Posts with tag 'tips for selling your home'
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Spring Cleaning Checklist for Home Sellers
If you own White Mountains real estate and you are planning to sell soon, spring is the perfect time to list your home. Buyers are more likely to shop for homes during spring. Your Peabody & Smith real estate agent has the expertise to help your home stand out to prospective buyers. Here's a handy checklist to help you spring into action to get your home ready for the prime selling season.
1. Eliminate clutter.
Put this all-important item first on your list. Getting rid of clutter is essential in several ways. First of all, clearing clutter exposes surfaces to make them easier to clean. Second, clutter-free rooms will make your house look larger. And third, buyers need to visualize themselves in the home you're listing. Eliminating personal...7
Is My Home Ready to Sell?
Are you thinking about selling your home? In today's market, it's true that properties priced closer to market value will sell first. In addition, the better "primed" your house is, the chances are it will show better than the next and therefore possibly sell before other similar properties. With the current market conditions and surplus of inventory, as agents we find the first time we take buyers out they are often shopping to remove homes from their list. Removing any homes that they recognize as not fitting their criteria and also those that don't show well, in short, those that don't leave a lasting impression. In the buyer's eyes, the care you show for your home can be an immediate correlation to how you have maintained your home. The servicing of the furnace, pumping of the septic, cleaning the chimneys. lawn mowing etc. Current service records and a house that is uncluttered and gleams will set yours apart and leave it at the top of their list to consider for a 2nd showing....