Columbia SC Home Selling Tips

Tips For Owners Attempting To Sell Their Home

Selling a home these days is no walk in the park. This is especially true if you do not know what an acceptable price might be for your home, or if potential buyers are not willing to commit to your asking price. There are a few different things you can do to make the selling process much more effective and easier.

Everyone is looking for a deal when it comes to real estate. Be realistic about the price you set, and have the flexibility to negotiate.

An excellent way to win the potential buyer from other sellers is to examine what they’re asking for their homes and then offer yours for just a little bit less than that amount. This will certainly give you and your home more attention in the marketplace.

Another thing you need to do is to make sure your property is well maintained. You need to make it look as good as possible so you don’t put potential buyers off before they even consider your home. Any place that looks dilapidated is not attractive.

Take the time and effort to take care of any maintenance issues you find. The better a buyer feels about your home the more likely he will be able to picture himself living there.

You should also consider removing any personal belongings. You need to give the potential buyer a clean and uncluttered view of the home they may possibly be living in one day, and a clear idea of what they could do with the home.

You may even consider bringing in a professional stager to stage your home for sale. The stager will help you clean and spruce up your space by rearranging furniture, adding pictures to the walls and accessories to shelves or tables, and maybe even putting a new coat of paint on a room.

These small things can actually go a long way. If you do them correctly and efficiently, you will find your place sold in no time.

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Home Staging to Help Sell Your Home

If trying to sell a home, it’s always a good idea to talk about ‘presentation’ (how your home will look to prospective buyers when they walk through) with your real estate agent, or, if selling by yourself, consider a home stager…

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Selling a Home in a Buyer’s Market

Selling a home in today’s buyer’s market is a challenge. Here are some tips for making your home more attractive to sellers to help you close the deal quickly…

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Selling a Home in a Foreclosure Market

If you absolutely, positively don’t have to sell in this market, then don’t, but if you must, whether now or five months from now, take the plunge now.

The slowdown in foreclosure activity could mean somewhat less competition.

But even more critical, there is the boomerang effect to take into account. The number of foreclosures is expected to skyrocket as we head deeper into 2011

Foreclosure sales were once rare. In some markets now, they make up 20 percent to more than half of all sales.

If you are a long-term homeowner who has kept up on your mortgage payments, you need to get that message out. This is your key advantage over a much lower-priced foreclosure, especially in light of the robosigning mess.

The buyer knows who he or she is buying the home from — no title issues here.

You can bet savvy buyers these days are going to come in with a stack of comps, many of them rock-bottom foreclosures.

Provide your own market analysis, one that can help highlight the challenges facing foreclosed properties.

Your first report should be comparable homes sold in the past few months, with foreclosures broken out separately if mentioned at all.

The second should detail homes currently on the market. That will help you frame the decision on favorable terms: Buyers should consider homes like yours instead of foreclosures.

The aim is to sell your home and maybe come away with a small gain. Forget about making a killing. Few homeowners who are current on their mortgage can match a foreclosure price.

Buyers are still looking for low prices. Take a look at what other nondistressed properties are selling for in your neighborhood and then price below them.

Drive home the point that the price is the price — with foreclosures the bank can take a better offer right up to the day of the closing.

Many buyers haven’t a clue about what it takes to buy a foreclosed home.

In many cases, individual buyers don’t stand a chance as they end up competing with investors ready to pay cash.

If a buyer or agent doesn’t know this, enlighten him or her. There is a significant percentage of buyers (that) could not buy a foreclosure if they wanted to.

When all else fails, call an expert. Call a real estate professional to help you get your home sold. Going it alone, ESPECIALLY in this market, could be the most foolish decision you ever made.

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Tips to Improve Your Home Sale Chances

Selling your home this spring? Here are a few tips to improve your chances of a sale.

HomeGain.com recently surveyed nearly 1,000 real estate agents, asking them to identify the top 12 do-it-yourself home improvements that can help sell a home faster. Cleaning and de-cluttering ranked as highest return on investment, no doubt in part because it was the least expensive. Its cousin, home staging, which largely involves removing unneeded furniture and other decorations, came in second.

According to the HomeGain survey, the top five home improvements that Realtors recommend to home sellers based on cost and return on investment (from highest to lowest ROI) are:

  1. 1. Cleaning and de-cluttering ($200 cost / $1,700 price increase / 872% ROI)
  2. Home staging ($300 cost / $1,780 price increase / 586% ROI)
  3. Lightening and brightening ($230 cost / $1,300 price increase / 572% ROI)
  4. Landscaping ($320 cost / $1,500 price increase / 473% ROI)
  5. Repairing plumbing ($385 cost / $1,250 price increase / 327% ROI)

Cleaning and de-cluttering continues to rank as the top suggested home improvement (since the survey was originally conducted in 2000), recommended by 98 percent of Realtors, costing less than $200 and returning a value of nearly $1,700 to the home’s sale price, or an 872% return on investment.

Rounding out the top 12, the list of low cost, do-it-yourself home improvements includes: updating electrical, replacing or shampooing carpets, painting interior walls, repairing damaged floors, updating kitchen, painting outside of home, and updating bathrooms.

The home improvement projects with the highest price increases to a home’s resale value is Updating the Kitchen ($1,200 cost / $2,850 price increase), followed by Painting the Outside of the Home ($900 cost / $1,815 price increase) and Home Staging ($300 cost / $1,780 price increase). Most of these projects involve the interior of the home.

It is important to recognize that these steps alone will not sell a home. Talk to us, we can offer more suggestions and tips.

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Home and Commercial Inspections in the Columbia SC area is our specialty! Every year we help hundreds of clients save tens of thousands of dollars, by responsibly finding and exposing conditions that threaten property, value and safety. To learn how we may be able to serve you, please click and read, or call 803-261-5810.

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