Depending on where you live in the country you may need to list your home now if it is your goal to sell in the spring. Your local real estate agent will provide you with information on your local market and specifically the average days on the market a home is sitting until it receives [...]
Home owners need to be aware that the next 4 months are prime time for selling their home. Why? The reason has to do with money, up to $8,000 in some cases. First time home buyers have a tax credit incentive available if they buy a home prior to April 30, 2010 and anyone who [...]
If you plan on selling your house in 2010 there are things you need to know that will help you accomplish your goal:
What do you need to know in order to sell your home?
You need to know…
The initial list price you choose is crucial. Testing the market or having the attitude that you can always [...]
There are several easy things that you can do to improve your home that do not require hiring a professional or spending a lot of money which will help you sell your home faster. These include:
De-cluttering the closets, the garage, the extra room no one uses and is now filled with boxes or unused stuff, the utility [...]
Your kitchen can help you sell your home or prevent you from selling it. Before offering your home for sale you need to take a look at your kitchen and make a decision on what updates and improvements are needed. You should consult with your listing agent as well. Your agent can provide insight to [...]
How soon after listing your home should you consider reducing the asking price? This is a question you should be discussing with your listing agent. Their knowledge of your area, home prices, days on the market and the amount of traffic you have received will play in to their suggestions on price adjusting.
Typically a home will receive [...]
If you are faced with selling your home at a price that is not sufficient to cover your mortgage you will need your lender to approve a payoff that is less than owed. This process is generally referred to as a short sale transaction.
Short sales are becoming common around the country. Real estate agents are [...]
A contingency contract would be a contract that has one or more specific clauses that must be satisfied before the buyer and/or seller are required to close on the sale of the property. Some of the more common contingencies include financing, satisfactory inspections, repairs, clearing title, lender approval of a short sale, the selling of [...]
Not being able to get inside a seller’s home in order to show it to a potential buyer needlessly stops home sales from happening. You would think that a home for sale would be available to be viewed with little or no hassle and yet the opposite is the case more often than it should [...]
As the home owner you can play a big role in the marketing of your house. Think about this, who knows the house better than you? Before you place your home for sale make notes on what it was about the house that attracted you. Offer these notes to your real estate agent so they can [...]
