REALTOR®/BROKER
704-576-9225
wsimmons@dickensmitchener.com
Milestones & Memberships
• Canopy Multiple Listing Services
• Canopy REALTOR® Association
• National Association of REALTORS®
• North Carolina Association of REALTORS®
• Strategic Pricing Specialist
• Dickens Mitchener Top Producer
• Winnie Simmons’s career contains a harmonious palette of experience, having worked a total of 26 years in interior and architectural design, brokerage sales and investments.
• Not only is she an experienced real estate investor, but she has owned and operated a successful design business since 1994.
• 26 years of experience in design, brokerage, sales
• She has been an active parent volunteer and school board member at the South Park Campus schools: Selwyn Elementary, Alexander Graham Middle School and Myers Park High School.
• Simmons volunteers at her church, and at Young Life
• Member of the Executive Association of Charlotte(EAC), Charlotte’s oldest networking association.
• Three-time Five Star Award Winner.
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As a home seller, you have a wide range of choices when it comes to listing your home. Agents who are REALTORS® are a trusted source of advice and stand ready to help you navigate this complex process and make the choices that work best for you. NAR’s recent settlement has led to several changes related to broker commissions that benefit sellers, and we wanted to clearly lay them out for you
Here is what the settlement means for home sellers:
• You still have the choice of offering compensation to buyer brokers. You may consider doing this as a way of marketing your home or making your listing more attractive to buyers.
• Your agent must conspicuously disclose to you and obtain your approval for any payment or offer of payment that a listing broker will make to another broker acting for buyers.
• This disclosure must be made to you in writing in advance of any payment or agreement to pay another broker acting for buyers, and must specify the amount or rate of such payment.
• If you choose to approve an offer of compensation, there are changes to how this can happen.
• You as the seller can still make an offer compensation, but your agent cannot include it on a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) MLSs are local marketplaces used by both buyer brokers and listing brokers to share information about properties for sale.
• Your agent can advertise your listing via off-MLS platforms such as social media, flyers and websites.
• You as the seller can still offer buyer concessions on an MLS (for example, concessions for buyer closing costs)
These settlement practice changes will go into effect August 17.
These may be held at any time on an “as needed” basis. Once an Open House is scheduled, it will be entered into MLS and will appear on the DM website, as well as all MLS feeds on other large search sites. DM features all Open Houses on social media accounts every Friday for the upcoming weekend.
Our marketing department will create custom marketing materials for your listing. Custom pieces are designed in house and will be mailed to specific lists that cater to our marketing plan/schedule.
Broker events may be held to introduce your home to other local agents in the Charlotte area and around your home. We have a database comprised of thousands of Charlotte agents that we can select from to invite to your home. Once scheduled, this event will go into our company calendar which is emailed out to our agents weekly.
When you visit dickensmitchener.com you get immediate access to more than 14,000 resale listings through the Canopy Multiple Listing Service, as well as an up-to-the minute database of new listings, coming soon listings, new construction listings, and open houses. It also features virtual tour videos of Dickens Mitchener listings.
Our invitation-only network was responsible for $272 billion in annual home sales volume among the top 500 U.S. real estate firms in 2024.
U.S. HOME SALES VOLUME AMONG THE TOP 500 U.S. REAL ESTATE FIRMS.
THERE’S STRENGTH IN NUMBERS. Never has that been truer than when coming together in the real estate community to combat homelessness.
THE HOMEOWNERS IMPACT FUND, a designated 501(c)3 nonprofit, invites participants who are in the home closing process to make a small donation that adds up to a substantial gift to local organizations working to lift men, women and children out of homelessness. Because when you harness the power of community, you can weather any storm.
If you’re fortunate enough to have a roof over your head, please consider supporting the Homeowners Impact Fund to help others in need. Funds raised are distributed directly to reputable nonprofit organizations that support individuals and families in finding a path out of homelessness.
Every day, you experience the joy of a place to call home. Every day, more than 3,000 people in the Charlotte area experience homelessness. Every day, more than 580,000 people across the US experience homelessness. Together, we can make a difference.
Become a supporter by following this link: homeowersimpactfund.org/donate For more information, email info@homeowersimpactfund.org
