Why Won't My House Sell?

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You are in a hurry to sell your home and are hoping for a quick sale at a top sale price. You placed your house on the market in the beginning of the spring and hoped to move by the beginning of the summer. It has been two weeks since any potential buyer has looked at the home. Why isn't the home selling or even being shown to potential homebuyers?

To ensure that you sell your house, hire a real estate agent. Home selling is best handled by the experts in the field. The real estate agent may need to reevaluate the marketing plan to sell your home. Here are some tips to get more activity on your home and hopefully an offer enabling you to keep to your summer plans.

Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
The real estate agent lists all details regarding your home in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) which reaches a worldwide audience. Review with the real estate agent the details on your home MLS listing. Ensure that all the details are correct. Refresh the wording in order to gain some new activity. Review the pictures of the house to see if the home is presented attractively and with lots of light.

Real estate agents
Real estate sales are best handled by knowledgeable real estate agents. Choose an agent that has many years of experience. Before hiring a real estate agent, review the track record of his home sales. How long do homes sit on the market? Ask the real estate agent what strategies are used to handle homes that are not selling as quickly as desired. Inquire as to what marketing and advertising tools are at the real estate agent's disposal. How much will the agent spend on advertising? A top real estate agent will be forthcoming as to the game plan of selling and presenting a home for sale.

Virtual tours and open houses
An excellent marketing tool used by top real estate agents is a virtual tour of your home or an open house. A virtual tour of the home opens access to all of the key features of your home twenty four hours a day for anyone searching for a home. The real estate agent will send a photographer to photograph panoramic shots of each and every room in the home.

Be sure to have your house clean, with the drapes open to let in the most light possible. The internet will allow your home to be showcased on a virtual tour for potential homebuyers. A virtual tour option may be the trick you need to sell your home. Make sure you thoroughly de-clutter your home, as you would for a home staging. This way the potential buyer can picture themselves living in it, without all of your personal belongings getting in the way of their own vision.

A traditional approach to selling homes is an open house. An open house may bring curious neighbors to view your home. Statistically, open homes have brought in real buyers who can potentially make a quick offer to purchase your home. On the day of the open house, have only the real estate agent present to show potential homebuyers around your home. If you have pets, take them on a day trip. By the time you return you will have had some activity on the home which will translate to a sale.

Pricing your home to sell
In order to sell your home you will need to price the home to market demands. A home that is overpriced will not appeal to buyers and will be overlooked. A home that is priced correctly will not get stale and will have the opposite effect, gaining more traffic and home viewings.