Our Services

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Residential | Commercial

Residential Services

SELLING YOUR HOME

Our homes are our most valuable and cherished assets. That’s why it’s important to partner with a trusted advisor who has a deep understanding of the real estate market and who can expertly price a property to help the seller find the highest possible offer in a timely manner.

The best agents put their sellers first. They inform the seller of marketplace realities and can help market a home so that it attracts the greatest number of qualified buyers.

A savvy agent maintains excellent relationships within the brokerage community and works well with all the members of the seller’s advisory team, including attorneys and accountants. They also know how to identify qualified buyers, streamlining the entire selling process from start to finish.

THE PRESTIGE CENTURY 21 DIFFERENCE: Since 1971, CENTURY 21 Real Estate has set the standard in the real estate business. So, when it comes to your home, never settle. Move with the relentless agents of the CENTURY 21® Brand on your side.  

Prestige CENTURY 21’s agents provide every seller with a program tailored specifically to their needs. With an unequaled level of discretion and personalized attention, our clients enjoy the best of both worlds: a company that is small and nimble enough to meet a seller’s needs, with the essential infrastructure and resources of a large firm.

Our agents can position a home to move quickly and at the highest possible price. We are skillful negotiators who know how to interpret complicated financial statements, assess buyer qualifications, and weigh or anticipate other factors that can make or break a deal. Our discerning professionals excel at recommending the appropriate staging of a home to ensure that it “shows” at its absolute best. Sellers’ homes are also reflected beautifully in our marketing materials, with exquisite photography that puts every listing in a class of its own.

When you are ready to sell, we encourage you to take a look at how other firms market their properties. We are confident that Prestige CENTURY 21 stands apart from the competition.

BUYING A HOME

Purchasing a home is an investment in the future. Market knowledge and a depth of market experience are vital when making such an important decision. Ongoing and personalized service and follow-through are equally crucial. This translates into efficient use of your time and effective management of your assets.

The Chattanooga area offers a wealth of options for residential buyers. From posh Southern estates in Riverview to classic bungalows in the Northshore, and from modern Downtown lofts to beautiful 1920s homes in Highland Park, the choices seem almost limitless.

Therefore, you must work with an experienced and knowledgeable agent who can offer a wealth of information along with strong negotiating and problem-solving skills. In a city where demand is high and supply is low, choosing the right broker makes all the difference.

THE PRESTIGE CENTURY 21 DIFFERENCE: With confidence, we represent each buyer with the highest level of service while bringing intelligence and skill to every transaction, large or small. Our agents offer in-depth market expertise and have intimate knowledge of Chattanooga's most desirable neighborhoods and buildings. Our heightened level of attentiveness and understanding helps us match buyers with homes that reflect their lifestyles, needs, and personalities. And while our approach is ever thoughtful, our responsive agents move quickly in order to ensure that buyers have access to the newest and best properties on the market.

We remain involved at every stage of the purchase: initial home search, negotiation, going to contract, and closing. Our goal is to make the buying process as seamless as possible, exceeding our clients’ expectations every step of the way. It is one of the reasons that the majority of our business comes from referrals. Our comprehensive and success-oriented approach ensures that clients return to us again and again throughout their lifetimes—and endorse the Prestige CENTURY 21 name.

Commercial Services

BUSINESS CORPORATE SERVICES: This includes helping businesses of all sizes expand their facilities and find new locations; the buying, selling, and leasing of commercial realty; and locating specialty properties for manufacturers, retail, office or other organizations.

TENANT SERVICES: This includes property and facility management services, project management to rehab a space to be leased, and assisting landlords with all aspects of renting out commercial real estate listings.

INVESTOR SERVICES: This is a specialization in investment properties and advising investors on purchases and how to make the best investments in real estate. We also assist with financing and loan services.

ADVISORY SERVICES: The advisory services cover a range of information that commercial realty buyers and sellers need to know, such as market value, taxation, construction, risk management, and zoning regulations.

Apartments/Multi-Family: Multi-family residential buildings vary by location (urban or suburban) and size of the structure (high-rise or garden apartments).  Economic drivers of apartment buildings include demographic trends, home ownership and household formation rates, and local employment growth.  Leases are typically short-term (one to two years), and adjust quickly to market conditions. Larger apartment buildings are only minimally affected by any single vacancy.  Multi-family properties are generally considered to be one of the more defensive investment types within the commercial real estate, though they are still subject to competitive pressures from newer construction.

Office: Office buildings range from large multi-tenant structures in city business districts to single-tenant buildings (like a hospital’s medical office building). Rents and valuations are influenced by employment growth, a region’s economic focus (finance and high-tech centers need more office space), and productivity rates.  Individualized tenant improvements are usually not very involved, but credit quality of tenants is key; releases of office space typically require some lead time to consummate.  Office properties often have longer-term leases that can lag current market lease rates, so that “step-ups” (or step-downs) of rental rates are not infrequent when leases expire. Because these buildings are often leased to businesses (not just individuals), the tenants often demand special features in the leases, including rights of first refusal to rent contiguous space, signage rights, or even building purchase options.

Retail: The retail sector includes everything from smaller neighborhood shopping centers (encompassing, for example, a small grocery, pharmacy, and a few restaurants or clothing stores) to large “super-regional” malls that have entertainment activities and can draw shoppers from a great distance.  In the remainder of the spectrum are community shopping centers, fashion or specialty malls, outlet malls, and “power” centers with a “category-dominating” anchor tenant like Home Depot or Wal-Mart. Retail properties are most broadly influenced by the state of the national economy generally, especially such indicators as employment growth and consumer confidence levels.  More local factors include the property location and its traffic flow; population demographics; and local household incomes and buying patterns.  Retail store leases frequently contain a base rent plus a “percentage rent” based on the tenant’s gross sales figures.  Leases also often have long terms; as with office buildings, this means that after a while lease rates may lag current market rates, and step-ups may need to wait until lease expirations.  New tenants may also demand more in the way of space improvements that contribute to the “look and feel” of their business.

Industrial: Industrial properties include manufacturing facilities, warehouses, distribution centers, and research & development space. Manufacturing and R&D properties tend to be build-to-suit buildings that can be difficult to “re-tenant” without extensive modifications, while warehouses and distribution centers can be more generic buildings.  Industrial properties are also influenced less by local job growth than by larger economic drivers such as global trade growth (imports and exports) and corporate inventory levels.  As with office buildings and retail centers, industrial property leases tend to have long terms, so that over time lease rates can fall behind “market.” Perhaps most importantly, industrial properties tend to be occupied by a single tenant, adding another level of risk to the property.

Other property types in the commercial sector include self-storage facilities, healthcare properties, hotel/l