Choose a professional agent who has sustained experience in the industry and is highly knowledgeable about the process and tricks involved in selling homes under diverse conditions.
LIST THE RIGHT PRICE
You want to complete the sale as quickly as possible and thus need to arrive at an accurate price for the property, rather than experimenting with high figures and later cutting it if the home does not sell. A new listing carries the highest impact when it is first published. The best offers will likely come relatively quickly. A higher-range price may dissuade offers, and cutting the price later is not the best strategy. Price cuts raise more questions in buyers than they attract offers. It is in the early period of your listing that you are most likely to get the fair value of the home. You must price your home strategically and correctly to obtain the best offers, and ultimately, a good selling price. A Virginia realty agency reported that homes in August of one year within their first week on the market sold for an average of 2.08% above list price. Homes that grew stale for months sold for an average of 11.53% below the original list price. A home that does not sell and remains listed for a lengthy period raises questions in buyers of why a sale did not occur, and suspicious that there may be something not obviously wrong with the property. In listing the right price at the start of your marketing efforts, the best practice is to enlist the help and advice of a real estate professional or agent and gather input from recently closed home sales in the local area. A real estate agent should also be able to estimate how long the property might remain on the market at various price points. When it comes to finding a buyer, pricing your home according to accurate data in comparable real sales is crucial to making the
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