To be able to sell your home fast and for more, 3 things have to be checked off. Your home must be marketed well, shown well, and priced correctly. Since your home will draw the most attention in the first few weeks, it’s crucial to hit the road running when listing your home.
Here are 6 surefire ways to sell your house quickly and above the listing price:
1. Price your home right from the beginning
Pricing your home correctly is by far the best way to prevent your home from sitting on the market for months. Once you list your property, the initial three weeks is the golden zone to get showings and offers. An improperly priced home will sit on the market for months and potential buyer’s usually say to themselves, “this house has been on the market for 92 days, there must something wrong with it.” This is not the position you want to be in!
The best way to price your home properly is to run a Comprehensive Market Analysis that incorporates recent Solds, Pendings, and Active Listings (your competition) in and around your neighborhood.
2. Improve your curb appeal
For your home to show well, buyers must have a great first impression as they pull up to your house. The good news is that it doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Here are a few ways to improve your curb appeal:
Trim landscaping, mow the lawn, or organize the landscape rocks and boulders.
Add low voltage landscaping accent lighting.
Paint the front door and trim around door and windows.
Install new house numbers on your house.
Replace exterior lighting fixtures.
3. Update your kitchen
Remember the last time you had a large group of people over at your house, where did they all gather? I would put my money on the kitchen. When updating the interior to sell your home, that’s exactly where you should put your money as well! Here are some way to do just that:
Repainting can go a long way! Consider repainting the cabinets in addition to your walls.
Instead of shelling out $30,000 for a full kitchen remodel, spend $3,000 on a stainless steel appliance set.
Add backsplash to your kitchen walls.
Add bright lighting under cabinets.
Update your cabinet handles.
These small additions can have a huge impact when selling a home. If you are on a tight budget, a backslash, new cabinet handles, and new paint can go a long way!
4. Stage your home
Staging your home is a tried and true method for selling a home fast. It has pretty much become the standard when listing a home because of its effectiveness. When staging, you have a number of options open to you from simply de-cluttering, to professional rearrangement of your own furniture by an interior designer, to a full-scale staging service.
5. Get Professional HD Photography
Over 90% of all home searches start online today. When buyers find your house on the web, the truly first impressions they get of your home, are the pictures that are posted. That is why professional, high quality, high definition photos are a must. Unless you are a very skilled photographer, please hire a professional to do this. It's well worth the money, trust me!
6. Have a strong online marketing strategy.
If technology is not your strong suit, make sure to find an agent that is tech savvy when listing your property. Since most people find their future homes online, it’s important to get it to as many sites a humanly possible. Fortunately, Coldwell Banker has a software program that will automatically post a listing to over 600 websites! Yeah 600+! One thing I always do for my clients, is make a personal website featuring their home. This creates a positive impression for the buyers and it allows us to place specific keywords to help with search engine optimization (Google/Bing/Yahoo) to lead buyers to find your home online. Developing a strong online presence is an integral part in selling your house in today's high tech consumer base.
