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“Here at Atlantic Sotheby’s International Realty, we proudly and artfully unite extraordinary homes with extraordinary lives. You will always get multi-million dollar marketing at every price point.” -Kris Weaver
A Strong Company Kris Weaver’s real estate career began in 1997 in Virginia. Through hard work, determination and a steadfast commitment to his clients, he earned his company’s distinguished Rookie of the Year Award. As his career progressed, he worked with numerous top agents from coast to coast. With the information culled from these mentors, Kris amalgamated the best strategies and crafted the Kris Weaver Real Estate Team in 2007. The Kris Weaver Real Estate Team started as a boutique four person office in Virginia Beach,Virginia. Just a few short years later, it has become a large, independently owned, full service real estate brokerage. In 2015, the Kris Weaver Real Estate Team won the coveted #1 Mega Team Award from the Hampton Roads Realtors Association while the Wall Street Journal named them the 36th top team out of over 45,000 teams nationwide. In 2016, the Kris Weaver Real Estate Team was honored to become the Southeastern Virginia and Northeast North Carolina affiliate of the number one luxury real estate brand in the world - Sotheby’s International Realty. Established in 1976, Sotheby’s International Realty was created to provide independent brokerages with the most powerful marketing and referral program for fine homes. The Sotheby’s International Realty network was designed to connect the finest properties to the most prestigious clientele in the world. Through this affiliation, Atlantic Sotheby’s International Realty was established. We are now able to provide our clients with an exceptional level of service and worldwide exposure. Our goal is to not only sell your home, but to celebrate it and the lifestyle that goes with it.
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The perfect buyer of a home might be in another country or just one neighborhood over. Only the Kris Weaver Real Estate Team can provide access to all of the available buyers worldwide. Our entire marketing program is built around exposure: through our own sales force of Kris Weaver Team agents; through the most extensive in-house marketing department with full capabilities from e-marketing to graphic design; and through an exhaustive catalog of mass media, online and grass-roots initiatives custom-tailored to each individual listing. Our fully integrated approach exclusively showcases not just your home but also the lifestyle that goes with it before the largest possible global audience of qualified buyers.
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What We Offer Our greatest strength is our a足 bility to sell your home for the best possible price in the shortest amount of time. To achieve this goal, we listen to our clients, study the market closely and work harder than any other real estate company. We are practiced c足 ommunicators, skilled negotiators and 足consistent closers. Finally, we are perfectionists. We place great i足mportance on delivering the same high level of service at every stage of the transaction, from showing through closing, and beyond. It gives our clients great comfort to know that the Kris Weaver Real Estate Team is a company of accomplished real estate professionals.
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“The Kris Weaver Real Estate Team was instrumental in selling our home. Our agent provided realistic price analysis and rock solid advice when offers started to come in. As we live out of state, Client Care personally took care of numerous, potentially disastrous situations. If you are looking for a Real Estate company who genuinely cares, Kris Weaver and his team are it. �
- David Ruth, Sold 100% of list price
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Our Te a m Mo d el Our Team Model We offer an entire team of professionals who work together for you — as opposed to one agent haphazardly doing all the tasks necessary to sell your home. Buyers Agent - A live agent who is very familiar with your property will answer and respond to all inquiries on your property between 9am and 9pm immediately. Every inbound property inquiry is followed up with and tracked in our proprietary database ensuring nothing is missed and every opportunity is utilized to show and sell your home. Transaction Coordinator - Our administrative staff assists your agent with keeping you informed of all events as they relate to the sales contract of your home. A transaction coordinator guarantees that you are always in the know and that crucial contract deadlines and details are never missed. They not only ensure for a smooth closing and settlement, but also that you are legally protected. Marketing - Our team boasts the largest marketing department of any real estate team or company in our area. Our marketing team takes command of all of the available tools used to sell homes creating more buyer traffic for your home resulting in a faster sale at a higher price. Photography/Video - With the largest in-house professional real estate photography and video team in our marketplace, we market homes like no other. Extreme attention to both detail and property features means our listings are more appealing and create more excitement for buyers. Client Care - Our dedicated client care team is your personal concierge to ensure that all aspects of listing and marketing your home go both smoothly and efficiently. Client Care follows up on all showings to retrieve valuable feedback as well as coordinates initial and ongoing marketing efforts. Field Services - Your specialized team that visits properties on a scheduled basis and verifies that your home is safe and secure. They also ensure that thermostats are set to the correct temperature (on vacant homes), refill property flyers and verify that all other conditions at your property are perfect.
