Real estate coaching: 5 thoughts before you buy

Buying a home is not easy, and even less so for those who decide to do it alone. Antonia Caballero, real estate coach, tells Monapart Madrid the reasons why these services are becoming more and more fashionable.

When you go to an estate agent to search for your home and decide to hire a Personal Shopper service, you place your trust in their knowledge of the market, their ability to understand your needs, their database of properties, their criteria in the selection process, their efficiency in obtaining detailed information (both seen and unseen)... But what happens before this relationship of trust and accompaniment with your estate agent begins?

Before you start looking for your future home, you should always do some preliminary thinking to define what type of home you want, with what characteristics, in what area, what maximum budget you have... In some cases, this reflection is not always complete, you do not always take into account all the necessary questions and, therefore, you are not always clear about the answers that will define your search. In other cases, you may feel overwhelmed by the stress or anxiety that comes with making decisions that will affect your way of life or that you are not entirely sure about.

"You only buy once in a lifetime. Do it WELL."

For something as important as buying a home, which you will probably do only once in your life, before you make a decision "This is what I want!"You should take a good look at personal, economic, family, social factors...

At Monapart Madrid we have included in our Real Estate Personal Shopper service a coaching session by the economist and coach Antonia CaballeroFor all those clients who want to delegate the search for their future home to a professional and come to it confident and convinced of what they really need, with the peace of mind of a well-considered decision.

After a long career as a financial manager, consultant and negotiator, Antonia Caballero uses her experience to better understand her clients, their concerns and needs, and brings out the best in each person through coaching sessions in an atmosphere of total trust.

Let's take a quick look at those factors that Antonia reflects on in her coaching sessions:

• Housing factorAspects related to the characteristics of the dwelling and its location (the size, the distribution of the spaces, the views, the area...).
• Economic factor: A mortgage is a disbursement that will affect your financial situation and your consumption habits, and therefore, the level of quality of life that you will assume during those years. For how many years should you ask for it?
• Emotional factor: Making a decision means giving up an alternative, and that always brings with it an uneasiness that in certain profiles can translate into real stress.
• Family factor: Inevitably, this change of situation will affect those with whom you live. Only your partner? Do you have children? Are you a large family? Any dependent members? Do grandparents have to live with the family? Do children have to share a room or not? Do you have to combine private use of the home with professional use?
• Social factor: Your environment is going to be altered too. Are you going to leave your old neighbourhood?

If you have never been to a real estate coaching session, you are probably wondering what is this session with Antonia Caballero like? What will I find?

It is above all a private and confidential meeting, apart from the real estate agent, where he establishes a relationship of accompaniment in your process of reflection on your current situation, with the aim of helping you to discover the best way to find your solution.

In the course of the session, you yourself discover certain points that you had not taken into account until now, your range of options widens, you identify them and make decisions with the new data on the table. In short, you become aware of the reasons that drive you to make the decisions you are making and you take responsibility for them. Doing this on the basis of your own internal reflection means facing the situation with greater calm and clarity.

In this way, when we start the Real Estate Personal Shopper service (read this interview we did with Enric Jiménez from Somrieone of the standard bearers in offering this service in Spain and President of the Spanish Association of Real Estate Personal Shoppers), we will face the search with the security of knowing what you want and what will make you feel good about yourself. You know, if you want to look for your future home, stop for a moment, review your wishes and needs... and we'll get down to work whenever you want!