Home Selling Price

How to get the best price for your home

Although your home selling price is tied to the selling price of other homes in your neighborhood, there are numerous ways you can increase the perceived value of your home in the buyer's mind.

Add Value to Your Listing

If yours is a three-bedroom home in a middle-class neighborhood, its basic value will be approximately the same as what other three bedroom homes in the area are selling for. But a buyer may be willing to pay more for your house if he or she can assume your current mortgage, or if you are prepared to provide Seller financing.

Start by comparing your home to similar homes recently sold in your vicinity, and then find ways to add value. For example, show a home inspector's report (as discussed in Chapter 4 of the FSBO How-To e-book), proving that the house has just been inspected and everything is in A-1 condition.

Plan around the Seasons

Keep in mind that you can usually achieve a higher home selling price in the spring or summer, because that is when more people move than at any other time of the year. 

Also, nothing makes a house look better than a beautiful spring day.

This holds true most anywhere, except in year-round sunny states like Florida and Hawaii.

Clean, and Stage your Home to Sell

The better you can make your home look, the better price you'll inevitably get for it at closing.   Stage your house to sell.  This might mean getting a professional stager to come in and give you a few tips.  This minimal investement can add a lot of perceived value to your home.

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