The Krishnan Team Method: How We Get Buyers Into Contract in 1.4 Offers
Most buyers learn this market the hard way. Writing offers on homes they could never actually afford based on list price alone, losing, and watching the market move further away while they’re still catching up. We compress that education into a single exercise before we ever look at a property together.
Part One: The Past-Sold Exercise
Before we start searching, we pull every home that has actually sold within your parameters: your budget, your size, your neighborhoods. Not what’s listed. What has sold.
We send you that collection and ask you to favorite the homes you would have actually bought. Since every one is already sold, there’s no pressure. It’s a safe space to be completely honest about what you want.
That exercise answers two questions that change everything.
The first: does your search actually exist? If 80 homes sold in your parameters in the last six months, your search is viable. If three did, we need to have a different conversation before you give up a single Sunday.
The second: what do you actually want and how fast do you need to move when you find it? What you favorite tells us things about your taste you’d never put into words, including exactly how fast you’ll need to move when the right home appears. That calibration alone is worth the time it takes.
Part Two: Comp Extrapolation
Once you’ve found a specific property you want to pursue, The Krishnan Team prices it. Not against list price, but against what comparable homes have actually sold for, on the same street, in the same condition, in the current market.
In San Francisco, list price is a marketing number. This year alone, 144 homes in this city sold for more than a million dollars over asking. If you’re using list price to figure out what you can afford, you’re planning the largest purchase of your life around a number that was never meant to be information.
Our comp extrapolation gives you a real number before offer day. What the home is worth, what it’s likely to sell for, and whether those two numbers make sense for you. If they don’t, we’ll tell you. We’d rather lose the deal than put you in the wrong home at the wrong price.
The Design and Renovation Lens
We bring a capability most buyer’s agent teams don’t have. We can walk a property and assess within minutes whether the bones are good, what a renovation would realistically cost, and whether the asking price accounts for the work ahead.
