If your current home isn’t quite meeting your needs anymore, it might be time to move up! Starter homes are in high demand, and although today’s fast-paced real estate market might ensure that you get quick offers when you put your home on the market, you want to make sure you get the best offers on your home. Check out our tips below to sell your current home fast and for a great price, so you can move up to a home that better fits your current needs!
Price Your Home Competitively
With home prices rising and your own emotional commitment to your home in your head, it can be easy to overprice your home. While this might not seem important at first (after all, potential buyers can always just offer less), consider the fact that many buyers won’t look at homes that they consider to be outside of their price range. Review your home’s market value, your location and other factors to determine a price that will get your home looked at and get the offers pouring in.
Clean and Declutter
When potential buyers enter your home, you want to be sure they see themselves living in it—not all of your stuff lying around! That’s why it’s so important to deep clean and declutter your home before you put it on the market. If you don’t have time to do it yourself, hire a cleaning service to get into all the nooks and crannies you might have avoided cleaning, and go through your things to donate or trash items you no longer need. Bonus—getting the decluttering out of the way makes it easier to pack once you sell your home and get ready to move into your next one!
Don’t Forget Curb Appeal
Buyers aren’t just hoping to buy your home, they’re buying what’s outside of it, too. Before your first showing, work on your curb appeal to up the wow factor for potential buyers arriving at your home. Add new sod, repaint your front door, replace your mailbox or just add some potted flowers on the porch. Anything you can do to make your home seem more welcoming and inviting can help you sell your home faster.
Hire a Real Estate Agent
One of the best things a homeowner can do to sell their home quickly, effortlessly and for a great price is to hire a trusted real estate agent to handle the sale. Although real estate agents will take a commission from your home purchase, in many ways they more than make up for it in the services they give sellers. A qualified real estate agent will:
- Help you price your home
- Take the reins on showing and staging your home for sale
- Lead you through the home sale process
- And much more
The NC Housing Finance Agency maintains a listing of preferred real estate agents who are trained on the ins and outs of our mortgage products at www.nchfa.com/home-buyers/find-real-estate-agent.
And if you’re ready to buy your new home, did you know that the NC Home Advantage Mortgage™ with up to 5% down payment assistance is available for move-up buyers, too? Learn more about how this mortgage product from the NC Housing Finance Agency can help you get into your next home at www.nchfa.com/home-buyers.
