How Are You Preventing Your Home From Selling?

Chester County Real Estate Agent Matt Fetick talks about the importance of pricing your home correctly within the right range in order to sell your home at the desired price in the quickest amount of time.

There is a wide selection of top-quality homes to choose from throughout Chester County and Northern Delaware. If you're interested in looking at all the current homes that are listed, GO HERE to perform a Full Home Search, or if you're considering putting your home on the market, CLICK HERE to obtain a Free Home Value Report. For any other questions you have regarding Chester County Real Estate or the value of your home, please feel free to call me at (610) 427-4420.

When people put their home for sale on the market, their goal is to get the most money possible in the shortest amount of time. However, this often doesn't happen. There are many different reasons homes don't sell, but most often it has to do with the price of the home.

Most sellers make the mistake of thinking they need a lot of room to negotiate with the buyer, but in reality they don't. If a home buyer comes to your home and the list price doesn't match up with what other similar homes are at, they will walk away and either forget about the home or check for price reductions. During that time, your home is just sitting there, stagnant on the market, while other homes get bought up at market value.

You don't want this to happen, so when you are going to put your home on the market, listing it somewhere within 3-4% of your expected final sale price usually leaves a lot of room for negotiation. Under-pricing your home may not be a bad strategy either, although it's risky. Often buyers will bid each other up and the market will correct the under-pricing.

Aside from pricing, the other thing that really impacts your home's value is its condition. This is the one thing you can really make a difference with. Over time, your home has become your personal living space, unique to your family. Future home buyers want to see themselves living in your home, and you do too. If they can't do that because your home isn't properly staged, your home will likely linger on the market much longer than it needs to.

If you have any other questions about things that will delay the sale of your home, please give us a call or send us an email. We would love to discuss with you how to position your property for the most money in the shortest amount of time.

How Do You Get the Best First Impression?

Chester County Real Estate Agent Matt Fetick stresses the importance of professional staging in making a positive first impression with potential home buyers, emphasizing how his real estate team excels at professionally staging homes in order to leave the best possible impression for buyers who are viewing the property for the first time.

There is a wide selection of top-quality homes to choose from throughout Chester County and Northern Delaware. If you're interested in looking at all the current homes that are listed, GO HERE to perform a Full Home Search, or if you're considering putting your home on the market, CLICK HERE to obtain a Free Home Value Report. For any other questions you have regarding Chester County Real Estate or the value of your home, please feel free to call me at (610) 427-4420.

Today I want to talk to you about first impressions. You only get one chance at a first impression, that goes for homes as well. We want to talk to you about what we do to make sure our seller's homes have the best possible first impression with buyers.

Whenever we put a home on the market, we rely heavily on a professional, certified home stager to help present your home in its best light. For potential home buyers to want to pull the trigger on a purchase, they need to be able to see their family living and thriving in the home. Staging is all about helping the buyer picture themselves, and their family, living in your home. When you create this feeling, you end up getting the best offers.

When you list with us, we will send one of our stagers out to your home to let you know what you can improve in your home to have the best possible return. The best thing we can do is provide you with these resources so you don't have to do any guess work on your home sale.

85% of home buyers say the first time they saw the home they purchased was online. The online showing is the 1st showing in today's world and for your home to succeed in this showing, 3 things need to happen:

1. Staging has to be done well.
2. Outside curb appeal must also be done well.
3. You HAVE to use a professional photographer.
 
If you are thinking about putting your home on the market, please give us a call first. We would love to offer you a free consultation with one of our professional stagers to let you know what you need to do to get your home ready to sell for the most money possible. We look forward to hearing from you soon!