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IIndividual n d i vAgent i d (Outdated) ual Agent The single agent, under the traditional real estate brokerage firm, does everything on their own. Buyers Agent – The single agent has to answer all of the calls and e-mails for your property along with five other properties that they have listed. 80% of messages go unanswered by single agents and most phone calls to single agents are not answered. Many voicemails are never returned. Furthermore, the National Association of Realtors study on lead responsiveness shows that a real estate agent’s typical response time to an online property inquiry is 48 hours! Transaction Coordinator – The single agent uses their “spare time” to follow up on inspections and also to keep in contact with all parties. Because of this, details frequently slip through the cracks causing not only frustration to the client, but also possibly the loss of a sale due to a missed contractual deadline. Marketing – A typical brokerage only expends a minimal amount of effort and money to sell your home. Even the large ones do strikingly little. Most marketing for your property is created and paid for by the single agent – not the brokerage company. Shockingly, most agents spend less than $100/month marketing your home for sale. With that budget, they lack a comprehensive approach of all marketing disciplines including digital, print, online and mass marketing. Photography/Video – Most single agents use cell phone photography or their personal camera to publicize your home. 99% of local agents also do not use video which is the top selling tool to move unique homes. Of the 1% that do use video, it is not cinematic – it is static, and it fails to evoke the same level of emotion. Client Care – The reality of working with a single agent is that they call you on their time frame in between appointments, buyer showings, closings, vacations and life. There is no system. This leaves you with only their remaining gaps of time and frequently they are not prepared for a call that makes for the best use of your time. Field Services – With no time remaining in their schedule for the details, flyer boxes remain empty for weeks or the agent provides no flyers at all.Your home, whether vacant or empty while you are on vacation, is never inspected just to make sure everything is ok. If something goes wrong at your home, even if you are just gone for a couple of days, there is no one on call to make it right immediately.
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Online Marketing The National Association of Realtors reports that 98% of home buyers begin their search online. We pride ourselves on having the most extensive online marketing program in our market.Your home will get more views, more clicks and more buyers interested. Not only will it just be included, it will be featured on all major websites such as Zillow and Trulia. Your listing will be tracked by ListHub, so we can continuously track the number of views and inquiries on your home, allowing us to react and adjust our marketing efforts, always with the goal of reducing market time.
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Worldwide Network Our goal is to present your home to a broad audience of potential buyers through our worldwide network. We automatically distribute listings to a series of global distribution partners such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Architectural Digest. This means your home will get more exposure to individuals in our local market, as well as around the world.
Social Media Just as in real estate, social media is about connecting people and cultivating relationships. Featuring your home across various social media platforms allows us to create more potential opportunities to introduce buyers to your home.
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KrisWeaver.com is the #1 local website marketing local homes. It is designed with the buyer in mind, making it easy for them to search for homes, save homes they love and automatically receive listings that fit their search criteria the second they hit the MLS (Multiple Listing Service).
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SIR.com drives more traffic locally and globally than any other luxury real estate brand in the world with more than 1.5 million visitors every month. Potential buyers have the ability to search by property, destination, lifestyle or features of a property. Once a listing goes live on SothebysRealty.com, regardless of price, it is distributed to over 140 Sotheby’s International Realty affiliates websites worldwide.
AtlanticSothebysRealty.com AtlanticSothebysRealty.com brings your online property exposure to the next level by giving the client an interactive experience beginning with our full banner, high-definition carousel of properties. Search functions are located directly beneath the carousel allowing clients to search by location, radius and map. This simplistic and immersive design has been proven to lengthen client view page times and lead to more client inquiries.
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Online Platform Features SothebysRealty.com offers full screen high-definition videos, high-definition photography, 16 available languages and the ability to search by lifestyle or destination. The benefit of the Sotheby’s Realty strategy extends the exposure of extraordinary homes to extraordinary lives in all corners of the globe with a platform that works effortlessly across all devices.
Clean Presentation Showcasing each home’s unique personality is not simply marketing, it is an art form. The enhanced editorial approach on SothebysRealty.com allows us to tell a home’s story going beyond just words.Your home’s property details page provides potential buyers with high-definition video, highresolution images narrated by captions and expert quotes from those most familiar with the property such as the architect or designer and may be displayed in 16 languages. SothebysRealty.com allows for up to 50 photos and a 4,000 word description of your unique home. Almost all other real estate companies websites limit the description of your home to just 160 characters which limits the story of your home to the length of this sentence.
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Video + Photo Gallery With video powering everything from the homepage of SothebysRealty.com to our Facebook ads, video is found throughout the site. On your property details page, video is easily viewable next to the photography of your home. There is no need to search for a link, go to YouTube or download a file, making for a more immersive experience for the potential buyer.
