When it’s time to sell your home, conventional wisdom says selling in the prime season, which begins in spring and lasts through summer, is the best way to go. With the warmer weather the yard will look its best and potential buyers will be out in force to get a new house in order before the next school calendar begins. But that is usually the time of the largest home inventory. Your competition.
But not this year. In March, San Diego Real Estate Inventory decreased 15.0 percent for Detached homes and 25.8 percent for Attached homes compared to last year.
Homes are selling faster. Days on Market decreased 14.0 percent for Detached homes and 26.2 percent for Attached homes.
Mortgage rates continued to fall this week and dipped to new 2016 lows and the lowest rates since May 2013, according to a weekly survey of national mortgage rates by Freddie Mac. San Diego Home Buyers want to get into the market.
If you want to sell your home, here are seven tips to sell your home.
1. Pay attention to curb appeal
Adding colorful flowers, trimming trees and bushes, Fresh mulch, or grass. Landscaping is a small cost, yet is one of the most important things to do to help sell a house. The good thing is it generally just requires some sweat equity and an afternoon to turn a boring front lawn into a beautiful work of art.
2. Fresh Paint
You can’t go wrong with fresh paint on trims, doors, or windows. You’d be surprised at how new you can make a house look with just fresh paint.
3. Pare down possessions
Pack up your winter clothes, so your closets look bigger. Many buyers always look at closets and visualize their clothes or shoes in them. Clear fridge of all magnets as well.
4. Keep it cool
For every showing or open house, make sure that the air conditioning is working and turned on prior to any guests arriving. You want your home feel like a cool oasis in the heat of summer.
5. Clean the kitchen
Prospective buyers spend a lot of time in the kitchen at open houses and showings – and you can bet they are going to open up the oven to see how large it is. Make sure it’s fresh and clean for them.
6. Clean the carpet
You may try to steam clean them yourself using a Rug Doctor or you can bite the bullet and have a professional take care of it.
7. Double check your Realtor's online marketing
Once you have cleaned, de-cluttered, worked on curb appeal of your home, the next key to sell your home is Web Appeal, your agent’s online marketing. It is extremely critical that your home is not just found on the Internet, it also has to be noticed (see more info here)!
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