Denver Real Estate
Selling Options
There’s More Than One Way to Make a Move
Every real estate situation is different. You may need to sell before you can buy. You may want to avoid a home-sale contingency. You may need to sell quickly. Or the traditional buying or selling process may be exactly what you need.
With more than 22 years of real estate experience and access to Orchard’s suite of buying and selling solutions, I can help you understand the options available and develop a strategy aligned with your goals.
Jonas Markel
Start With Your Goals, Not a Program
There isn’t one “best” way to buy or sell a home.
The right strategy depends on your finances, timing, current home, next home, priorities, and what you’re ultimately trying to accomplish.
That’s why I don’t start by trying to fit every client into the same process. I start by understanding your situation. From there, we can look at the options, discuss the advantages and considerations of each, and determine which path makes the most sense for you.
Want to Buy Before You Sell?
For many homeowners, the hardest part of moving is determining how to buy the next home while still owning the current one.
Orchard’s Move First program is designed to help eligible homeowners buy and move into their next home before selling their old one.
An equity advance may allow you to access equity from your current home to help fund the down payment and closing costs on your next purchase. A home-sale guarantee can also allow you to make a stronger, non-home-sale-contingent offer.
Buy Before You Sell
You may be able to use your existing equity toward your next home without waiting for your current home to sell.
Make a Stronger Offer
A non-home-sale-contingent offer can make your offer more attractive to a seller.
Move Once
Move into your new home before preparing and selling your old one.
Skip the Showings
Instead of living through buyer tours, your old home can be shown after you’ve moved out.
Sell on the Open Market
Your current home can still be marketed and sold on the open market after you move.
What Could a Cash Buyer Offer for Your Home?
Selling directly to a single cash buyer may sound simple, but one offer doesn’t necessarily reveal your best option.
Through Orchard Offers, I can help source and compare multiple cash offers rather than relying on a single buyer.
I’ll help you review the offers, understand the price and terms, compare them against your other selling options, and negotiate on your behalf.
Depending on your priorities, a cash offer may provide benefits such as a faster sale, fewer showings, and greater certainty around your timeline and proceeds. And if the offers don’t make sense for you, you’re not obligated to accept one.
Want the Certainty of Cash With the Potential for More?
For some sellers, there may be another option.
Cash Offer + Upside can provide an upfront cash offer while allowing the home to continue to be marketed for sale.
If the home ultimately sells for more than the initial cash offer, the seller may receive the upside.
The basic process
Get Your Cash Offer → Choose Your Closing Timeline → List on the Market → Receive Any Additional Upside
Need to Sell Quickly, But Want to Test the Market?
A traditional listing can maximize market exposure, while a cash offer can prioritize speed and certainty.
FastTrack Offers is designed for sellers looking for a potential middle ground.
The strategy is built around generating immediate interest, concentrating showings into a shorter period, creating urgency, and using a built-in cash offer to help drive competitive bidding.
Rather than assuming a traditional listing or cash offer is automatically best, we can look at your priorities and determine whether a FastTrack strategy makes sense.
Buying a Home the Traditional Way?
You don’t need an Orchard program to work with me.
Whether you’re purchasing your first home, moving across Denver, relocating to the area, downsizing, or simply looking for something that better fits your life, I’ll guide you through the traditional buying process from beginning to end.
That includes helping you understand the market, evaluate homes, structure your offer, negotiate effectively, navigate inspections and other contingencies, and get to closing with as few surprises as possible.
Sometimes a Traditional Sale Is the Best Strategy
For sellers whose priority is maximizing their home’s exposure and market value, listing traditionally may still be the best path.
I’ll help you prepare and position your home, establish a pricing strategy, market the property, evaluate offers, negotiate terms, and navigate the transaction through to closing.
And because we can compare traditional selling with other options available through Orchard, you’ll have more information before deciding which route to take.
Not Sure Which Option Fits?
Programs are subject to eligibility, availability, terms, and conditions. Jonas can help you understand which options may be available for your situation.
Explore Move First
I need to buy before my current home sells
Explore Orchard Offers
I want to see what cash buyers might pay
Explore Cash Offer + Upside
I want cash certainty but potential market upside
Explore FastTrack Offers
I want to sell quickly while testing the open market
Explore Traditional Representation
I simply want to buy or sell traditionally
You Don’t Have to Choose a Strategy Before We Talk.
That’s what I’m here for. Tell me where you are now, where you’re trying to go, and what’s making the move complicated. I’ll help you understand your options and determine the next step.