15 Tips for Fast Sales
15 Tips to Sell Your Home Faster
1. Hire the Right Realtor
Your choice of realtor is arguably the most important variable influencing the speed of your home sale. Although there are faster methods of selling a home, like to a real estate investor, iBuyer or cash for homes companies, you will likely sacrifice between 10 and 30 percent of market value taking that route. Choosing a real estate company that specializes in maximizing home sale price while also selling homes fast is the preferable choice for most home sellers. 72SOLD has a proven system that garners higher-than-average offers within eight days of listing.
2. Price Your Property Right
Price is often the biggest hurdle to selling a home quickly. Homeowners understandably want to get as much as possible for their home, but pricing your property at the higher end of what comparable homes in your local MLS are selling for can result in a very slow home selling process. Being realistic about your asking price is likely the second most important factor after your choice of realtor.
3. Enhance Your Curb Appeal
The big secret of curb appeal is you can often maximize your ROI by spending less. Sometimes just cleaning the front of your home is enough. Mowing grass, trimming trees and shrubs, replacing burned-out lightbulbs on exterior lights and pulling weeds can make your home a presentable, blank canvas for home shoppers.
4. Declutter
Home staging does not require a lot of fancy, upscale artwork, rugs or expensive furniture. Tidiness and simplicity often pay the greatest dividends in the home selling process. If you don’t have the budget for staging or need to continue living in your home while it’s being listed, you should make an effort to declutter as much as possible.
5. Depersonalize
The goal is for people who view your home to be able to imagine their life in your space. One of the best ways to do this is to depersonalize your home’s interior. This means taking down family photos, heirlooms or knickknacks you’ve gathered over the years. Interior decoration that is all about you and your family may feel foreign to strangers and can make it harder for them to picture making the space their own.
6. Deep Clean
Deep cleaning is one of the most affordable and reliable ways to make your home more attractive to people who visit for a tour or walkthrough. Renting professional-grade equipment and watching some how-to deep cleaning videos on YouTube can save you some money and allow you to make your home appear much more inviting and move-in ready to home shoppers.
7. Address Odors
Few attributes can more quickly turn off home shoppers than unpleasant odors. If your home is permeated with particularly pungent and hard-to-remove odors, like smells from smoking, cooking or pets, you should get started removing them as soon as possible. The more time you have before showings, the better.
8. Upgrade Lighting
Lighting fixtures are some of the more affordable home improvements that can positively impact home sale price. Improved lighting can also make spaces look bigger and more inviting, allowing viewers to more easily imagine what they can do with the space.
9. Neutral Paint Colors
Safe paint choices, like white, beige or soft taupe, are ideal when you’re trying to sell your home. They won’t turn off home shoppers and will make it easier for homebuyers to either leave interior and exterior paint as is or make their own design choices after they buy.
10. Create a Welcoming Entryway
First impressions are important when you are trying to sell your home. An entrance into a home sets the foundation for the rest of the home tour and provides an opportunity to establish a positive perception from the very start.
11. Highlight Storage Space
Although it’s not the flashiest attribute of the typical house, storage is a highly valued feature for many modern home shoppers. Make a point to highlight good storage if your home is lucky enough to have it.
12. Make Necessary Repairs
Only make repairs that need to be made to sell your home fast while maximizing its value and your equity. Avoid investing in high-cost repairs that won’t result in a near full ROI, especially if those improvements won’t positively impact the speed of sale.
13. Stage the Home
Staging doesn’t have to be expensive to be effective. Be sure to discuss staging with your realtor. They can explain steps you can take for DIY staging or make recommendations for affordable professional staging services if necessary.
14. Professional Photography
Good photography of your home’s exterior and interior can be vital for online listings and marketing efforts. Simple things like lighting and angles can be the difference between making a small home look spacious and airy or cramped and claustrophobic.
15. Effective Marketing
Your home can only sell quickly if it’s put in front of interested, qualified buyers in your area. The team at 72SOLD has a proven system for maximizing home sale price more quickly than competing real estate companies. If you’d like to learn more about our comprehensive and highly effective marketing process, you can also fill out our form to get our price recommendation for your home today.
