The price you are told at a listing appointment is often the price that wins the listing, not the one the market will pay. This page explains how a sale runs through Langley.AI: a pricing opinion you can check, one specialist chosen against five tests, and a plain account of what we will not do to win your business.
You tell us about the property. Where it is, what it is, and when you are thinking of moving. That is enough for a first conversation, and the first conversation is free and carries no obligation.
You get a pricing opinion built on evidence: the board’s index for your sub-area, the benchmarks on this site, and the actual comparable sales, each one named and dated. It is written down so you can check it, and if it disagrees with what another agent told you, the reasons are written down too.
One specialist is chosen for you, against the five tests below, and you are told who and why. For a Fort Langley heritage house, a Salmon River acreage and a Willoughby townhome, that is three different people, and pretending otherwise is how sellers lose money quietly.
What we will not do. Quote a high number to win the listing and walk it down after. Recommend a price the evidence does not support. Hand your file to someone you have not met. Hold you to anything if you decide not to proceed.
Langley.AI keeps a deliberately small roster, a few people each deep in one part of this market. When you write in, one of them is put on your file, and the choice is made against the same five tests every time. If nobody on the roster passes all five for your property, you are told so on the first call.
The neighbourhood and the kind of property you are dealing with is what they do most weeks, not a corner of a general practice. Acreage, heritage, new construction, strata and estate land are five different trades here and are treated as five.
Completed sales of that kind of property, in that part of Langley, inside the last two years, checked on the board’s own system rather than taken on trust.
Room on their file to give yours proper attention this month. A specialist who is stretched is not a specialist for you, whatever their record.
The person chosen is the person who answers, shows, negotiates and closes. No hand-off to an assistant or a junior after the first meeting.
They have told a client not to proceed, and can point to it. On this site that is a qualification, because a commission earned on a decision you regret costs us more than it pays.
Substantially renovated, newly built, or used residential: the line that decides whether five per cent comes off your price.
The Province taxes profit on a sale within two years of purchase, with exemptions that depend on why you are selling.
Who declares, who pays, and what a buyer’s lawyer asks you to prove about the last year.
The order matters more in a slow month than a fast one. The decision, made on purpose.
Taxes, insurance, the well, the septic, the roof: the number a buyer will run before they make an offer on yours.
The three dates on the contract, what each one means for you, and how to set them so the move works.
General rules are one thing. Your situation is another. A licensed specialist reads this and comes back with a straight answer, usually the same day.