Thinking about selling
The price you list at is not the number that matters.
What matters is what lands in your account after the mortgage is paid off, the transfer tax is taken, your attorney is paid, and the commission comes out. Most sellers never see that figure until they are already committed.
I would rather show it to you at the start. If the arithmetic does not work for you this year, you should know that before a sign goes in the lawn, not after three months of showings.
Before the sign goes up
Priced to sell, not to flatter
Some agents win the listing by agreeing with whatever number you hoped for. That listing sits, drops twice, and closes below where it should have started. I will tell you what your house will actually bring and show you the comparable sales behind it.
The first ten days
Marketed before it goes live
Photography, floor plan, and a buyer list matched to your price range and your street, all ready before the listing is public. Those first ten days carry most of the attention a house will ever get, and a listing that wastes them rarely gets that attention back.
Through to closing
One person accountable
You are not handed to a team member after signing. You get an update the same day every week whether or not there is news, which turns out to be the thing sellers say they miss most.
The closing record
Nine sales, and where each one landed against its asking price.
The line under every sale shows the same thing: the tick in the middle is what the house was asking, and the bar is where it closed. Four of these fell short. They are here too.
Addresses, closing prices, days on market and the percentage against asking all come from the public sale record on Margie's Homes.com profile, covering the last five years. The photographs are Margie's own listing photography, used with her permission and her brokerage's. Any slide marked Representative image is the exception: that sale's photo set has not been recovered yet, so the picture there is a stand-in rather than the house.
All nine, at a glance
The same record as a list, if you would rather just read it.
PropertyClosedAgainst askingDays
Sorted by closing price. A negative figure means the house sold under what it was asking, which happens to every agent and is worth seeing before you hire one.
On the market now
Currently listed
44 Perry Avenue
Bayville, NY 11709
$599,000
A cottage a few streets from Crescent Beach Club, in the Locust Valley school district, with low taxes and a legal income-producing rental. It suits a first buyer, someone downsizing, or a builder.
3 bed
2 bath
811 sq ft
Locust Valley schools
Free, no obligation
What would you actually walk away with?
Every home value tool guesses at a list price. This one shows the number underneath it: your proceeds after the payoff, the New York transfer tax, attorney fees, and commission, calculated for Nassau and Suffolk rather than a national average.
It takes about ninety seconds and it does not put you on a call list. If the number surprises you, we can talk. If it does not, you have lost ninety seconds.
What I specialize in
Three kinds of seller, and they need different things.
New construction
I have sold new construction on the North Shore since before the current wave of teardowns, and I was the number one selling agent in The Groves. Builders need absorption, pre-construction marketing, and someone who can sell a house that is still framing. That is a different job from listing a resale and I treat it as one.
Investment property and flips
Investors do not need hand holding, they need speed and a straight answer on what the finished product will bring. I work on the numbers, tell you when a project is priced wrong before you are in it, and move quickly when it is ready.
Homes lived in for decades
The hardest sales are the ones where a family has been in the house thirty years. What to fix, what to leave, what the contents are worth, and how to do it without the whole thing becoming overwhelming. This part takes patience and I do not rush it.
Portrait of Margie
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About
Nineteen years, and every one of them on this stretch of Long Island.
I earned a multi-million dollar producer award in my first year in the business and I have earned one every year since. I have outsold the competition in Syosset and the neighborhoods around it, and I broke records marketing and selling new construction, which is how I became the number one selling agent in The Groves.
What I am actually known for is marketing. Not the word, the practice: getting a house in front of the right buyers before it is public, pricing it so the first ten days do the work, and being straight with a seller about what their house will bring. It is why five of my last nine listings closed above what they were asking.
If you are thinking about selling, or you just want to know what your house is worth this year, call me. There is no version of that conversation where you end up owing me anything.
- 19 yearsLicensed and selling on the North Shore, working out of Syosset
- $38MIn sales in the last year, across new construction, resale and investment property
- Every yearMulti-million dollar producer award, from her first year in the business onward
- 2017Number one selling agent in The Groves, the Syosset new-construction community
- $1.5MLargest recent closing, on 22 Lincoln Avenue in Glen Head, seven percent over asking in sixteen days
- 9 daysFastest recent closing, on 2631 Irene Lane in Seaford, six percent over asking
- HofstraHofstra University
The first four come from Margie's own agent profile and are hers to confirm. The two closings and the school come from the public record.
Where I work
Syosset and the surrounding North Shore.
I know these streets and what has actually closed on them, which is a different thing from knowing the county average.
- Syosset
- Jericho
- Woodbury
- Plainview
- Glen Head
- Glen Cove
- Albertson
- Muttontown
- Old Westbury
- Roslyn
- Williston Park
- Port Washington
- Manhasset
- Oyster Bay
- Locust Valley
- Bayville
- Huntington
- Cold Spring Harbor
Highlighted towns are ones with a closing in the record above.
From sellers I have worked with
What clients say.
Client testimonial goes here. Pull the three strongest from Margie's existing reviews.
Name, townClient testimonial goes here. Prefer ones that mention pricing accuracy or the offer coming in over ask.
Name, townClient testimonial goes here. One from a builder or an investor would balance the set.
Name, townNothing here yet. There are no public reviews to pull from anywhere, so these three have to come from Margie directly. Ask her for ones that name a first name and a town; an anonymous quote reads like it was written in-house.
Get in touch
Find out what your home is worth.
Tell me the address and I will send you a real market analysis for your street, along with the net sheet showing what you would walk away with. No cost, and no obligation to list.
- Phone
- (516) 586-0245From the public record. Confirm before publishing.
- Margie's email address
- Office
- Brokerage name and office addressTwo brokerages are on file for Margie. See the note below.
- License
- NY 40HO1125819
Her Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Laffey profile lists her in Williston Park, while the public sale record puts her at Americana Realty Group in Syosset. One of the two is out of date and only Margie can say which.