Ready to sell your home and move on to greener pastures? Have you already picked your next home? Frustrated because your current home hasn't sold yet?
Many home owners experience the anxiety of wanting to sell their current home fast to purchase their new home. The "key" to being successful at doing both is pricing your current home to sell fast! Key factors in understanding what price is right are:
- Your homes condition
- Comparable homes sold or selling in your market
- Your homes presentation, and the demand
For example, if you have a home that has been upgraded to compete with newer homes (I.e. new fixtures, new floors, new kitchen, etc.) you'll have a much better chance of attracting more buyers.
Many new home buyers want homes that are "move in" ready with little or no renovating to do. If your home looks like a model because it is decorated well, this is visually very pleasing to perspective buyers, and also helps them think of ideas for making the home their own.
Next, don't wait for an inspection to fix the obvious. If it's already broken, just get it fixed. Buyers appreciate a clean and simple inspection even if the inspector finds little things they most likely won't bother with them. On the flip side, if you do not have the funds to upgrade and the best you can do is clean the place up, then price based on that. This will help those buyers who love a fixer upper to have the budget to do so!
