Meet and create your wishlist

Let’s get to know each other! Once you’re ready to work with our team, we’ll meet together for a Buyer Consultation to discuss our local market, focus your search, and determine what you want and need in a waterfront home.

Lender Preapproval

When buying a high-end home, owners will want to know beforehand that you can afford the house and will often request that their home only is shown to qualified prospects. Getting a preapproval ensures sellers that you are a strong buyer, whether it is an all-cash deal or you choose to finance. We’ll introduce you to our mortgage partners, who can help determine your price range with confidence. Preapproval is a vital step in the home buying process and shows sellers you are a well-qualified buyer, regardless of how you pay.

Listing alerts sent to you based on your criteria

What are you looking for in a waterfront home? Our agents will get to know your wants and needs — Relocating buyer? Vacation home buyer? Want easy ocean access? Need to upgrade or downsize? At this stage in the process, we’ll send you notifications about waterfront listings that are most likely to excite you. Be sure to let us know if one (or more) jumps out at you so that we can skip to the next step and schedule a viewing. We will be there for you every step of the way.

Schedule viewings and attend open houses

Here’s where the buying process gets fun! We’ll go to local open houses together and schedule viewings of the homes that you’ve loved from our listing alerts. We’ll talk about how the budget will work and make sure that we find you the perfect home.

Find the perfect home and write an offer

When you’re ready to make an offer, we will present it in writing to the seller. And while everyone loves getting their offer accepted right away, the seller could come back to us with a counter offer, or reject your initial offer altogether. We’re happy to walk you through each of these possibilities and exactly how to handle them. Once the offer is accepted, it’s time to get your financing in order and move forward to the next step!

Acceptance, appraisal, and inspection

The sellers accepted your offer, and the home is going through appraisal and inspection. The appraisal guarantees that the price of the property matches the condition of the property while the inspection makes sure that everything in the home is functioning properly and there are no major issues inside. These are the last steps before the shiny keys to your home are placed in your hand... for good!

Time to close and get the keys

Get excited because it’s time to close on your home! This process includes a final "walk-through" inspection then going through all of the final paperwork and signing your name (a lot!). Don't forget to bring all of the paperwork you’ve collected along the way and to wire your down payment to the closing agent.

Celebrate! 🥂