Orchard.com real estate provides homeowners with an efficient solution for selling and purchasing new homes without waiting for the existing home to sell first. Their service provides temporary housing while you await the sale of your existing one, while saving homebuyers thousands in sales commissions and fees.
Orchard offers a complimentary consultation where home advisors will assess your needs and walk you through the process of selling or renting out your property. They’ll help you decide whether Orchard or traditional agents would be more appropriate, and recommend the most beneficial course of action. They will also provide you with a market value estimate and advise on the most efficient strategy to sell your home, such as staging and prep packages that include painting and carpet cleaning, professional photos taken for listing purposes, creating 3D virtual tours for listings as well as taking professional photos for them, arrange professional photography shoots as part of the listing, take professional photos taken for each showing appointment as well as acting as transaction support – including showings with prospective buyers, handling paperwork for closings/notarization services online/mobile notaries services are also provided!
Orchard offers the Buy Before You Sell program, which enables you to utilize equity from your current home to put towards the down payment on a new one. The process starts with an evaluation by one of Orchard’s home advisors who will evaluate your property to determine how much equity there is within. Up to 90% of this equity amount may then be accessed as “instant equity.”
Once you receive the proceeds from selling your previous home, Orchard will market and sell it, returning your equity advance as well as costs and mortgage payments related to that property – typically within four months!
Orchard Real Estate will match you with an experienced local agent and give you access to all the same resources available with other realtors: marketing, pricing & market trends, transaction support, mortgage & title–each designed to get the maximum return from your home sale. It will also negotiate terms for your new mortgage through one of its preferred lender partners or an institution of your choosing.
Orchard Real Estate charges a service fee when buying and selling homes, typically about 2% of the sale price of your home – this is similar to the fee charged by other real estate agents; however, the fee can be waived by using Orchard Mortgage Lending service instead. Orchard maintains an A+ rating with Better Business Bureau while boasting an average four out of five star review score on review sites such as Trustpilot; negative reviews focus mostly around communication problems as well as being matched with inexperienced agents.