Personal service for your real estate needs.

Buying and selling a home or property is one of the most important things you will ever do. You have every right to expect customer-oriented, client-friendly service from your Real Estate Agent. Drew Ansley has been singularly honored by readers of the Asheville Citizen-Times and named "Best of Western North Carolina" for his service.

Our state-of-the-art office allows us to provide that personal touch without overwhelming you. Drew Ansley is a licensed Realtor® and member of the Asheville Board of Realtors. In addition to our own listings, we can show and sell any property in the regional Multiple Listing Service. If you see an ad in the newspaper, a real estate publication, a sign in a yard, or even a listing online, please call us for any information you'd like about that property. We'll arrange to show you that property at your convenience. You can shop the entire greater Asheville and western North Carolina area with just one agent. Drew Ansley would like to be that agent, and looks forward to the opportunity of meeting all your real estate needs. For more information about Drew Ansley, please see our About Us page.

What is Multiple Listing Services? How does it benefit both  buyers and sellers?

For You, The Buyer

Imagine trying to find out about the approximately 2,000 homes for sale in the area by wading through all the area newspapers, real estate magazines, and ads. Did you know... less than half the homes available are advertised at any one time... and sometimes, due to printing lead-times, an exceptional home is already sold once the ad you are reading is published. What if the home for you is marketed and sold without your ever having seen or heard about it? Reason dictates that no single agent or agency can possibly know about all the properties for sale on any given day without a huge cooperative effort. Multiple Listing Services answers this need for information and allows you, the buyer, to deal with a single favorite agent. Sophisticated computer-savvy agents will search for specific property types by profiling with their computers the type of property you want. Don't deal with someone operating in the dark ages... because you will be in the dark with them.

For You, The Seller

How can you be reasonably assured that many interested agents and their buyers will know about your property unless you advertise it constantly and in every media possible? No one, including the largest agencies around, can afford to advertise every property in every media all the time. There are dozens of different printed real estate media in this area. Does any company use them all? Which one is best, which one should a certain company use over another? Many of these questions are resolved through Multiple Listing Services - THE Agent-to-Agent media over the Internet. This is the tool of the Professional REALTOR®. The beauty of MLS is that your property is listed on line by our own special software. Once a property goes on line in MLS, 1200+ agents in hundreds of companies in many towns and communities will download this information into their own office databases. From that point forward, your property will be available on computer searches to any of these companies as they search for properties fitting their buyer's needs. This allows a buyer working with an agent miles away to see detailed descriptions and up to nine photographs of your property. The agent will even get driving directions on how to find and show your property. You, the Seller, cannot spend enough money on your own to equal this exposure of your property to interested Real Estate Professionals across Western North Carolina - and, the great majority of serious home buyers will do their shopping through these Real Estate Professionals.

In addition to Multiple Listing Services, my listings are also on Realtor.com and this website, which is linked to many other information sites such as the Chamber of Commerce, etc.

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