I used Hegg both for buying a house in 2014 and for selling the same house in 2017, and I had an excellent experience both times. I had never previously bought or sold a house. My realtor was Jamie Smith, and he was a knowledgeable and hardworking guide to the local real estate market who prevented me from making several beginner's mistakes. When I had to move several states away and leave my house empty to be shown, Jamie acted on my behalf in Sioux Falls to arrange some home repairs that had to be completed to make the sale. I was fortunate enough to get a full-price offer the day my house went on the market, and to ultimately sell the house to that buyer.
I ended up making a tidy sum of money on the house, with an approximately 3.6% annualized nominal return, which is a bit above the approximately 3% that Nobel Prize-winning Yale economist Robert Shiller found to be the long-run, national average for annual appreciation in the nominal prices of American housing. That certainly had a lot to do with the state of the market: Jamie told me when I bought in 2014 that the market looked like it was just about to recover from the real estate crash of the late 2000s, as inventory had declined, but prices had not yet risen. But in hindsight his suggested asking price for my house was just right for both me and the eventual buyer.
What struck me most about Jamie was that he was perfectly happy to work with me, and quite attentive to my needs, even though my house price was well below $100,000, while the Hegg website lists Jamie as currently selling multiple houses priced over a million dollars. But from Jamie's attention to detail, and his availability outside of normal business hours, I never would have been able to tell that he was probably making a small fraction of his usual commission from my business. Also, when I was buying a house, he never once tried to steer me towards a more expensive house, which I could have afforded, and which would have meant a larger commission for him, but which I did not want. Overall I was extremely satisfied and would not hesitate to recommend Jamie Smith to anyone looking to buy or sell a house in Sioux Falls. read more