Real Advantages—Real Success
A career in real estate is an exciting entrepreneurial opportunity to build your own business, structure your own time and experience the satisfaction of helping people realize their dreams. Real estate also offers the opportunity to achieve considerable financial success. With this opportunity comes a great deal of responsibility including developing your own business plan, building your own marketing campaign and managing your own finances. Patterson-Schwartz makes it much easier to launch and grow your real estate business by partnering with you and providing an unprecedented degree of support, technology and training.
Programs and Services that Work
Our reputation is a direct result of our Sales Associates commitment to providing home buyers and sellers with integrity and exceptional service. Patterson-Schwartz is committed to providing our Sales Associates with the resources that they need to be successful. When considering a real estate company to associate with look for and compare the programs and services that we offer:
Strength of the Leader
Exceptional Training
Business Building Tools
Technology
Relocation
Management & Administrative Support
Compensation & Benefits
Beyond the Bottom Line
A Company to Be Proud Of
Are You Ready for Your Future?
At Patterson-Schwartz we're looking for great people like you - if you're ready to join and experience the winning attitude of a growing, professional, dynamic real estate organization call Juli Giles, Director of Recruiting at 302-234-6099 or email her now.
The Strength of the Leader
For the past 50 years, Patterson-Schwartz has been the market leader in New Castle County, DE. In our other market areas, Kent County, Cecil County, MD, Chester County, PA and Delaware County, PA we maintain a strong presence and continue to grow. Our success has been built on providing the highest quality service to our customers and clients.
Our excellent reputation is your advantage! You can feel good about joining a company that people respect, knowing that they will regard you with the same high esteem. Back to Top
Exceptional Training
Patterson-Schwartz is known in the real estate industry as the company that does things right. This high quality is the result of a comprehensive training program that is offered to every Patterson-Schwartz Sales Associate, at no cost.
This training program, Successful Start, is designed to give Sales Associates all of the skills and information needed to launch and grow a thriving real estate business. You will learn how to develop a business plan, make listing presentations, write contracts, negotiate offers, manage your time, market yourself, adhere to high ethical standards and serve your clients well. You will also learn, through hands-on practice, how to utilize technology tools to maximize your productivity. Intensive classes are taught in our training center by Patterson-Schwartz' experienced management team, who share practical information that you will be able to put to use immediately.
Your training doesn't end when you graduate from Successful Start. In fact, it has only begun. A career building program will help you get your business started and ongoing coaching will help you maximize your success.
You will also benefit from in-house continuing education classes that are offered at no charge. These classes make it affordable and convenient to fulfill your continuing education requirements. Free, in-house technology classes are also offered to help you learn about the latest tools and, most importantly, how they apply specifically to your real estate business. Back to Top
Business Building Tools
Marketing is an important part of a Sales Associates success, and no other real estate company understands that better. Patterson-Schwartz offers a number of key marketing programs to contribute to your success. A full-service marketing department will develop advertising, brochures and direct marketing programs to promote you and the properties that you have for sale. The costs of your print advertising and direct mail are subsidized by Patterson-Schwartz to enable you to market yourself extensively.
Patterson-Schwartz integrates print, online, and mobile marketing channels to effectively generate more leads and make your time fruitful. Your property listings are promoted online at pattersonschwartz.com and m.pattersonschwartz.com, our mobile website – both are an information and contact source for nearly 70,000 visitors each month. Your listings are also syndicated to numerous other real estate websites including Realtor.com, trulia.com, zillow.com, delawareonline.com to name a few. A custom individual property website is created for your listing with its own unique URL (web address) and branded with your agent information. Sales Associates may take advantage of creating their own internet presence through the Agent Website program. Home-text:) our mobile text messaging service provides potential buyers with immediate information about your listing and connects them with you for more information.
In addition to exposing you and your listings to the widest possible audience, Patterson-Schwartz Sales Associates successfully use tools available on our Intranet, PS@NET such as:
- Marketing Service Reports – on demand report that details the services, advertising, showings, showing feedback, Internet/Text inquiries as well as a market update on your sellers property.
- On Demand Market Watch and Quarterly Analysis of the Local Housing Market – provides sellers and buyers with market data and trend analysis to understand the current real estate market. In addition, the market share graphs are a powerful component to a Sales Associates listing presentation.
- Free Virtual Tours – created automatically for your listing with up to 25 photos and distributed to pattersonschwartz.com, realtor.com and You Tube as well as other real estate websites.
- Craigslist Ad Tool – create a professional looking ad and quickly post to Craigslist
- Direct Mail Program – Just Listed/Just Sold color postcards subsidized by Patterson-Schwartz.
