How to Get Your Home Sold
While we’re technically in a “seller’s market,” real estate markets across the Nation are starting to balance out with many homes sitting on the market for several weeks or months and others receiving no contract activity at all. To help make sure this doesn’t happen to you, we’re covering all the things you need to do to get your home sold!
1. Hire a Good Listing Agent
First and foremost, you’ll need to make sure you’re working with the right people. Hiring a knowledgeable and experienced listing agent with resources at their disposal is imperative to getting your home sold in a timely manner and for the most money possible. Check out another one of our blogs where we go over how to find the right listing agent for you.
2. Make Any Necessary Updates
After you hire a listing agent and before you place your home on the market, you’ll need to make sure you make any necessary upgrades to your home. Some low-cost improvements you can make include a fresh new paint job, landscaping, cleaning or replacing your carpet with hardwood flooring or hardwood laminate, and updating lighting fixtures. Improvements such as these will allow you to price your home a bit higher and get your home sold quicker.
If you’re looking to improve things even more, consider tackling some major areas like the kitchen, living room, bathrooms, and the primary suite.
3. Make Sure Your Home is Priced Well
Once you’ve made necessary improvements, it’s time to nail down a price. Improvements will allow you to market your home for a higher price. However, when it comes to home pricing, you need to make sure you stay in line with the market. An experienced agent will be able to help you with this!
4. Make Sure Your Home is Staged Well
Staging your home well can take an otherwise drab space to a whole nother level! You want a potential buyer to walk in and feel as though they can move in immediately. Good home staging also helps the buyer create an emotional connection with the home. Check out another one of our blogs where we provide some in-depth home staging tips!
5. Make Sure You Take Good Listing Photos
With good staging come good photos. A well-staged home doesn’t do you much good if the listing photos don’t do it justice! Especially since most buyers start their home search online. You want them to feel compelled to come view the space in person. A good listing agent will have the resources available to make this happen for you, so make sure you ask about this in particular when interviewing potential agents.
6. Make Sure You Market Your Home Well
Top-notch marketing is the final step in making sure you get your home sold! Like everything else on the list, a good listing agent will have a plan for how to get this done. Generally, you should expect them to provide a marketing strategy, covering both online and offline spaces.
Need Some Help?
After reading this article, hopefully you have a better idea of what you can do to get your home sold quickly and for the most money possible. If you have any more questions or need help finding a listing agent, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us! We offer free, no-strings attached consultations.
And if you feel a connection with us, just know that we have a team of experienced agents ready to tackle the job for you as well as all of the resources above mentioned! We’re also proud to have been ranked as one of the Top 150 Teams in Sales Volume by the Wall Street Journal! Plus, several other accolades! Just ask and we’re happy to provide further credentials!
