If your Barrington home is for sale, it's likely part of a subdivision. With the exception of homes in the center of the village of Barrington, it's an important piece of information about your home for sale. Which Barrington subdivision is it in?
While not all buyers know which subdivision/s they would like to live in this does not apply to every buyer. Local buyers may know the area well enough to have not only a target village but a target subdivision. They may go online and search for homes using the subdivision as part of their search criteria. So what happens if they search by subdivision, your subdivision, and your home does not come up in the results?
Simply they don't see your home for sale.
Taking this one step farther a buyer might contact a Realtor and ask to be sent a list of homes in a specific subdivision. I can search my MLS adding all their criteria including the subdivision name. Our system relies on the data input by the listing brokerage/agent. If the subdivision is not input, your home would not be returned in the results, and therefore not included in that list I just sent out.
Estates at Lake Barrington - A Subdivision Entrance
Our MLS input forms have mandatory information needed, like address, price and a lot of other data. Subdivision name is there but it's an optional field. Your subdivision is freely available information. Even if you are not sure, or it's not obvious, the tax records generally have the information. All Realtors using our MLS system have access to the tax records, it's linked directly by PIN - Property Identification Number.
I highly encourage you to check with your listings agent to find the Barrington subdivision your home is in and publish it as part of our MLS data. You never know, it could grab your buyer!
Corinne Guest
Realtor & Managing Broker
Royal Advocate Realty, Barrington
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Corinne,
Great topic: We see mislisted properties as you describe. Great properties can easily be overlooked without proper city and subdivision listing. Some subdivisions in our area are so large they are MLS included in the city category. That really does changes the search results, sometimes not for the better.
Best,
Steve
Doesn't it make you want to shake some agents? How hard is it to type in the name of the subdivision?
Or mapping....sometimes the geo-coding isn't correct....so a map search doesn't include a house.
On the other hand. an over-looked house is a good opportunity when you represent a buyer :-).
Leslie,
Yes it's such a basic piece of information. Yes a good buyers agent that knows the area very well will likely know of houses for sale in each subdivision anyway so will seek out the missing ones.
Have a great week.