“Setting Standards Others Dream of Achieving”
Sirius is your one stop source for the business side of owning, operating or acquiring
a golf course.
Sirius Real Estate LLC 6544 Mink Drive, Midland GA 31820 904-576-6383
Want to sell your golf course? Sirius can help!
We offer a number of services to help you sell your course FAST and for TOP DOLLAR.
These include:
- Brokerage Services: We can list your course. As a broker, we will market your course
to both the local and national markets.
- Market Value: Considering selling your course? Want to know how much its worth?
We can help! We can provide you a broker opinion of value that will tell you what
the current market value of your golf course is in today’s market. We can also advise
you as to whether or not its highest value is as golf course, or as land for other
uses. To determine value, we look at both National and Local trends.
- Consulting: We can advise you on such matters as:
Market value of your course
Optimal time to sell
How to present your course for maximum value
Alternatives to selling, if you really don’t want to sell, but are feeling pressure
to do so.
Prospectus or Business Plan preparation
- Marketing: Advertise your course on our site! We can even create a custom webpage
to help you sell your course fast. We can also help create and execute a marketing
plan for you, including promoting the course to other golf course brokers.
- Interim Management: Need help managing your course while it’s on the market? We
can provide interim management services to assure the course is not only being properly
and professionally managed and maintained, but we know how to present it to buyers
when they visit! And unlike other interim management firms who serve mostly as caretakers,
in almost every case, we will actually improve performance! This will help you not
only sell the course faster, but increase the course’s value!
When deciding to sell your course, you basically have three choices:
- For Sale By Owner - Try to sell it on your own, in an attempt to save commission.
But are you reaching the buyers? Are you selling it at the right price? How valuable
is your time?
- Local Broker - Hire a local real estate broker to sell your course. These brokers
may do a good job reaching the local market, but they typically do a lousy job reaching
the national market. Nor do they have expertise in the industry to know how best
to present the course or even how to properly evaluate it in today’s market.
- Golf Course Broker - National golf course brokers have the expertise to properly
evaluate and market your course to qualified buyers on the national scene. But they
do not promote the course locally. Yet half the buyers of golf courses come from
the local market. Further, many of these brokers do not share commissions, thus
shutting out all the other brokers and their buyers.
But Sirius is different! When we list a course, we target both the local and national
markets!
- Expertise: We have over 20 years in the golf industry. And unlike other brokers,
we have actually operated golf courses. We know what buyers are looking for and how
to best present your course to them.
- Pricing Strategy: We will provide you with what your course is worth in today’s
market. Then we will advise you on the best pricing strategy, taking into consideration
what your needs as to speed vs. greed i.e., selling your course fast, vs. maximizing
value. We will also advise as to what the highest and best use is for the property
- which may not be as a golf course. We then design a marketing strategy around
your needs and desires.
- Preparation: We will help you prepare for the sale. In addition to providing marketing
materials, we will help you “stage” the course to maximize its appeal.
- Local and National: We market to both the local and national markets. If your facility
is not near one of our offices, we will enlist the help of a local broker to enable
the course to be advertised in the local multi-list service and promoted locally.
This is important, as half the buyers come from the local market where buyers already
have a familiarity with the course. But the other half the buyers are national,
and Sirius knows how to reach them!
- Commissions: Many national golf course brokers do not share commissions, wanting
both sides of the transaction. Yet no broker comes close to having half the market,
so this in effect shuts out the majority of buyers! At Sirius, our loyalty is to
YOU, not to the dollar. We believe it is in your best interest to have as many people
as possible trying to sell your course. That is why we share our commissions with
whatever broker brings the buyer to us.
- Marketing: We provide a comprehensive marketing plan to not only help you reach
as many buyers as possible, but to present your course in a way to maximize its appeal
and value. Our services include:
- Local MLS: Most buyers come from other agents who are already working with them.
So we make sure they know about your course! We make sure your course is listed
with the local multi-list services.
- Our Website: With more golf courses listings than any other site, more and more
buyers are checking out our website first. Your course will automatically become
a featured listing, with links to your course’s website and to a special website
we will set up to sell your course.
- Custom Website: We will set up a web page just for your course. This website will
contain pictures, descriptions, and information designed to present your course in
the best possible way. We can then use links to this website in all our advertising.
- Flyer: We will prepare a flyer, similar to the web page, that can be distributed
locally.
- Our Buyers: We will email and promote your listing to our large list of active and
qualified buyers.
- Other Brokers: We go beyond simply sharing our commissions, we will actually market
your course to other golf course brokers, giving you access to their buyers as well
as ours!
Find out what your course is worth in today’s market! We will provide you with a
Broker’s Opinion of Value, which not only provides what the course is worth on the
open market, but can often be used in lieu of a more expensive appraisal by banks,
etc.
In addition to determining your course’s value as a golf course, we will advise you
as to what the highest and best use may be for your property, which may be other
than a golf course. In this case, we will provide you with the market value based
on this usage.
In determining value, we will utilize both local and national trends.
Unsure as to whether to sell or not? We provide consulting services to help you
determine whether selling is the best option or not and what your other options may
be. We can also advise you as to when to sell. Further, as revenue and profitability
are the biggest determining factors in the market value of golf courses, we can help
you improve your revenue and cash flow and thus increase the value of your course.
- Business Plan: A business plan can not only help you improve your performance, it
can help you sell your course! By providing prospective buyers with a blueprint
for success, you not only are increasing the value of your property, but you will
be showing them the return on their investment.
- Prospectus: For many, a viable alternative to selling is to recruit investors. To
do this, you need a prospectus to show them why they would want to invest and their
return on investment. We provide a prospectus that is not only informative, but easy
to read and understand.
- Operations/Marketing: We can provide targeted consulting to help you in any area
of operations, maintenance or marketing that you need.
We offer a number of marketing packages that can help you sell your course fast,
whether you are an owner or a broker. These packages are designed to meet your needs
and your budget.
- Basic (Featured Listing): Your course will become a “featured listing” on our website.
As such, it will appear at the top of the list of courses in your state. Further,
you can write the copy (up to 150 words) for the listing and include your contact
information and a link to your website. COST:
- $250 for three months
- $400 for six months
- $600 until it’s sold
- Add $50 to include a picture
- Gold: The Gold package includes the Basic above, plus a custom web page for your
course, providing important information and sales materials for prospective buyers.
The featured listing on our website will include a link to this webpage, but you
can also use this link in your own advertising.
- $1,750 for six months ($100/month thereafter)
- Premium: Includes the Gold package above, plus we will email our buyers and other
golf course brokers information about your course, including your contact info. This
way you will reach their buyers as well as ours! Cost: $2,000
- Custom: Need help in other areas, such as creating flyers, ads, etc., we can help!
Let us set up a customized plan to suit your needs.
Real Estate Agents an Brokers receive a 10% discount.
There are many situations where new management is needed to continue operating the
course until it is sold. Whether your need is through an estate situation, foreclosure
or simply poor previous management, we can help!
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Marketing and Advertising
Sirius provides comprehensive management services that will assure your course is
operated professionally until it is sold. But we are not just a caretaker! In most
cases, we are able to both improve course conditions and profitability, both of which
are essential when trying to sell your course. Further, as we are also in the business
of selling golf courses, whether or not we are the listing agent, we can make sure
the golf course is presented optimally to any prospective buyer.
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