Selling A Home
If you are thinking of selling your home, chances are you are caught up in a mass of emotions. You may be looking forward to moving to a new home or facing the uncertainty of a major move across country. remember, we are here to help you with any of your needs. Call or email us today!
+ PART I: SETTING THE LISTING PRICE
In setting the list price for your home, you should be aware of a buyer’s frame of mind. Based on a list of houses for sale in your neighborhood (which can be in the form of a printed list from us, or online search results that you’ve found yourself), buyers will determine which houses they want to view. Consider the following pricing factors:
- If you set the price too high, your house won’t be picked for viewing, even though it may be much nicer than others in the area. You may have told your realtor to "bring me any offer. Frankly, i’d take less." but in that list of houses, yours simply looks too expensive to be considered.
- If you price too low, you'll short-change yourself. Your house will sell promptly, yes, but before it has time to find the buyer who would have paid more.
Note: never say "asking" price, which implies you don't expect to get it.
To determine the proper list price, contact me today and i'll provide you with the following professional services:
- Furnishing comparable sales.
- Analyzing market conditions.
- Helping to determine offering incentives.
- Estimating your net proceeds.
Using comparable sales No matter how attractive and polished your house, buyers will be comparing its price with everything else on the market. Your best guide is a record of what the buying public has been willing to pay in the past few months for property in your neighborhood like yours.
Also we can furnish data on sale figures for those "comps", and analyze them for a suggested listing price. The decision about how much to ask, though, is always yours. The list of comparable sales we bring to you, along with data about other houses in your neighborhood presently on the market, is used for a "comparative market analysis (cma)." to help in estimating a possible sale price for your house, the analysis will also include data on nearby houses that failed to sell in the past few months, along with their list prices.
This cma differs from a formal appraisal in several ways. One major difference is that an appraisal will be based only on past sales. In addition, an appraisal is done for a fee while the cma is provided by us and may include properties currently listed for sale and those currently pending sale.
In the normal home sale, a cma is probably enough to let you set a proper price. A formal written appraisal (which may cost a few hundred dollars) can be useful if you have unique property, if there hasn't been much activity in your area recently, if co-owners disagree about price, and any other circumstance that makes it difficult to put a value on your home.
+ PART iI: STAGING YOUR HOME AND PHOTOSHOOT
Prior to the taking of the pictures of your property make sure the house is cleaned and staged. Professional companies can be hired for staging and cleaning.
+ PART iiI: REVIEW OF OFFERS/ACCEPTANCE
As your agents, we will notify you when any and all offers come in. We will go over the details of every offer. The decision about which offer to accept/decline, though, is always yours.
+ PART iV: INSPECTIONS AND REPAIR REQUEST
Once the offer has been accepted. The Good Faith deposited will be collected and deposited into the Brokers account. The Buyers may do inspections during the time frame outlined in the original offer and submit Repair Request to the Seller. The decisions about which repairs you, the seller, is willing to do is always yours.
+ PART V: CLOSING
Once all the paperwork is complete on the Buyers side and all the repairs have been done, all parties meet for the final time with a closing attorney to compete the sale of the home.