Buying a Home in Connecticut Made Simple
The Via Domus Team provides expert guidance for buyers across Hartford County and Litchfield County, helping you navigate every step with confidence.
200 West Main Street, Avon, Connecticut 06001 • TheViaDomusTeam@raveis.com
Brenda (860) 965-6121 • Brenda.Drzewiecki@raveis.com | Michael (860) 416-4482 • Michael.Grady@raveis.com
Why You Need the Via Domus Team
of William Raveis Real Estate by Your Side!
Buying a home is one of the most important financial decisions you will make. With over 35 years combined experience, The Via Domus Team helps first-time and experienced Connecticut home buyers navigate the process with local market expertise, personalized property searches, skilled negotiation, and hands-on guidance from the initial consultation through closing.
Your Home Buying Journey
Step 1: Initial Consultation
Step 2: Mortgage Pre-Approval
Step 3: Home Search
Step 4: Making an Offer
Step 5: Inspection & Due Diligence
Step 6: Closing
Buyer Representation Agreement
A Buyer Representation Agreement is a legal document that formalizes your working relationship with a particular buyer’s representative, detailing what services you are entitled to and what your buyer’s rep expects from you in return. While the language used in the document is formal, homebuyers should view it as an important and helpful tool for clarifying expectations, developing mutual loyalty, and most importantly, elevating the services you will receive.
The Benefits of Buyer Representation
Strength as a Team
Successful home buying requires communication and teamwork. By understanding your priorities, budget, preferred locations, and long-term goals, we can focus the search, identify appropriate opportunities, and help you make informed decisions with confidence.
Higher Level of Service
When you work with The Via Domus Team under a Buyer Representation Agreement, we are committed to representing your interests throughout the home-buying process. From identifying properties and evaluating market data to preparing offers and navigating the transaction, you receive personalized guidance focused on your goals.
Clear Expectations
A Buyer Representation Agreement clearly defines our working relationship, the services we provide, your responsibilities as a buyer, and how compensation is handled. Establishing these expectations from the beginning helps create a more transparent and organized home-buying experience.
Professional Advocacy
As your buyer representatives, we advocate for your interests when evaluating properties, reviewing market conditions, preparing an offer, negotiating price and terms, and navigating inspections, appraisal, and other important steps before closing.
Marketing: If the listing broker or seller is offering compensation for the buyer’s broker, the listing agent can share that offer through their marketing, such as in flyers, signs or emails.
Website displays: A broker can show offers of compensation for their listings on their website display. Brokers must not display offers of compensation for other broker’s listings on their website display. You can show other brokers’ compensation on your listings if you don’t get it from MLS data or an MLS feed.
Seller concessions: Sellers may elect to offer concessions to the buyer, which may be used for items like paying for the buyer’s closing costs or the commission for the buyer’s agent. If the local MLS allows, such concessions can be communicated on the MLS within designated fields. However, any concessions listed cannot be conditioned on the use of or payment to a buyer broker.
Ways to Negotiate and Communicate Offers of Compensation
Negotiations: Buyers may request that their agent include broker compensation as part of the terms of a purchase offer.
Buyer agreements: A written Buyer Representation Agreement establishes the working relationship between you and your real estate agent before touring homes. It outlines the services your buyer's agent will provide, your responsibilities as a client, the length of the agreement, and how your agent may be compensated.
Buyer-agent compensation can vary by transaction. Depending on the property and terms negotiated, compensation may be paid by the seller or listing brokerage, negotiated as part of the purchase offer, paid by the buyer, or handled through another permitted arrangement. We review these options with you before you begin touring homes so you understand your representation and potential financial responsibilities.
Certified AI Real Estate Agents
As Certified AI Real Estate Agents, Brenda Drzewiecki and Michael Grady combine professional judgment and local market expertise with AI-driven tools and analysis to help buyers research market conditions, evaluate properties, understand pricing trends, and make more informed real estate decisions.
Property Search
The Via Domus Team will identify the features, price range, and Connecticut communities that fit your goals, then create a personalized property search based on your criteria. You'll receive access to a personal search portal where you can review listing photos, property details, and new homes as they become available. We coordinate showings and continuously monitor the market for opportunities that match your needs.
Market Data
Market value is determined by many factors, including the availability of similar properties at competitive prices, location, condition, and most of all, the price that a knowledgeable buyer is willing to pay. The Via Domus Team provides relevant comparable sales and current local market data to help you determine an informed and competitive offering price.
Purchase Offer
The Via Domus Team will help you structure a competitive purchase offer based on the property's market position, comparable sales, your goals, and the terms that matter most to you.
Negotiating
When an offer is submitted, price is only one part of the negotiation. Financing, deposits, inspection terms, closing dates, contingencies, and other conditions can influence the strength of an offer. The Via Domus Team helps you develop a negotiation strategy designed to protect your interests while positioning your offer as competitively as possible.
Handling Details
Once your offer is accepted, there are several important steps before closing, including inspections, appraisal, financing, mortgage commitment, and other transaction deadlines. The Via Domus Team helps coordinate the process, keeps you informed, and provides guidance through each step as you move toward closing day.
Certified Homeownership Professionals
The Via Domus Team has received training in the real estate, mortgage and settlement services processes and are certified homeownership professionals. This means they can help both buyers and sellers navigate the homeownership process and negotiation process, making the transition seamless and stress-free.
Sellers list their homes with real estate agents to ensure professional representation throughout the home selling process. As a buyer, you deserve the same kind of service and representation!
Why Work With The Via Domus Team
• Over 35 years combined experience
• Local expertise throughout Hartford & Litchfield Counties
• Certified AI Real Estate Agents using technology to help buyers make informed decisions
• Personalized home search with immediate property alerts
• Skilled offer preparation and negotiation on your behalf
• Guidance through inspections, appraisal, financing, and transaction deadlines
• Hands-on support from your initial consultation through closing
First-Time Home Buyers
Buying your first home can feel overwhelming, but you don't have to navigate the process alone. We help first-time Connecticut home buyers understand financing and pre-approval, identify suitable properties, evaluate homes, prepare competitive offers, navigate inspections and appraisal, and understand what to expect through closing.
Ready to Start Your Home Search?
Learn more about our Connecticut Real Estate Services for buyers:
• About The Via Domus Team • Home Buyer Section • Testimonials From Past Seller & Buyer Clients
• Schedule A Free Buyer Consultation • Active Listings / Past Sold Listings
• Local Housing Market Reports • Our Real Estate Blog Page • Contact The Via Domus Team
“Mike and Brenda are amazing people who stand behind their clients 100%, even after the sale. They are very patient and will make you feel like you are shopping for a home with your own parents. I was so anxious to find something that at one point I almost settled, they talked me through everything and helped me be patient until I found what I was looking for. I had no knowledge of home buying or the things to look for when doing so and they shared so much of their knowledge and taught me so much, that will stick with me forever! Thank you, Mike and Brenda, you are the best! Highly Recommend!”
- Kristalyn Brackett — Buyer in Torrington, CT
Areas Covered
Covering All of Connecticut
Specializing in Hartford & Litchfield Counties
• Avon • Barkhamsted • Berlin • Bloomfield • Bristol • Canton • Colebrook • East Granby • Farmington
• Goshen • Granby • Litchfield • Morris • New Britain • New Hartford • Norfolk • Plainville • Plymouth
• Simsbury • Southington • Suffield • Torrington • West Hartford • Winchester
