How to Sell Your Home Fast

Selling your home on your own isn’t a cakewalk! That’s why we always encourage you to have real estate professionals handle the marketing and pricing of your home for you! Not to mention having someone represent you when it comes time to negotiate repairs is always helpful so you make sure you get your home sold on the most favorable terms!

 

Price it right, not above market value.
Take advantage of our FREE home evaluation tool to see what price range your home lies in. To get a true estimate of what you should list your home for sale for, you should have one of our agents follow up with a comparative market analysis. A comparative market analysis will help you determine the best price based on other houses for sale nearby. So if there’s a lot of homes on the market in the area, you have to price more competitively to get your home to sell before the competition. However, if the opposite occurs and there aren’t a lot of homes for sale in your area, you have the upper hand and can be more flexible with your sale price. You can ask for a higher price because there are fewer homes similar to yours on the market!

 

Make sure it looks great online.
90% of buyers are starting their home search online. So making sure it looks great online increases your chances of selling by 90%! Having professionally taken photos of your home makes all the difference in how many showings you will get. The more showings you receive = the more likely your home is to sell. We also encourage video to make sure your home’s floor plan can be understood by a potential buyer.

 

Set the mood for your showings.
For showings, there are a few general rules we recommend you follow. First, your home needs to be pristine and clean! This also coincides with rule two, make sure your home smells good! Your home smelling good will put the buyers in a positive mood towards your home which also makes them able to better visualize themselves in your home! Third, play soft, relaxing music playing on low volume while the potential buyers are there. Why do we recommend this? Think about it. Buying a home is one of the biggest purchases you can ever make. That would make anyone pretty nervous! Having this music playing in the background while they walk through the home helps calm their nerves which means they are more likely to make the decision to submit an offer on your home! The fourth rule is pretty obvious, but sometimes forgotten, but make sure to take your pets along with you! Not everyone is too fond of pets, so removing them from your home allows the buyers to have a more positive experience in your home! Lastly, make sure your house is nicely lit by opening blinds or turning all lights on before their entry! Following these few small rules allows for potential buyers to have an overall positive experience when viewing your home!

While there is so much more to the selling process, following these first three steps will help you sell your home fast!