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Bozeman Real Estate

Buying

Your Needs Come First

Finding and buying the right home is a highly personalized process, and it all begins by identifying your needs.

Your values, interests, and priorities
The features you are looking for in a home.
How a community can best match your needs and lifestyle

Defining Your Ideal HōM(e)

Whether you’re buying a home for the first time or are a repeat buyer, it’s essential to understand your “why” before you start the process to buy. The more you understand your “why,” the easier it will be to find your perfect home.

Key Purchase Factors:

Are you working from home or commuting?

Are you buying for just you, or do you have family members' needs to consider?

Are you purchasing for today, or for future you?

A great resource to help you discern what you need today is to consider what has and hasn't worked in your past properties:

What are one or more features you liked most about homes you’ve lived in before?
What do you think you didn't quite get right in your current or previous property?

Working with HōM 406

The rules, when it comes to buying real estate, have changed.

With the 2024 NAR ruling, no longer can agents open a door for you, as a buyer's agent, without an agency agreement in hand.

What does that mean?

We need to have a plan in place with you before you view a home, outlining how we, as buyer representatives, will be compensated. While this has not fundamentally changed how we transact at HōM 406, this shift has created numerous questions for buyers.

Understanding Buyer Agent Compensation

In many cases, the Seller still pays for us to represent you, as a buyer.

However, it is possible the home may not be listed, or the Seller (or Seller's Agent) isn't offering Buyer Agent compensation, or they aren't offering the same amount we have agreed upon to advocate for you.

These moving pieces don't mean you necessarily need to come up with the cash to compensate us. Based on what is best for your negotiation, we can write our compensation into your purchase contract, with your permission, or we can negotiate our compensation independently with you and leave it out of the purchase contract.

If you are obtaining financing, the loan can include our compensation via the Buyer Compensation Agreement you'll sign before you view your first house. Don't fret, these changes do not change how you buy a home, or the end-of-day cost, just the minutiae of how. As always, how we are compensated does not affect the properties we elect to show you.