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Closing season is here. Do not let the logistics trip you up.

  • 1 day ago
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Updated: 2 hours ago


It’s late July, and that means closing season is coming. With the season, suddenly your calendar is full of inspections, appraisals, contractor visits, and final walk-throughs. This is the part of the season where deals are won or lost: not on negotiation, but on coordination. A missed inspection window or a walk-through that slips a day can cost you a sale.


THIS WEEK'S PRO TIP: PROTECT YOUR CLOSINGS WITH TIGHTER LOGISTICS


  • Map every in-progress deal against its closing date and work backward. Inspection, appraisal access, repair verification, letting in a contractor. Each one is a moment where a scheduling gap can stall the whole thing. Knowing your bottlenecks a week out is how you keep them from becoming problems.



The tasks that eat your day right now are rarely the ones that need your license. Meeting an inspector, appraiser, or contractor can be handled by a trusted covering agent, which frees you for the parts only you can do: negotiation and client communication.


When you're busy: Closing week is where your time is most valuable and most fragmented. Post the lockbox runs, inspection meets, and contractor access on KeyPleaz® so a covering agent within your brokerage keeps the logistics moving.


When you're available: Closing season means steady task volume in every market. Open KeyPleaz® to claim inspection meets and contractor coverage, the kind of reliable, repeatable work that clients love and could bring you trusted connections in the long-term.


MARKET NEWS PULSE


The back half of summer is closing season, and the market is giving agents a reason to protect every deal. Pending sales rose 3.7 percent year over year in June per Realtor.com, the seventh straight month of growth, so buyers who go under contract are largely following through. The deals are there and they are sticking, which makes clean closing logistics the difference between a strong summer and a frustrating one.

QUICK STAT OF THE WEEK


In a typical month, about 5 percent of contracts are terminated and another 13 percent close late, and NAR points to the same three culprits every time: inspections, financing, and appraisals. What isn’t on the list? The price. Deals rarely die on the number; they die in the coordination between contract and close. That stretch is exactly what is worth protecting.

Open the app to cover your closing logistics this week!



 
 
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