One agent quarterbacks both sides — list your current home, tour your next one, sequence the contracts, time the close. The 1% listing fee + free buyer representation means you save tens of thousands and pour it straight into the next down payment.
60 seconds. I’ll text you today to set up the joint strategy call.
Every move-up family hits the same question on day one: do I sell first or buy first? Here are the three real paths — and the trade-offs nobody tells you about until you're in escrow.
List your current home, close, move into a short-term rental, then buy. The cleanest financially — you know exactly how much equity you have and you make a non-contingent offer on the next home. The trade-off: one extra move and possibly a few months of renting.
Lock down the new home — often with a bridge loan or HELOC against your current equity — then sell. Best if the right property hits market and waiting would lose it. The trade-off: carrying two mortgages briefly, plus the cost of bridge financing.
Make your purchase offer contingent on the sale of your current home. Works when the market is balanced and the seller is patient. The trade-off: in competitive multi-offer situations, contingent offers usually lose.
The 1% listing fee on the sale side stacks with free buyer representation on the buy side. That savings doesn’t disappear into a brokerage office’s lobby coffee — it lands in your closing statement and accelerates the next move.
Traditional listing
$45,000
3% listing-side commission on a $1.5M sale. The industry default for decades — at a price that doesn’t match what the work actually costs in 2026.
Anthony’s 1% listing
$15,000
1% listing-side commission, same marketing engine, same Anthony. Buyer side stays free for you on the next home.
You keep
$30,000
Lands in your closing statement. Pours straight into the next down payment. On a $2M sale, the number is closer to $40K kept.
Example based on a hypothetical $1.5M sale. Actual savings vary by sale price, buyer’s agent commission offered, and final negotiated terms.
Move-up plans fall apart at the seams between two transactions. My job is to keep those seams tight — and to put real money back into your next home along the way.
Same agent, same standards, same point of contact. No 'wait, who's handling that?' moments between two agents who don't talk to each other. I manage the timing as one coordinated play.
Eleven years of writing buy and sell contracts means I know exactly which contingency lands where, what the rent-back options look like, and how to keep your earnest money safe if the dominos start wobbling.
List your current home at my 1% commission. On a $1.5M sale, you save $22K–30K versus a traditional 2.5–3% listing fee — and that money goes straight into your down payment on the new place.
If buy-first is the right play, I'll introduce you to lenders who actually understand bridge financing. Most agents don't have these relationships. I do.
A coordinated five-stage play, with the contracts and the timing engineered together — not bolted on after the fact.
We talk through both sides at once. Current home value, target buy price, equity position, timeline, school year, school district, kids' situation — anything that affects the timing decision.
Based on your situation, we decide together: sell first, buy first, or contingent. I'll show you the financial math on each — including the cost of each option — so you decide with real numbers, not vibes.
We prep your current home for listing (or list it immediately depending on the path) while simultaneously touring target properties. Your weekends do double duty.
When both deals are in motion, I sequence the inspection windows, contingency removals, and closing dates so they line up cleanly. This is where most move-up plans go sideways — and where my 11 years actually shows up.
If sell-first means a rental gap, we pick a short-term rental together. If buy-first means carrying two homes briefly, we structure it to minimize the overlap. The goal is one move, but we plan for the realistic case.
Most move-up plans don't fail because the homes don't sell. They fail because nobody is coordinating both deals as a single play. That's the job.
If your situation is unusual — kids in mid-school-year, contingent on a job offer, long-distance move — send me a note. I've probably seen the pattern.
Tell me about the home you’re selling and where you’re heading next. We’ll set up a strategy call this week, run the math on all three timing paths, and pick the one that actually fits your life.
60 seconds. Both sides covered. Same-day reply.