The Steps of Selling Your Home
The Steps of Selling Your Home
The process of selling your home can be emotional and at times overwhelming. Before you decide to put your home on the market, it can be helpful to review the steps of the home selling process with your trusted Realtor to ensure you feel prepared and confident as you prepare your home to go to market. If you’re planning on selling your home, read on for the timeline you can reference as you're going through the process!
Prepare your home to sell
Depending on the time of year you want to sell your home, there are some considerations to keep in mind. For example, if your goal is to list your home by the start of the spring selling season, typically early February, then it’s best to take exterior photos in the late summer, which can be six months prior. Taking exterior photos when the grass is green and lush and the leaves are still on the trees can significantly affect how a buyer perceives your home online.
Closer to when you plan to sell, assess your home with a pair of fresh eyes to determine the repairs that need to be made and hire painters to paint any spaces that need touch-ups or to create a more neutral space. This is also the time to make the repairs you’ve been delaying.
Contact a trusted real estate agent
Investing time to find the real estate agent who is the right fit for you is worth the search. Working with an agent you trust and who is a good personality fit is key to a positive homebuying experience! Turn to your friends and family for their recommendations and interview the agent before you start working together. In addition, ask about the proposed marketing plans, their knowledge of the area, and any questions or concerns you may have regarding selling your home.
Learn about the local market
Your agent will have researched your local market to understand housing values, the amount of inventory available and how long homes have been on the market. Reviewing this information with your agent will help you feel comfortable with your asking price and give you an idea of how quickly you can expect your home to sell.
Clean and stage your home
Deep cleaning and staging your home will ensure the house photographs well. High-quality photographs are essential to successfully selling a space, so the home should be presented well and ready to be photographed. In some cases, hiring a cleaning company is a simple solution to insure the home is in tip-top shape prior to photography. Staging the home is not always necessary, but I would highly recommend hiring a staging company if your home will be vacant during the time it is on the market.
Home Appraisal and Inspection
Once you accept an offer on the house, a home appraiser will come on behalf of the buyer’s mortgage lender to appraise the property. Also, a home inspector will come on behalf of the buyer to inspect the house.
Sign the closing documents
As the seller, you won’t need to attend the closing but must sign closing documents. Once the buyer closes on your home, the property is officially theirs. Congratulations on the sale of your home!
Feeling ready to list your home on the market? Contact me today to get the process started!
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