What's Your Home Worth?
Selling your home involves much more than just placing a "For Sale" sign in your yard and going to the closing. This is why sellers have hired real estate agents to handle the details for them for the last 200 years. We enjoy helping you prepare, market, and sell your home. We do our best every day to help our customers succeed. We offer multiple listing options, enabling you to choose the most economical way to sell your home. We also include you in the selling process by consistently updating you with feedback.
In under an hour, we will determine the correct price range for your home, point out things you should do to your home to make it more appealing to buyers, and devise our most effective plan of action. Here are some things we will do to assist you in selling your home:
• We go over the selling process with you, without the technical jargon.
• We perform a comparative market analysis.
• We determine the list and target prices.
• We market your property.
• We keep communication with you open.
• We present the purchase agreement.
What Price Should You Ask for Your Home?
We know that you want to ask the highest price possible. That's why we research the current market to see what the highest reasonable price is. Here are a few hints on setting the right price:
• Often, your home's value depends on recent selling prices of comparable homes in your area. After reviewing the selling prices of such homes, the price is adjusted accordingly.
• Buyers often look in the price range determined by their monthly ability and down payment.
• Buyers can be very knowledgeable in their price range and then purchase by comparison. Unreasonable asking prices are an immediate turn-off.
• Inviting a potential buyer to make an offer shows that you are willing to bargain. But if your asking price is outrageous, the buyer's offer will most likely be unreasonable.
• It's necessary to offer competitive pricing, terms, and conditions in your area. This will help you sell faster and get the full market value.
Marketing Your Listing
There are three factors that determine if your home is a marketable listing. They are Price, Financing, and Time.
Price - If your home is priced too high, you must be willing to wait a longer time for your home to sell. Either it will take more time to find someone to pay more than the home is worth, or the market will eventually catch up to the "asking price" of the home through inflation.
Financing - You may not realize it, but the financing of your buyer can have a tremendous impact on the success of selling your home. When a contract is received on your home we immediately ask for your buyer's pre-approval letter. We then stay in contact with your buyer's mortgage company up until closing to assure things go smoothly and there are no surprises at closing.
Time - If time is an important factor, you must be willing to lower the price.
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