If you have been watching the news at anytime in the past few months, you’ve no doubt heard about the slowing housing market. So how do you sell quickly in a slow market?

THERE ARE 3 WAYS TO SELL YOUR HOME QUICKLY!

1. Price your home to sell! If you prepare a truly accurate Market Analysis, then you will have a good idea of what price your home should sell for if it sells in the average sales time. If you want to sell faster than 80 days, then consider coming down on the price by $3,000 to $4,000. Anything more (on an average priced home) and buyers may think the price is too good to be true and worry. This will help your home stand out to a potential home buyer or a buyer’s agent and encourage the buyer to jump on a good deal. Research has shown that the average home, priced $4,000 below average market sales price, sold in significantly less time.
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Most Realtors and Home Sellers will tell you that a detailed home inspection is the responsibility of the Home Buyer to have done for prior to closing. I would like to offer another point of view on this subject. One that may help you sell your home a little faster and help ensure your home closes.

In today’s housing market, homes are not selling as quickly as before. You need every tool available to ensure your home sells and closes. So, how can a pre-listing inspection help? I believe there are 3 ways a pre-listing inspection can help which I have listed below.

1. Create confidence and trust for potential home buyers. When a home buyer knows of potential problems ahead of time, they are more likely to feel comfortable with the purchase and prepare themselves for the repairs. They are going to find out later anyway and deals have a tendency to fall apart when problems are discovered at the last moment.
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The real estate housing market in many areas has become very slow. With slower sales, what can you do to help drive traffic to your home increasing your chances at finding the right home buyer to sell your home quickly?

This is where technology can really help! Today, over 80% of home buyers begin their home search online. While home buyers are viewing homes online, they are spending the majority of their time looking at a home’s pictures. Pictures speak a thousand words… especially when you only have a few hundred words available for an MLS listing description.

It absolutely amazes me that any seller or Realtor would bother listing a home online without posting a photo with it immediately. Tens of Thousands of potential home buyers receive “just listed” properties emailed to them each week from websites like ours, FSBOmarketplace.com. If a FSBO seller or real estate agent fails to post that home with at least a few pictures, most of those potential home buyers will not give that property a second look.
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