The Neighborhood Experts at Platinum Real Estate says now might be the best time to make the move

By Patricia Nugent

According to Business Leader News, “to be a disruptor is to create a product, service, or way of doing things which displaces the existing market leaders.”

Meet Denise and Mark Zervos—disruptors in the local real estate market since 1991.

As owners of Platinum Real Estate and Team Leaders of The Neighborhood Experts, they are adept at predicting and shifting course to meet the winds of change.

This month they are being proactive in shaking up the local market. While demand for housing continues to be strong, the supply of homes on the market is struggling to keep up.

“This is a trend that was present last year, and we see no signs of it stopping running through 2020,” says Denise. “We identified that finding the ideal home that matches a buyer’s wants and needs is the greatest challenge for our customers. This led our team to construct a program that brings interested sellers’ tremendous savings of time and potentially thousands of dollars; alleviating the greatest burdens facing real estate customers today.”

Shaking the Tree
“Our Dream Home Matchmaker program rewards potential home sellers who may be on the fence about whether or not they should put their home on the market with some inviting incentives,” says Denise. “Test the waters by letting a member of our Dream Team take a 20-minute walkthrough of your home.”

Benefits include:

• Sellers receive a discounted selling fee (saving thousands)
• Skip the hassle of going live on the open market, no stressful showings
• Get flexible move-out times
• Connect with serious buyers who specifically want to live in your neighborhood so your home might sell for a better price
• Receive a report within 24 hours with a suggested selling price and market evaluation. Let them do the research on how much your neighbors sold their homes for
• Receive a Visa gift card as a thank you

If interested, all you have to do is go to PlatinumMovesYou.com/dreamhome and fill out a few fields, such as name and address, how many bedrooms your home has etc. Indicate when you would like to receive a call back from a member of their team. The offer is good through Monday, August, 31, 2020.

“Success in real estate is all about making connections between buyers and sellers,” Denise explains. “This is our way of growing the number of connections. We are seeing demand for homes in every price range, and every type of neighborhood in Lake County.”

Finding Sellers to Match New Pool of Buyers
“I would say the Matchmaker program is like flipping the switch on the Dream Home Finder program we kicked off last month, where we connect the pool of potential buyers out there with unlisted homes that might potentially come on the market,” she says. “We’ve had great success with that and have many buyers in the pipeline ready to pull the trigger as soon as a home hits the market.”

Home Values Holding Steady
Though many feared the impact Covid would have on home values, the good news is existing home sales were performing strongly before the pandemic hit, and, Denise says, they have held steady.

The team at Platinum has continued showing and selling homes throughout the spring and summer.

Platinum Real Estate has 16 offices in Northeast Ohio and Columbus and nine in Florida. For a confidential appointment or to get more information, call 216-990-2100 or or 440-975-7171 and visit YourNeighborhoodExpert.com. To sign up for the Dream Home Finder program, visit PlatinumMovesYou.com/dreamhome.