Experienced Guidance From Home Search to Closing
Buying a home is exciting, but it can also be complicated. Finding the right property is only one part of the process. Understanding value, structuring an offer, negotiating terms, navigating inspections and appraisals, and getting successfully to the closing table all matter.
The Moving Memphis Group at Emmett Baird Realty helps homebuyers throughout Memphis and the surrounding Mid-South navigate every step of the buying process.
Led by Tracie Benetz, a full-time Tennessee REALTOR® since 2013 with more than $187 million in career real estate sales, our team has helped hundreds of families successfully buy and sell homes throughout the Memphis area.
Our goal isn’t simply to help you find a house. It’s to help you make a smart real estate decision and find a home that’s right for you.
Your Memphis Home Search
The first step is understanding what you’re looking for.
We’ll talk about your goals, budget, preferred locations, timeline and the features that matter most to you. From there, we can help you explore available properties and communities throughout the Memphis area.
Our team works with buyers throughout Memphis, Germantown, Collierville, Arlington, Lakeland, Bartlett, Cordova, Millington, Atoka, Oakland and surrounding Mid-South communities.
When new properties that fit your search become available, we can help you evaluate them quickly and determine whether they’re worth pursuing.
More Than Opening Doors
Finding a home online is easy. Determining whether it’s a smart purchase can be much more complicated.
When viewing properties, we help our buyers look beyond beautiful photographs and staging. We consider the home’s condition, comparable sales, market activity, potential resale considerations and other factors that may affect the purchase.
If we see something that concerns us, we’ll tell you.
Our job isn’t to convince you to buy a particular house. Our job is to provide the information and guidance you need to decide whether you should.
Making & Negotiating an Offer
Once you’ve found the right home, we’ll help you determine an appropriate offer strategy based on the property, comparable sales, current market conditions and your individual situation.
Price matters, but it’s not the only part of an offer.
Financing, earnest money, contingencies, inspections, appraisal considerations, closing costs and timing can all affect how an offer is structured and how attractive it is to a seller.
Our team will explain your options, prepare your offer and negotiate on your behalf with the goal of protecting your interests while giving you the strongest opportunity to purchase the home you want.
Inspections, Appraisals & Getting to Closing
An accepted offer is a major milestone—but there’s still work to do.
We’ll help guide you through the next stages of your purchase, including inspections, repair negotiations, appraisal, financing, title and the steps leading up to closing.
Real estate transactions don’t always go perfectly according to plan. When an issue arises, experience matters.
We help our buyers understand the problem, evaluate their options and determine the best path forward.
VA Home Buyers & Military Relocation
The Moving Memphis Group has extensive experience helping Veterans, active-duty service members and military families purchase homes throughout the Memphis area using their VA home loan benefits.
VA transactions can have considerations that aren’t present in every conventional purchase. Our experience includes VA appraisals, Minimum Property Requirements (MPRs), VA assumptions, entitlement and other aspects of the VA home-buying process.
We also assist military families making PCS moves to NSA Mid-South in Millington.
For buyers who want convenient access to the base, we frequently work throughout Millington, Atoka, Bartlett, Arlington, Lakeland and surrounding communities.
If you’re relocating from outside Tennessee, we can help you explore communities, evaluate properties remotely and be your eyes and ears on the ground throughout the process.
Relocating to Memphis?
You don’t have to live in Memphis to start your home search.
We regularly work with buyers relocating to the Mid-South and understand how difficult it can be to choose a home and community when you aren’t familiar with the area.
We’ll help you understand the local real estate market, compare communities and coordinate as much of the process remotely as possible until you can be here in person.
Ready to Buy a Home?
Whether you’re a first-time homebuyer, relocating to Memphis, moving up, downsizing, purchasing with a VA loan or simply ready for something new, we’d love to help.
Tell us what you’re looking for and we’ll help you understand your options and develop a plan for your home search.
Moving Memphis Group at Emmett Baird Realty
Service You Deserve – People You Trust.
Contact us to start your Memphis-area home search.