Guide to Selling Your Home: Increasing Resale Value
The 3 P's of Increasing Your Home’s Resale Value
When it comes to selling your Treasure Coast home the best way to get more for your property and sell it in the shortest time possible is to work on the 3 P's of home sales:
Preparation - getting the right things ready so buyers will value your home’s features.
Price - pricing your home to avoid Limbo Land, a place where homes sit on the market indefinitely.
Promotion - marketing your home to get your home found online and generate buyer interest.
One of the most important of the 3 P's is Preparation. The lack of preparing the right things is the biggest mistake home sellers make.
Have you ever looked at homes for sale online and seen bad photos? In many cases, those homes are just like yours and had the potential to look great (and attract buyers), but they lacked two important factors in homes sales preparation.
So what are those two factors? Staging & Photography. Having your home staged and professional photos taken so your home can be represented to best attract buyers is the difference between a real estate brokerage that cares versus one that just wants to sell your home to the first person who comes along. Be sure to choose a listing agent who works with home sellers to prepare their homes to be put on the market.
This post has been authored by Eric Slifkin, REALTOR® serving Stuart Florida and the Treasure Coast. You can reach me at 888-288-1765, or visit my Web site. As your resource for information on new or resale homes throughout the Treasure Coast, please be sure to contact me about any home you may find on the Web, yard sign or ad and I will research the property, arrange showings and handle all the details.
