How to Sell Your Home—Agent Secrets Revealed

Real estate agents use industry secrets to sell homes, but I want to share those secrets with you today!

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There are some secret tricks of the trade that most real estate agents don’t want you to know about. However, I think you should have this important information.

First of all, staging is incredibly important. Staging also changes from season to season. The stagers that we use for our clients know how to position items and use furniture as it applies to the season. For example, in the summer, stagers recommend smaller pieces of furniture to make the home seem more open, light, and cool.

Another secret home selling tool is fresh cut grass. Believe it or not, you should cut your grass every time your house has a showing. Studies have shown that fresh cut grass it a subtle way to help sell your home. Buyers enjoy the look and smell of a freshly mowed yard.

Your pricing strategy is incredibly important as well. If you want to put your home out there at just above or below a price range break, it’s important to consider which option is best. For example, if your home is worth $300,000, you may want to price it at $305,000 or $299,999. Both of those numbers will work completely differently in the market. You need to work with an agent who understands that and can guide you to the right pricing strategy.

There can actually be a bad time to put your home on the market.

There can actually be a bad time to put your house on the market. The week that school lets out or the week school starts back up both tend to be very slow, which is understandable. After all, people are worried about getting kids in and out of school. If you list your home during one of those weeks, you’ll lose some momentum, as there won’t be many people looking at your home when it first comes on the market.

Not everyone knows about that little trick, so we make sure to watch out for that when working with our clients.

If there is a bad time to put your house on the market, is there a perfect month to list your home? Although anytime is a great time to put your home on the market, June is technically the best month to list your home.

Hopefully, these home selling secrets will help you succeed no matter when you decide to list your home.

If you have any other questions about putting your home on the market, just give me a call or send me an email. I would be happy to help you!