How To Sell Your Home For 17% More, 40% Faster This Spring

Comments(1) By •January 31st, 2009

 



Super Bowl Weekend traditionally marks the start of the Spring Buying Season in real estate.  Anecdotally, real estate agents will tell you that buyer activity tends to tick higher at this time of the year.


Meanwhile, with mortgage rates still trolling near all-time lows and Congress debating a first-time homebuyer tax credit, 2009 may bring out even more buyers than we’ve seen in the past.


Just having your home on the market may not be enough to attract an offer, though — the home has to have appeal.  That brings us to home staging — the process by which a homeowner re-organizes and re-presents his home to appeal to as many potential buyers as possible.


Home staging is part-science, part-art, and part-psychology.  Homebuyers tend to judge homes within the first 8 seconds of seeing them so making a quality first impression can mean the difference between getting multiple bids, and just getting a lot of foot traffic.


The 4-minute video gives some quick-and-easy tips, including:



  • Create more light in the home
  • Clean up the closets and thin them out
  • Remove the clutter from every room in the house

Even though home inventories are falling, supplies are still higher than in previous years.  Home sellers wanting to stand out in a crowd may want to consider staging their homes to help them sell more quickly. 


Staged homes sell for as much as 17% more money and as much as 40% faster than non-staged ones.

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    By Brendan From Team Tapper Realtors on February 2nd, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    Mike,
    I couldn’t agree more. Empty (non-stagged) houses are much harder to sell. Finding the right stager to bring in furniture that matches the style of the house is key.

    -Brendan

     

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