Top Wellen Park & Venice, Florida Real Estate Agent You'll Actually Like!

In Florida, you are not required to have a realtor. However, the majority of home buyers choose to use one. According to NAR, 88% of home buyers use a realtor to buy a house. While having a realtor represent you during a transaction is completely your choice, it is preferred by most buyers due the complex nature of transactions, understanding the contracts and acting as a fiduciary to the buyer to ensure their best interests are represented.

Plus, I (Josh Wilson) have successfully closed well over 100+ Wellen Park & Venice Florida real estate transactions in the last 3 years!

That’s valuable experience to have on your team when you are dealing with such a significant purchase in your life. 

All real estate agent compensation is negotiable. In Florida, it is common for sellers to agree to compensate the buyer’s agent in a transaction. If buyer agent compensation is not being offered, then we can negotiate it as a part of our offer on the property.

YES, you can use a Realtor to buy a new construction home in Wellen Park (or anywhere in the Vencice & Sarasota areas). 

Not only that, it is highly recommended that you use an experienced real estate agent because the sales staff at these communities work for the builder & their best interests (NOT YOURS!). So having your own realtor ensures that you have representation and an outside 3rd party looking out for YOUR best interests. 

Also, because I’ve helped so many families build homes in these communities I know all the sales staff well. They keep me updated on incentives & deals — and I know what to ask for and how much we can negotiate, so I can get my clients the best deals and even some freebies they would not have known to ask for!

(but I know what we can ask for…because I have other clients getting those freebies already!)

Plus, when it comes to new construction there are a LOT of things to pay attention to and lots of steps to the process (foundation, pre-drywall walks, punch lists, orientations, etc.).

So it is incredibly valuable to have an experienced agent like myself who specializes in new construction homes in Wellen Park. I’ve gone through the process countless times, and I know their teams (and even the construction managers)!

This is a common misconception, but no. I began my career in land development and used to work for developers building new home communities like these, so I can tell you how it really works from experience. 

Builders depend on real estate agents to help them sell their homes (they want agents to bring in their clients!). In fact, according to Wellen Park, 60-70% of home buyers in Wellen Park use an outside Realtor for new construction.

Builder construction budgets and marketing budgets are separate. And they factor buyer agent fees into their marketing budgets, not a part of the home cost.

So not having an agent won’t get you a discount because their target margins are the same.