The Move Once Method
Sell One Home, Buy the Next, and Move Once.
$107M in sales across 116 homes. 5.0 stars on Google and Zillow.
Selling one home and buying another usually runs as two separate deals: two timelines, two sets of showings, and a gap in the middle where you either carry two homes or have nowhere to live. And the problems that cost the most rarely show on a tour: permit gaps in a house, a street that changes after dark, an HOA with thin reserves.
The Move Once Method is how we run it instead. Four steps, one plan.
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Lifestyle Match
We start with how you want to live, not with listings. Walk to dinner? Ten minutes to the airport? Room for guests, a dog, a view of the bay? We match that to the two or three neighborhoods and homes that actually fit, house or condo, and we tell you which popular ones don't.
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Home Intelligence
Before you tour, you get a short report on each home. For a house: the property, permit history, disclosures and how the street lives day and night. For a condo or townhome: HOA dues and what they cover, reserve strength, special assessments and lawsuits, rental and pet rules, parking, and any view that could be built out. We show you the weak spots too, including on our own listings. Knowing a neighborhood isn't the same as knowing a specific home, and the report is how you check our work.
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Sell Smart
Your current home gets a pricing plan built from real data, not a website estimate. Then a full launch: Compass Concierge prep for staging and repairs, professional photo, video and drone, a private pre-market phase, and targeted ads to likely buyers. When speed and certainty matter most, a non-distressed luxury auction is another path.
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One Move Close
We sequence both deals with the tools that fit your situation, such as contingencies, a rent-back or bridge financing, so the sale and the purchase close as one plan. Lindsey negotiates your sale and your purchase. You move once, on your schedule.
What You Get for Our Fee
What you get for our fee is the homework most people try to do alone: the research on every home, the pricing plan and the timing of two closings. We'll walk through our fee in plain numbers at our first meeting.
Ready When You Are
Not ready to move yet? That's fine. A first conversation is how you find out what your home would sell for and which homes deserve a look. There's no commitment.
Selling with no purchase, or buying with nothing to sell? The same steps apply, minus the ones you don't need.