Sellers guide
Magnificent marketing
A strong and proven marketing strategy is an essential element to showcasing your home to potential buyers. Our Professional and creative team highlights all the best qualities of your home in a way that no other Real Estate Agent in the Bow Valley can match, consisting of professional photography, videography, graphic design and aerial drone footage.
Global Exposure
Powerful and innovative social media and an online magnificent marketing presence showcases your home to every potential buyer through channels such as Youtube, Instagram, Google and more!
See For Yourself
Our magnificent marking package includes a stylish and sophisticated website feature on canmorehomesforsale.com, an exclusive 4K video tour, professional photography and virtual tour, showcasing your property to a worldwide audience.
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4K video tour
Photographic portfolio
OUR MARKETING STRATEGY
Want to know what happens behind the scenes to marketing your home? We've created our marketing timeline just below, so you can see each step and process we take before we premier your home to hit the market.
Behind the scenes of our marketing
This infographic displays the rough timeline of how we market each property, the steps that are taken and the thoughts behind our process.
Storyboarding
Richard and Sophie will storyboard your property prior to filming, this allows us tell your homes story, showcasing it's most fantastic features.Tell us all about your amazing property.
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Professional videography
A personalized cinamatic film of your home using the most up to date photographic equipment - will be captured, where Richard will give a exclusive tour of your home.
Aerial photography / videography
Sophie is a licensed Transport Canada certified professional drone pilot, in which we can capture aerial videography and photography.
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Photographic portfolio
We work with Canmore's HD Photography - Trevor Martin, who will capture a stunning photographic portfolio of your property.
360 Virtual tour
Trevor will capture a 360 virtual tour of your home, 360 virtual tours are great to showcase your property at first glance.
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Digital newsletters
We send out a monthly newsletter to over 300 direct contacts in which your property market campaign will be shared.
Real estate magazine
Your property will be advertised in the Real Estate Magazine which showcases properties throughout The Bow Valley.
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Reaching audience
Once we have completed the marketing campaign for your property it will be showcased to reach a local and world wide audience. Your listing is live on Realtor.ca, Remax.ca and a wide variety of other Real Estate platforms.
Structured campaign
We use a variety of platforms including; Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Linked In, Google my Business, Bombbomb Newsletter and Blog posts to highlight your property to reach the widest of auidences.
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Listing engagement
We monitor our analytics from your listing campaign to ensure it is reaching a significant audience, we boost content by releasing smaller "reel" versions to keep your listing current.
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Meet our team!
RICHARD GREAVES
Broker/owner
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Creative professional
SOPHIE SMITH
Professional photographer
TREVOR MARTIN
RICHARD GREAVES | Broker/Owner
Canmore Real Estate Agent Richard Greaves moved to the Bow Valley almost 30 years ago, from the UK. Now he is a successful Canmore Real Estate Agent raising his active family in these beautiful surroundings. Richard is an established leader in the Canmore Real Estate industry and is fully committed to providing superior services to meet the needs of his clients and exceed their expectations.
SOPHIE SMITH | Creative professional
TREVOR MARTIN | Professional photographer
Sophie, also from the UK graduated from the University of Worcester with a BA Hon's in Creative Digital Media. With a professional background in Photography, Videography and Graphic Design, working with Richard - showcases your property in every creative light. Sophie is also a licensed Transport Canada certified professional drone pilot.
Trevor Martin is a long-time local Canmore resident and business owner since 2004 and professional commercial photographer & cinematographer dating back to 1997. Trevor has a dynamic background in new home residential development design and sales, residential real estate sales as well as commercial photography and professional cinematography. Trevor's professional resume includes estate-level residential sales in Canmore, continuous Canmore residential photography, published commercial photography work as well as a large number of film and television cinematography productions including Oscar Award winning motion picture work in Vancouver BC. Trevor is a proud member of the International Photographers Guild and the Professional Photographers of Canada.
Client focused. Results driven.
TRUST. KNOWLEDGE. SKILL.
Richard is a full-time REALTOR® in the Bow Valley, and since starting in the real estate business in 2007 has served hundreds of happy clients. Richards's three key attributes that are fundamental to your success are trust, knowledge, and skill.
TRUST - Helping over 400 happy clients, Richard has built Trust within his client network in the Bow Valley.
KNOWLEDGE - Richard has 15+ years of experience as Canmore's local trusted REALTOR® as well as 7+ years of Broker/Owner of RE/MAX Alpine Realty.
SKILL - Richards extensive knowledge and experience in the Canmore Real Estate market coupled with his superior negotiating and communication strategies will help you sell your home for the highest price while ensuring a smooth, seamless and stress-free transaction.
