Home Sellers : Page 7

3 “Must Do’s” Before Listing Your Home

March 10, 2020 By Scott Sandberg Leave a Comment

How to make sure every first impression is a good one.

First impressions are incredibly important in real estate (and everywhere else, actually). Home sellers should strive to make potential buyers feel welcome, comfortable and able to picture themselves living in the home.

How do you do that? Start by taking a careful look at your home through the eyes of a potential buyer. What jumps out at you first? Is there anything that could be a turn off, or signal potential problems? By going through each room in your home with this type of critical eye, you’ll be well on your way to creating a “picture perfect” environment for potential buyers (important, as photos are often a buyer’s first introduction to your home).

With all that said, what are some things you can do immediately to make your home more appealing to buyers? Let’s take a look:

Get the Pets Under Control
This means tackling 3 key areas: odors, clutter and containment.

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Unfamiliar Words You May Hear During Your Real Estate Transaction

March 2, 2020 By Scott Sandberg Leave a Comment

A quick look at some common real estate jargon.

Every industry has it’s own jargon, or, language that’s fairly specific to a particular business. Real estate is no different. But with so much going on in a typical real estate transaction, and tight timelines to get it all done, it can be difficult to stop and get a handle on exactly what some words mean.

Here are a few words you might hear during a typical real estate sale, and what they mean:

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3 Ways to Save When Listing Your Home

January 27, 2020 By Scott Sandberg Leave a Comment

With a little foresight and planning, you may be able to save on closing costs and other expenses when you sell your home.

Closing costs are additional fees associated with selling real property. Fees include things like deed stamps (essentially, a tax on the value of the property), title insurance, appraisals, courier fees and the like. Both buyers and sellers have closing costs they will need to pay, and those costs can range anywhere between approximately 2% and 6% of the sale price.

Fortunately, there are a few things you can do as a seller to reduce your closing costs:

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Walden Chase Market Update

January 3, 2020 By Scott Sandberg Leave a Comment

A few key stats from 2019 for the Walden Chase community.

30 homes sold in Walden Chase in 2019, and there were 37 new listings that came to market over the year.

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Median sale price worked out to $318,000, nearly a 5% increase over 2018.

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0,604500.00,0,644000.00,525000.00,467700.00,522500.00,547500.00,433000.00,0,505000.00,620000.00

Average number of days on market was 71, down from 120 days in 2018.

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If you’re a Walden Chase resident, keep an eye out for a postcard from us detailing some December, 2019, sales stats. And if you have questions about the market, or market value of your home, give us a call or fill out the form below:

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3 Things That (On Their Own) Don’t Guarantee a Home Sale

October 19, 2019 By Scott Sandberg Leave a Comment

Silver bullets are hard to come by in any industry. And real estate is no exception. There’s no one tactic that will always lead to a sale.

Sellers can be, let’s say, unreceptive, to this fact, however. They may have been told by a friend, co-worker, relative or neighbor that, “If your agent would just do X, you’ll have your home sold in an instant…worked for me.”

And, maybe it did work for them. But their house is not the same as your house. Their neighborhood is not the same as your neighborhood. Their pricing strategy & motivation is not the same as your pricing strategy/motivation. The market then, is not the market now. And so on and so on…

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How to make sure every first impression is a good one.

A quick look at some common real estate jargon.

With a little foresight and planning, you may be able to save on closing costs and other expenses when you sell your home.

A few key stats from 2019 for the Walden Chase community.

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