When foreclosure looms, many homeowners try to sell their homes. For them, the goal is not just to get the home sold, but to do it quickly. Foreclosure rates are the highest in buyer's markets, when homes take a longer than average time to sell. What's a homeowner to do? Get aggressive, and get your home sold fast!
As a seller, you control the only three factors that influence whether your home sells quickly: pricing, marketing and condition. Here are some easy steps and insider secrets to make your home fly off the market in record time!
1. Don't try to salvage equity that does not exist. The fact that you bought your home for thousands more than homes are currently selling for in your neighborhood is irrelevant to the current fair market value of your home.
2. Don't overprice your home. Get clear about what you want. If you'd like to get your home sold, make sure you price it aggressively and that means low. If your home is overpriced, some buyers won't even see it because it will appear to be out of their price range. Other buyers will focus on seeing properties whose sellers seem more realistic about pricing. Your house will sit on the market longer than it should and then the lowballers will crawl out of the woodwork.
3.Get real about what your home is worth. Have your real estate agent prepare a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) that shows recently sold, similar homes in your neighborhood. If you're serious about getting it sold fast, take the sales prices (not the list prices) from the most recently sold homes in your area.
4.Make sure you have an accurate understanding of how low you can go. A buyer is not going to pay a premium price for your home just because that's what you owe. If you owe more than your home is worth, give your lender a ring, complete a short sale application (see How to Get Your Lender to Agree to a Short Sale) and ask your lender to give you some indication of how low a sale price they will accept. Conform your list price to that (don't forget to take closing costs into account); a short sale blemishes your credit but not as badly as a foreclosure does!
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