Generally, a homeowner wouldn’t want their home to stay too long on the market without any offers. This is why pricing your home right, and positioning the listing for a quick sale is super important for a great, positive selling experience.
But it’s not always the case. There are a lot of other factors that promote a home into the ‘prepared and ready to sell fast’ stage.
Let’s take a look at 6 ways you can position your listing for a quick sale.
1. Understand your home’s value
By understanding the value of your home, you can price it right at the first time itself. This will position it for a quick sale. How can you do that?
> Automated valuation model
By using an automated valuation model (AVM), you can know a good price to start with. AVMs use data from local real estate sales and give a quick estimate of a home’s value.
> Neighborhood comps
You can also look at neighborhood comps. Comps is short for comparable features in recently sold listings (in and around your area). To find comps in your neighborhood, a real estate agent will look at homes that are similar in size, location, condition, and features.
Read more about comps and home appraisals here.
2. Make small improvements
You can look into small home improvements which could add onto a quick sale factor. Some of them can be:
- A fresh coat of paint (always helps!)
- Ensuring all door handles are secure and don’t wiggle when you turn them (in some cases it’s a turn off when a buyer is looking at the home for sale)
- Remove personal photos so the buyer can more easily see themselves in the home
- Decluttering and a good deep cleaning of the home
- Moving some furniture and personal items to storage to clear out some space
3. Hire a home stager
Home stagers don’t simply rearrange your furniture. They are skilled in understanding how to tap into buyer aspirations. They create a space in which buyers can visualize themselves at home.
Home staging services can range from helping rearrange and style the furniture and accessories that you already have and move all the way to renting furniture, painting rooms, and adding different accessories. Typically, home staging services start around $770 and can cost as much as $2,855. The price is highly dependent on the size of the home and how much staging you’ll need.
4. Be realistic about your home
Selling a home is often an emotional experience that can signify excitement or loss and everything in between. The emotional attachment you have to your home can impact your perception of its value. You have to take emotion out of the equation.
Because a buyer will not understand, or not want to know what the home meant to you; even the effort you have put in for its upkeep.
A buyer wants to move on and start living in their new home. If you price it right at the outset, you won’t have to deal with as many negotiations, nor do you have to drop the price after weeks or months on the market.
5. Get agent input
It’s always good to have a full-time, professional agent who will look at comps, analyze the home, its condition and features, AND help to price it appropriately.
Your agent can also offer suggestions about upgrades, fixes, and staging that can position your home to sell faster. They will be in tune with what local buyers are looking for and can advise you on the right steps to take.
6. Use Flyhomes to position your listing for a quick sale
Flyhomes helps you sell in a snap with our streamlines process where we’ll get your home ready to show to potential buyers—this includes having it professionally cleaned and properly staged, taking professional photos, and creating virtual tours.
If after all of the work to position your home for a quick sale, it still doesn’t sell within 180 days, we’ll buy the home from you and give you any profit we make once it sells and we recover our costs if you use our Buy Before You Sell program.
All of these tips can help to position your home for a quick sale.
With Flyhomes, you sell your home quickly and move into your new home even quicker. Sign up with Flyhomes and speak to an agent about how it can be done.
