One of the best ways to make the homebuying process flow easier is to become better-acquainted with your options and clearly define your goals. Understanding the reasons you want to buy and what you want to accomplish in your move will go a long way towards shaping your plans and improving your results.w

Perhaps the most important first step involves deciding how you will approach your home search. Who will you work with throughout this process—and how will you work with them?

Buying a home is no small matter. Besides being the largest financial transaction you may ever undertake, it’s probably also the most complex. There are many good reasons to work with a qualified real estate professional. The Park City Homes real estate team, Jake, Cindy, and Charlie, would like to be your real estate professionals and establish a formal agency relationship—someone who represents your best interests in a real estate transaction and owes you fiduciary responsibilities. Agency relationships require:

1. Pay full attention to your needs.
2. Tell you all that we know about the seller.
3. Keep information about you confidential.
4. Focus on choices that satisfy your needs.
5. Provide material facts as well as professional advice.
6. Provide price counseling based on comparable properties and our professional insights.
7. Protect and guide you.
8. Negotiate on your behalf.
9. Attempt to solve problems to your advantage and satisfaction.
10. Make your home buying experience as enjoyable and stress-free as possible.

1. Convenience and Quaility – Park City is one of the few mountain towns in the world that is so easy to travel to with an international airport only 25 minutes away. Park City Mountain Resort and Deer Valley are consistently ranked among the top ski resorts in the country. There are three ski resorts within minutes and eight more within forty-five minutes' drive. There are many other outstanding resorts within a 5 hour drive of Park City. See this Denver vs. Salt Lake video.
2. Low interest rates – if you desire financing, rates remain extremely low relative to historic levels.  Most feel that rates will rise soon, so now is the time to buy.
3. Wide Selection of Property.  Currently, Buyers are able to view a wide array of property across different market segments.
4. Sellers motivated to negotiate.  For the most part in Park City (unless the property is priced extremely well), Buyers do not have to compete against other Buyers for the same property. There are few multiple offer situations.
5. Great opportunities on New homes/ New projects.  There is quite a bit of new inventory languishing on the market.  Buyers are in a great position to pick up a brand new property from a developer at a great price.  The developer may also be providing some extras at no charge.  Also, many developers are now pricing at their “bottom” in order to move the inventory.
6. Sellers are making inspection repairs.  In order to get a deal closed, Buyers have some leverage to get Sellers to make repairs prior to closing.
7. Volume of Realtors has decreased.  Many part time Realtors did not make it through the current recession.  This has left you with a selection of the best, most resilient real estate professionals.
8. Updated MLS System.  The Park City Multiple Listing Service was upgraded recently.  Agents are able to provide you valuable and frequent updates on properties that match your criteria.