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Selling a home is a major transition. You do not have to manage it alone.

From the first planning conversation through preparation, launch, negotiation, and closing, our team provides clear advice and hands-on support tailored to your home, your timeline, and your priorities.


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Our Step-by-Step Home Selling Process

Selling a home involves many interconnected decisions, but you do not have to manage them alone. Our team will help you understand the process, identify priorities, coordinate preparation, and move confidently from the initial planning conversation through closing.

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Step 1: Understand Why You're Selling

Every seller has different priorities. You may be coordinating a purchase, relocating, managing an estate, downsizing, or working within a particular financial or personal timeline. We begin by understanding what matters most to you so we can develop a strategy tailored to your goals.

Timing is only one factor in determining the best approach. We will explain the available options and recommend a pricing, preparation, and launch strategy designed around your home, the market, and your priorities. You will make all final decisions.

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Step 2: Determine Selling Price

Pricing is one of the most important strategic decisions in a home sale. We evaluate recent comparable sales, competing properties, current buyer behavior, market conditions, and the particular qualities of your home.

We will explain the advantages and risks of different pricing approaches and recommend a strategy designed to support your goals. The final list price is always the seller’s decision.

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Step 3: Start Preparations

If you’ve kept your home in showroom condition since you’ve lived in it, you’re in the minority of homeowners. Once you price your home, it’s time to start getting it ready to be shown to potential buyers. This includes getting rid of clutter, depersonalizing the space so that buyers can envision themselves in the space, making any small repairs, and doing a deep clean to make sure your home is in pristine condition.

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Step 4: Develop a Marketing Strategy

We develop a marketing strategy tailored to the home, its likely buyers, current market conditions, and the seller’s goals. Depending on the property, this may include professional photography and video, staging, print and digital advertising, social media, agent-to-agent outreach, email marketing, open houses, private previews, and Compass programs such as Coming Soon and Private Exclusives.

The launch period is important, but we continue evaluating buyer response and adjusting our recommendations throughout the listing.

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Step 5: Evaluate Offers

Receiving an offer is exciting, but price is only one part of the decision. We help you understand each offer’s financing, contingencies, deposit, settlement timing, inspection terms, appraisal provisions, and other potential benefits or risks.

We will explain the options and make recommendations, but you will decide whether to accept, reject, or counter an offer.

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Step 6: Accept an Offer

Once you decide to move forward with an offer, we will review the proposed contract with you and explain its key terms, including the deposit, financing, contingencies, inspection provisions, settlement date, included items, and responsibilities of each party.

When the buyer and seller agree to the terms and sign the contract, the property moves into the contract-to-closing phase.

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Step 7: Get Ready to Close

After the contract is signed, we remain closely involved through inspections, appraisal, title work, buyer financing, agreed-upon repairs, settlement preparation, and other contractual deadlines.

We track the transaction, communicate with the appropriate professionals, help address issues as they arise, and keep you informed about your responsibilities and upcoming dates. We will also help you plan for moving, final property preparation, and the buyer’s final walkthrough.

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Step 8: Close

At settlement, you will sign the documents needed to transfer ownership to the buyer. The title or settlement company will prepare the final paperwork, account for the transaction funds, and complete the transfer.

Before closing, we will help confirm that the contractual obligations have been addressed, keys and property information are ready for the buyer, and you know what to expect at settlement.

Congratulations!

Once you have sold your home, you’re free to take the next step on your journey. Whether this is relocating to a new city, moving into a larger home, or downsizing and enjoying your life as empty-nesters, knowing all your selling responsibilities have been taken care of will help you achieve peace of mind for your new path.

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Thoughtful Preparation. Strategic Marketing. Personal Support.

Every home, seller, and timeline is different. We begin by listening carefully and developing a strategy around your priorities. We help determine which improvements are worth making, which are not, and how to prepare and position your home to make the strongest possible impression without creating unnecessary work or expense.

What We Handle

We analyze the market, recent comparable sales, buyer behavior, and the specific qualities of your home to recommend a thoughtful pricing and launch strategy.

We help identify the repairs, improvements, editing, and presentation choices most likely to make a meaningful difference.

When needed, we help connect clients with painters, contractors, cleaners, movers, organizers, landscapers, stagers, and other trusted professionals.

We coordinate presentation, staging, photography, floor plans, video, and other materials designed to showcase the home at its best.

Our marketing may include digital advertising, print materials, social media, agent outreach, email campaigns, open houses, private previews, and Compass programs such as Private Exclusives and Coming Soon, where appropriate.

We help sellers understand the price, terms, contingencies, financing, timing, and risks associated with each offer so they can make a confident and informed decision.

We remain closely involved through inspections, appraisal, buyer financing, settlement preparation, and closing.

The Reach and Resources of Compass—paired with Highly Personal Service

Our clients benefit from the marketing reach, technology, and programs available through Compass, while still receiving direct, attentive support from a local team that knows their home, their goals, and their transaction.

Compass Concierge may help eligible sellers access funds for approved home-preparation expenses, with repayment due at closing or as otherwise provided in the program agreement.
Compass Concierge

A Compass Private Exclusive can allow a seller to begin generating interest within the Compass network without immediately placing the home on the public market. We help clients decide whether this approach is appropriate for their property and goals.

Coming Soon marketing can help build awareness before a listing’s full public launch, where permitted and appropriate.

Compass technology and its national network help us market properties efficiently, communicate with other agents, and reach prospective buyers locally and beyond.

Our professional relationships—including Top Agent Network membership and direct outreach to active local agents—help us share opportunities and gather meaningful market feedback.

Wondering what your home needs—and what it may be worth?

We'll give you an honest assessment, a practical preparation plan, and a clear picture of your options. No pressure and no obligation.

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Whether you're buying your first home, upgrading to fit your lifestyle, or preparing to sell, the Katie Bocock Team is committed to making every step of the process seamless and informed. With deep knowledge of the DC-area market and the communities we serve, we deliver personalized strategies designed to help you achieve your real estate goals with confidence.
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Katie Bocock Team of Compass

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5471 Wisconsin Ave #300 Chevy Chase, MD 20815

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