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Print Advertising
In addition to a vast online marketing campaign, direct mail provides an extra edge when showcasing a home. Professionally designed brochures, postcards and flyers are readily available and easily customizable so that once your home is listed, we can start advertising to prospective buyers. We also systematically send these brochures to be featured in our affiliates’ offices across the U.S and around the world, reaching over 800 offices in over 30 countries. Our affiliation with Sotheby’s International Realty means that we also have agreements with the world’s most influential media. This allows for maximized exposure and high priority to editors when submitted for special consideration.
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Exquisite property brochures provide a positive, lasting and memorable impression to clients who have viewed your home. Our brochures have only the highest quality photos, elegant design and an incredible amount of details to truly articulate the story of your home.
Magazine & Newspaper Our properties are featured in various print media such as The Virginian-Pilot and Coastal Virginia magazine. These publications feature high-end editorials focused on homes and the extraordinary lifestyles of the individuals who live in them. In addition, the exposure offered by these resources captures the attention of some of the most affluent communities in the region.
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Radio Advertising We advertise on all of the major local radio stations driving buyer traffic to KrisWeaver.com. Over 35,000 buyers looking for homes locally are signed up at KrisWeaver.com to receive new listings, including the featured homes we list, meaning more exposure for your home. By comparison, most other agents only have a handful of contacts to market to.
OUR STATS Average Number of Listeners: 223,819 Homeowners: 63% Household Income Over 100K: 37.7%
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“My husband and I were looking around on Zillow and we commented aloud that we needed a realtor as we had seen a house we loved. My 5 year old turns away from his iPad and starts singing your jingle! 340-5555...We laughed and asked him to repeat the number and then called the Kris Weaver Real Estate Team.�
- Kathy Weatherspoon, first time home-buyer
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Photography & Videography
We take the expectation of professional real estate photography to the next level. Our in-house digital media and photography team is the largest and best, approaching real estate photography as art. Our professional photography conveys size, architectural style, condition, quality and an impression of the neighborhood. This gives potential buyers the information to decide if they want to see more of your home if it meets their needs. We continue to raise the standard by encouraging buyers to make an emotional connection with your home. Video allows the buyer to connect with a home in a way that is not possible with photos. Most importantly, studies show that buyers are spending 500% more time online looking at homes with quality video versus photos alone.
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Utilizing state-of-the-art drones with 4K capability allows us to embrace your panoramic splendor by producing dramatic, sweeping shots of landscapes, ocean, lakes, rivers and seamless fly-arounds of gorgeous home exteriors. Simply put, we are able to add value by capturing important details that aren’t possible with ground level photography and video.
“After showing the video to several people, I just want to comment on the fact that it is a spectacular production. Your entire team, in my brief experience, has been such a pleasure to work with. They have demonstrated to me that I have the right team to sell my home.” - Judy Somers, Owner of The Rivage Companies, LLC.
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“Client Care is one of the main reasons we have advanced to the closing stage of our home sale. They went beyond their role to offer helpful suggestions on the home sale process. Had it not been for Client Care’s professionialism and willingness to go above and beyond, we would have never reached this point.” -Sharon Salyer, home listed and sold
Field Services
To allow our Realtors® to focus their efforts on selling your home, field services takes the time to come to your property to refill flyers, maintain signs and set-up additional signs as needed. If your home is vacant, they go out every other week and inspect your property to make sure it is secure. We value your trust and want to go the extra mile to ensure your investment is kept safe. We contact you if there is ever a need for your attention at the property. This service can also be utilized if you go on vacation for an extended period of time.
Client Care
Our attentive client care team is dedicated to providing you with an amazing home selling experience. They make sure your home gets the attention it deserves by coordinating field services, arranging photography and signage and capturing feedback from other agents who have shown your property.
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Referral Network
With over 19,000 real estate associates, Sotheby’s International Realty represents one of the few, truly interconnected nationwide and worldwide real estate networks. Associates are constantly interacting and meeting new peers through numerous events and social media. Should a Sotheby’s International Realty associate have a client living in San Diego, Germany or Hong Kong, it is highly likely the relationships with professionals in these markets has already been forged allowing for an easy move.
Military Network Hampton Roads is home to one of the largest military bases in the world. Because of this, we constantly have buyers and sellers relocating to and from our area. If a connection has not been made, we are able to locate another Sotheby’s International Realty agent who is vetted and qualified to assist you anywhere in the world. This means you will get the same exceptional service you expect from us anywhere your military service takes you.
Free Moving Truck A free moving truck is available to you. Thank you for choosing to work with us. We truly appreciate your business.
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“We do not just sell homes, We celebrate them.”
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