Leslie Sharkey Real Estate

The Buy-First Blueprint

Buy your next home before you sell this one.

Yes — you may actually be able to do that.

For qualifying homeowners, a Buy Before You Sell strategy may allow you to use the equity in your current home to buy first, make a stronger offer, move once, and sell your old home afterward.

Free blueprint · No obligation

Stop trying to time two moves perfectly.

Buying and selling at the same time can feel like an impossible puzzle.

What if you could change the order?

  • Shop for your next home before putting your current home on the market.
  • Potentially make a non-contingent offer instead of depending on your current home selling first.
  • Move into the new house before showings begin at the old one.
  • Avoid trying to keep your home spotless while you're still living there.
  • Prepare, stage or make improvements after you've moved out.
  • Move once instead of arranging temporary housing between homes.

Buy first. Move once. Sell after.

Traditional move

8 steps

  1. 1Prepare current home
  2. 2List
  3. 3Live through showings
  4. 4Accept an offer
  5. 5Find the next house
  6. 6Write a contingent offer or coordinate both transactions
  7. 7Try to line up two closings
  8. 8Move

Buy before you sell

5 steps

  1. 1Find your next home
  2. 2Buy
  3. 3Move
  4. 4Prepare your previous home
  5. 5Sell

And you may become a stronger buyer.

One of the biggest challenges for homeowners trying to move is making an offer that's dependent on selling their current home.

For qualifying homeowners, Buy Before You Sell may allow you to make a non-contingent offer instead.

01

Buy before selling

Potentially purchase your next home before the current one sells.

02

Make a stronger offer

Potentially remove the home-sale contingency from your offer.

03

Move on your terms

Get settled first. Then deal with preparing and selling the previous house.

Your current home may help fund your next move.

If you've built equity in your current home, you may have more options than you realize.

For qualifying homeowners, an Equity Advance may allow access to a portion of that equity before the home sells — helping make the next purchase and move possible.

The Buy-First Blueprint

Could you buy before you sell?

Get The Buy-First Blueprint and find out how the strategy works, what the process looks like and whether it may be worth exploring for your move.

No obligation. Eligibility and program availability vary. This is simply a way to understand whether Buy Before You Sell could be an option for you.

Your information stays private.

Leslie Sharkey, Sharkey Real Estate

Leslie Sharkey

Sharkey Real Estate

A better move starts with knowing your options.

Leslie helps Colorado homeowners navigate the sale of their current home and purchase of the next one as one coordinated strategy.

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