Home Selling Questions | Should I have my home staged?
January 30, 2010
Home staging is putting a happy face on your home. Essentially it is window dressing. Statistics tell us that a vacant home will sell approximately 35% faster if it is staged and that is not the only reason to stage your home. Homes that are staged usually sell for more money. Even if your home is not vacant, staging can be a very useful tool. A consultation with a professional stager will help the Seller to see their home through a Buyer’s eyes. A stager will make suggestions about things that should be moved or replaced. They will offer suggestions on how to place furniture to best showcase the rooms of your home. In today’s market, Buyers can be very fickle. Staging can set the mood for the Buyers. The best time to stage is right before your home goes on the market, but even after, if you have made a price reduction and it still not selling, you may want to try staging. Staging your home will typically cost you less than your first price reduction. That is more money for you and makes the home-selling process less stressful. When you list with the Thornberry Team every effort will be made to sell your home with creative and result driven marketing strategies.
Home Selling Questions | How long will it take to sell my home?
January 11, 2010
The booming Seller’s market real estate days are over, but that doesn’t mean that your home will figuratively sit on the shelf and not sell in a reasonable amount of time. How quickly your home will sell depends on what you do to prepare your home for sale. There are some simple, yet important steps you should take prior to putting your home on the market. The first thing a Buyer sees when they come to your home is the exterior. Curb appeal is very important. Make sure the lawn is mowed, plant some colorful flowers, and the front door should have a fresh coat of paint. Moving inside, make sure that all appliances staying with the home are in working order. Touch up or give a fresh coat of paint to baseboards and walls. Leaky faucets should be repaired. You home should be clean and free from clutter. Remove personal items, such as photographs, and you may need to remove some furniture. Windows should be cleaned inside and out. Carpets and flooring should be clean and fresh looking. In other words, if you want to have a selling edge, you need to put a happy face on your home, inside and outside. Once you put your home on the market, it should be made available for showing to prospective clients at all reasonable times. A potential home Buyer will move on to another home if it is not convenient to view yours. You want to expose your home to as many Buyers as possible as much as possible. All of these tips will help your home to sell in a reasonable amount of time, but the key to finding a Buyer for your home is pricing. You will need to forcefully price your home. Price it somewhere in the middle range of homes for sale that are comparable to yours. Too high of a price is not only a deterrent to your home selling, but it deters Buyers from even looking at your home. If the response to your home is low, drop the price. Your real estate agent is critical at this time. They should be able to show you comparable sales and guide you through the pricing process.
As your real estate agents, the Thornberry Team will not promise you that we can sell your home within a certain amount of time, but what we will do is work with you to give your home the edge needed to find a suitable, qualified Buyer.