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"Right at the beginning of all the uncertainty brought on by Covid-19, Richard found us the condo that we had been looking for. We were most impressed by Richard's local knowledge and his ability to put us in touch with excellent people including inspectors, lawyers and city planners. Thank you Richard for all that you have done for us. We love our new place." - Mary Browning
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"April 2022 and we now sold our 2nd property with Richard and again happy with his flexibility and support in helping us out when we couldn't be in town. Made a big difference that he was so close. And he brought in creative ideas to have our log home exposed to a broader market. Enjoyed working with you." - Allie Sutton
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"If you wish for a responsive, knowledgeable and thoughtful Real Estate professional, Richard embodies such qualities, and many more. Throughout the entire process, Richard took care of everything, and even called a tradesperson on our behalf, when we needed some help upon taking possession. This is the kind of personalized, attentive and after sale service that distinguishes Richard as a pro, who cares more about his client relationship than simply making a deal. His friendly demeanor, rigor in his negotiating skills and sense of humor made us comfortable to seize an opportunity…within days, we had a signed offer. We can only recommend Richard for your Real Estate needs, 6 Star service!" - Yann Clavadetscher​
RICHARD AND KYLES STATISTICS
15
RICHARD
YEARS IN REAL ESTATE
312
RICHARD
MILLION IN REAL ESTATE SOLD
RICHARD
451
PROPERTIES SOLD
15
KYLE
YEARS IN REAL ESTATE
346
KYLE
MILLION IN REAL ESTATE SOLD
KYLE
336
PROPERTIES SOLD
STRESS FREE AND SEAMLESS.
Selling process.
Selling your home.
Once you have the made the decision to sell your home with a REALTOR® it’s important your REALTOR® of choice has the knowledge, expertise, marketing reach, negotiation skills and advice to navigate the ever changing Canmore real estate market. Richard will guide you through the sales process, consulting and advising at every step, to alleviate your stress and ensure you are being provided the best options and expertise when marketing the home for sale and negotiating with Buyers.
Communication.
Communication is the key to success and Richard will communicate frequently, at key milestones throughout the sales process. He also asks that you communicate with him to ensure he can meet and exceed your needs and expectations. Richard will ask you the following questions:
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What's your ideal timeline for listing and selling your home?
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What are you looking for from your Realtor?
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Are you up to date with the current market conditions?
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What are your favorite features of your home?
This answer to these questions will then dictate the trajectory of listing your home for sale so that Richard can ensure all critical points in the marketing process can be scheduled and met according to the overall timeline.
When you're ready to list...
Richard has a step-by-step process of events that need to happen to ensure your home is ready to hit the market in the best possible way. Some of those steps include:
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Determining the value
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Discuss tips and tricks to increase the presentation of the home- staging and decluttering.
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Arranging for the members of Richard’s professional team to take photographs, videos, and measurements
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Discussing and completing the necessary contracts
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Detailing our exclusive marketing process.
Let us take care of you.
Richard’s team works together to support you and showcase your home better than any other REALTOR® in Canmore. We ensure that your home has the widest exposure across all MLS platforms as well as “Best in the Bow Valley” exposure across social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and more.
We deliver results. We will continually analyze your property throughout the listing and marketing process and if changes need to be made we will discuss them with you and adapt as needed
RICHARDS STATISTICS
16
YEARS IN REAL ESTATE
312
OVER 312 MILLION IN REAL ESTATE SOLD
453
PROPERTIES SOLD
BUYERS GUIDE
BUYING WITH RICHARD
Buying a home will likely be one of the biggest decisions you will do during your lifetime. It is important to have someone you trust guiding you through the process and helping you understand the market you are buying into. Canmore has some particularities that make navigating the real estate market a bit tricky but your Canmore Real Estate Agent Richard Greaves can help you understand it.
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Stay up to date on what’s happening in the Canmore Market
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Create a custom search so that new listings matching your criteria are delivered to your inbox
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Request more information on specific properties that interest you
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Contact me to schedule a showing right from the website
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As your Canmore Real Estate Agent I will help you:
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Determine your Needs and Wants
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Make sense of all the different types of zoning in Canmore
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Understand the different neighborhoods of Canmore
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Understand the Current Market Conditions
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Select and View Properties
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Write an Offer to Purchase
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Negotiate on your Behalf
BUYING WITH RICHARD
YOUR BUYERS JOURNEY
our step by step process to finding you your dream home
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Meet with clients to determine their search criteria and budget
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Discuss the current Canmore market conditions
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Review both parties duties and responsibilities during the Realtor and Buyer relationship
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Provide buyer package (contracts)
STEP 1 - INITIAL MEETING
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Set up Property email search so you receive properties as they hit the market
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Preview properties on behalf of buyer
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Detailed walkthrough with buyer on the desired properties
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Answer all questions and provide detailed information on all properties of interest
STEP 2 - START THE SEARCH
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Prepare market analysis in area to determine the offer price
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Explain the purchase contract terms to the Buyer and the offer process moving forward from this point. Address any questions.
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Advise on which terms and conditions need to be added to the contract to best protect the buyers interest through the purchase process
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Pull property title for review prior to preparing the offer
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Confirm the property tax amount for the property with the Town of Canmore
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Prepare purchase agreement package (contract) for signatures
STEP 3 - PREPARING OFFERS
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Present buyers offer to listing agent
Respond/negotiate counter offer / contract amendments
Strategically prepare any new count offers
Collect Deposits from Buyer and provide them to the listing brokerage
Organize, schedule and attend any Inspections, appraisals and document reviews for the Buyer
Provide buyer will all information pertaining to ownership of new property including Utility companies, insurance companies, property management companies, Canmore schools and more
STEP 4 - NEGOTIATION
STEP 5 - CLOSING
Buyer walkthrough prior to key exchange to ensure house is clean and all sellers possessions are removed
Deliver keys to new owner
Welcome home & time to celebrate
START THE SEARCH
let's find your dream home!