- And so much more!
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Technology
More than ever, technology is changing the way we do business. It touches every facet of the real estate transaction from contact management, listing, selling, contracts, and settlement to follow-up after the event. No where locally will you find a real estate company with such an extensive suite of technology tools in place.
Our offices are equipped with high speed networks, full Internet access with connections available at each desk or wireless access if you prefer. Ample computers in the work area, high speed color printing (at no charge), and copiers with print, fax and email functions for your printing needs. Efficient communication is facilitated with an email address that can be checked within or from outside the office, voicemail, and a direct telephone number with forwarding or call notification capability.
PS@NET, our Intranet, provides Sales Associates with a comprehensive set of professional tools to help build and manage your business. You'll have access to online forms and contracts, marketing tools such as Flyer Creator, Market Watch, E-newsletters and Direct Mail programs and DocCentral your online filing cabinet for transaction documents to name a few. You'll also enjoy access to our proprietary property search function that mirrors the Multiple Listing Service with automated email functions, multiple property photos, mapping, and agent branding. Integrated listing and contact management functions free your time to do what you do best - list and sell properties. All of this is accessible online from your home or office no matter where that might be!
As important as the technology is the availability of hands-on training. We have a Marketing/Technology Trainer who is devoted to provide education and support to our Sales Associates. Back to Top
Relocation
Patterson-Schwartz has a full service Relocation Center. Individuals and families have access to our services and expertise to handle all aspects of their relocation. From home finding services to area counseling and tours we provide special services to transferring families with the goal of reducing their stress while delivering cost effective services for the employer corporation. Through our relocation network, The Leading Real Estate Companies of the World and our status as the only DuPont Preferred Broker we are able to generate quality referral business to our Sales Associates. Back to Top
Management & Administrative Support
Our Management team is dedicated to helping you become successful. They are hard-working, talented and knowledgeable in all aspects of the real estate business. They share a vision of working hard to be the best - with their support and leadership Sales Associates at Patterson-Schwartz share that vision too! Nowhere locally will you find the depth of administrative support that enables Sales Associates to do what they do best – list and sell- leave the details to us. Back to Top
Compensation & Benefits
Our commission and benefit programs are competitive and designed to motivate and reward at all levels. No other local real estate company provides such an aggressive compensation plan and delivers to you a complete package of support and services as Patterson-Schwartz.
To help secure your stability now and in the future, Patterson-Schwartz offers access to a retirement plan, health insurance, dental insurance, disability insurance and payroll services for Sales Associates' assistants. Back to Top
Beyond the Bottom Line
These tools and support are much more than just conveniences. They enable you to focus on listing and selling homes, knowing that the other aspects of your business are in good hands. This means you can do more business and earn more income. Patterson-Schwartz Sales Associates consistently rank among the best in the nation for per-agent productivity. The average number of transactions handled by each Patterson-Schwartz Sales Associate is far greater than the average real estate agent. Since each transaction contributes to your bottom line, you can easily see how the support you receive at Patterson-Schwartz translates into greater financial success.
Our exceptional customer satisfaction rating is another key to the success of Patterson-Schwartz Sales Associates. This rating is so important to us that we survey each of our clients after every transaction. Consistently, our Sales Associates achieve a 99% score for having met or exceeded their customer/client expectations. This remarkable statistic translates to a large number of positive referrals and repeat clients, both of which are critical to success in real estate. Back to Top
A Company to Be Proud Of
Obviously, your earning potential is critically important when you're making career decisions. However, there are many other factors that contribute to your career satisfaction as well. You want to work with a company that supports you and values you. You want to feel proud of the company you represent. You want your co-workers to share your commitment to quality service. Patterson-Schwartz is that company!
Patterson-Schwartz has involved local ownership and management. The members of our management team are local real estate experts who have experienced all types of market conditions. They are willing to provide guidance and committed to helping you succeed. Your ideas will be heard, your concerns will be addressed and your performance will be noticed.
We have a singular focus on Delaware and the surrounding counties of Pennsylvania and Maryland, where we live and work. We are the area experts, with a strong local reputation and an equally strong network of service providers and support.
Patterson-Schwartz also has a long-standing commitment to support worthy causes in our community, which is manifest in the Patterson-Schwartz Foundation. Our community involvement ranges from helping to build homes with Habitat for Humanity, to the literally hundreds of organizations who receive our support through financial contributions and volunteer hours. This commitment is so important to us that a portion of the proceeds from each of our transactions is donated to the Patterson-Schwartz Foundation to support local causes. Since its founding in 2001, the Patterson-Schwartz Foundation has contributed nearly $1,000,000 to various local organizations and charities.
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