Selling your home has become a bit more challenging in recent times, but there is a lot you can to do help the process along and close faster. Before the economic turndown one could get away with merely listing a house and drawing in lots of foot traffic to view the property.
In today’s market you’re going to have to do a little extra to sell your house. Here are a few quick tips to help you close the deal faster:
- Declutter and depersonalize your entire house and try to emulate a model home. People like to imagine what a house will look like with their stuff inside the home, not someone else’s. So remove all personal photographs and all appliances from the countertops. You want to find the balance between having enough items in the house to spark the imagination of the buyers but not so much as to limit it to seem like someone else’s home.
- In line with managing the appearance of your home, after you’ve taken out all of the clutter and created and atmosphere which lends itself to the potentials buyers imagining their items inside, you’re going to do some work on the outside. Power washing, a fresh coat of paint on the door, some new mulch in the flower beds and around the trees — even new house numbers if the old ones are chipped and dull.
- Before a new buyer even leaves their house, they will look around on the internet. You should audit your realtors website to make sure that your listing is promoted well and features at least six pictures. Those listings with six or more pictures are visited, on average, over 90% more often than those with six or less pictures.
- Look up the sale values of the homes near yours of similar size and style and see how much they sold for. You will want price your house about 10-15% lower than those recent values. This will generate interest and could potentially start a bidding war.
- Another recent tactic that has worked in closing deals is leaving behind some of your personal property that is slightly above the price range of your prospective home buyers. Things like a large-screen plasma TV or stainless steel appliances.
There are plenty of things that you can do to help you sell your home faster and get more money out of it. Not only by using the tips above, but by educating yourself as much as possible. Take time to visit the other listings in your neighborhood and see what they are or are not doing well and make your home stand above the competition.
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