer's agent works to protect your best interests by providing complete and professional guidance.

To buy property, you need to:

  • Locate and evaluate properties in your price range
  • Exercise a level of diligence on the proposed purchase
  • Determine an offering price
  • Document the contingencies you will need
  • Develop a negotiating strategy based on the competition
  • You will then prepare an offer to purchase contract and enter into negotiations

Going through this process with the help of a buyer's agent will enable you to purchase the property at the lowest possible price and on terms that meet your specific needs.

Once you have the home under contract, you'll need an agent to:

  • Recommend inspectors, attorneys, lenders, trades people, etc. 
  • Walk through the property with the eye of a professional
  • Provide options and guidance through the problems that often arise


What Are Some Benefits of Using a Buyer's Agent?


When a relationship is created between the purchaser and the real estate agent, the agent must work in the buyer client's best interest at all times, thereby providing purchasers with the same level of representation traditionally given only to the seller. Here are just a few of the benefits you will receive from having your own personal representative when seeking to purchase property:
  1. Confidentiality: The agent you hire to represent you will not disclose confidential information regarding motivation, price and terms, or anything else of a personal nature to the seller or seller's agent without your permission to do so.
  2. Loyalty: The buyer's agent must work in the buyer's best interest at all times, even if it is not in the agent's personal best interest to do so. This means that the agent will always put your interests first, above their own.
  3. Full disclosure: The agent you hire to represent you will fully disclose any information gained from the seller or the seller's agent that could be used by you in the transaction. In addition, the buyer's agent will undertake a level of diligence and discovery that will give you the necessary information to make an informed decision as to the property you wish to purchase.
  4. Search all properties: The buyer's agent will search for all available properties, including for sale by owner, new construction, and others and will not limit their showings to properties they have listed. A listing agent's job is to move the inventory of their seller clients. A buyer's agent's job is to locate satisfactory properties for their client. Any limitations on this search will be documented in the buyer agency agreement.
  5. Analyze properties: As the buyer's agent goes through the properties with you, they will assist you with analyzing the properties and determining their strengths and weaknesses, allowing you to make informed comparisons and helping you to determine whether or not the property would suit your particular needs.
  6. Market analysis: The agent you hire to represent you in the transaction will do a market analysis on the chosen property and provide you with an offering range for that particular property. They will then set a negotiating strategy for you to assist you in acquiring the property at the lowest price and best terms possible for your situation.
  7. Write the offer/contract: The buyer's agent will complete an offer to purchase that is "buyer friendly" and contains the contingencies and protective clauses you need.  In Vermont, the offer becomes the contract when accepted and signed by the seller, so it is critical to have all the protection you need written in to your original offer to purchase.

These are just a few of the benefits received from having your own personal buyer's agent when purchasing. Considering that the majority of buyer agents are paid through the transaction or by the seller's agent, doesn't it just make good sense that you have the representation you deserve?


Vermont Real Estate Buyers Agency   -   Hinesburg, VT   -   (802) 363-0273

trey@vtbuyersagency.com