Thursday, August 6, 2009

Home Selling Tips for First Time Home Sellers

When you are selling your home for the first time, you need to take care of certain important things. These are very essential if you intend to sell your home fast and at a good price. The first thing is pricing your home correctly. If the price is too high, it wont’ sell. The lower the price, the more hits its going to receive and greater chance of it being sold faster.

However, this does not mean that you will price it very low. For knowing the right value of your property in the real estate area, you can either look out the prices of other homes for sale in your locality or take advice from some professional real estate agent.

The next essential thing is staging the property. This will certainly make you earn great deals from the transaction. Your home must look good so that it can attract the buyers easily. For this, you should remove all the clutters, paint if needed, mow the lawns, and place everything nicely on the day when a buyer visits your home.

However, you need to make sure that the person is willing to see your property by asking a few questions to him right on the first day when he makes his first call to you. These questions should relate to the amount the buyer is willing to invest on your property, their affordability, whether they have a good credit, etc.

You should allow your potential buyers to move freely and give a look at your house. It is after all an emotional decision for your buyer. They should have this freedom to get a feel of the property that will help them in taking decisions. You should obtain a qualified bank appraisal and committal for finance from a lender.

A qualified bank appraisal is one of the best marketing tools for your property in today’s real estate market. Make sure that you are obtaining a pre-approval for the next home you intend to purchase. You can put your home on MLS as that will give it a wide exposure to the people from the real estate world.

This can help you in getting multiple offers. You can take pictures of your property and put it online so that the interested buyers can see it right there before coming to see your property. Show emphasis on the location of your property. If its within close proximity to schools, hospitals, recreational parks, and shopping malls will help in selling your property to potential buyers.

5 comments:

  1. When staging your home, do not forget to remove your personal things inside your home. Make it feel very spacious for the buyers, so that they can imagine their own furniture in your home. Also, make your home impressive inside out. Remove or replace old stuff to make everything look new. And lastly, add natural plants or flowers inside to create a fresh atmosphere in your home. Make it appealing!

    -Lorrie Sermons

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  2. Home staging is the key to being able to sell your home faster. Don’t just focus on your interior, as the exterior gives the first impression. Choose colors and details that complement what’s inside your house. Plus, consider cleaning or repairing your driveway and/or walkway, as it is the main lane that leads people to your home.

    - Petra Forbes

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  3. “Your home must look good so that it can attract the buyers easily.”--- Well, this is one of those important things that you have to consider when you’re trying to sell your house. Do your best to make it appealing to potential buyers. You have to make sure that you fix whatever structural flaws it has, and renovate before you sell your home. Considering how wonderful your house is will give them all the more reason to purchase it.


    Ofelia Bertrand

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