There’s an undeniable truth about residential real estate: it’s challenging to accurately determine the right asking price for a home! While every year tens of thousands of houses, condos and multifamily properties successfully sell on MLSPIN, the main MLS serving Massachusetts, there are also tens of thousands of listings each year that fail to sell [...]
Home Seller Tips and Advice
Proper support and early planning are the keys to making your Massachusetts home sale easier and more successful.
A home sale is a complex undertaking even in the best of circumstances. And the home selling process is often loaded with emotions, sometimes as much as you’ll experience during other of life’s milestone events including marriage, the birth of a child and the loss of a loved one.
There will be people looking at your home, papers to sign and countless issues to be settled, all while you prepare to leave the familiar and engage life in your new surroundings.
Because the process of marketing and selling a home sale can be deceivingly difficult and typically comes at a time of great emotion and change, it’s important to get things done correctly – the first time!
Home sellers need to undertake proper pre-sale planning. You should aim to carefully prepare both yourself and your home for the most advantageous sale possible. Your goal should be to identify what alternatives are realistically available to you that will advance both you and your home towards a more successful transaction.
The best way to do all this is to start your pre-sale planning early and engage the assistance of a caring and knowledgeable Realtor®. A good Realtor® who offers you state-of-the-art systems and top-notch support will make home selling easier and more profitable for you.
The following posts are presented to help introduce you to home seller tips and advice – some of the keys to a successful home sale.
Feel free to contact us with any home selling questions - no matter how far in the future your sale might be.
The earlier you start your pre-sale planning, the better your chances for a truly successful home sale!
From the category archives:
For Sellers
Most home sellers want to know what transaction costs they’ll encounter with the sale of their home. It makes sense to know ahead of time how much it costs to sell your home in Massachusetts! Some home selling expenses shouldn’t come as much of a shock. For example, your lender expects you to pay off [...]
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Before you spend big money fixing up your home simply to sell it, think about the likely payback before you undertake any projects. You might be surprised how poorly some popular home improvements fare in terms of increasing your home’s resale value in relation to the money spent. If you are planning on selling your [...]
Massachusetts mandates that every home have working smoke detectors and carbon monoxide (CO) detectors. The state and mortgage lenders back that up by requiring that every home be inspected by the local fire department to assure compliance prior to the sale of the home. But even if you are not moving anytime soon, it makes [...]
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Because so many Massachusetts residents encounter the arcane realm of septic systems and MA’s Title 5 regulations only when buying or selling a home, it’s helpful to have easy access in one place to detailed information on the topic. Easy access to detailed information Look no further! The links below will give you a lot [...]
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MA home sales in November rose an impressive 20% over year ago levels, according to data maintained by MLSPIN, the dominant MLS in Massachusetts. The rise extends a rebound in sales volume that has developed over the past few months. If the recovery in home sales continues into 2012, it may mark the Bay State’s [...]
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Here’s your chance to be one of the first to visit Warren’s new Facebook page! “Moving West of Boston” is all about helping you get the most out of living in the vibrant suburbs west of Boston. Whether you’ve lived in the region for years or are just in the early stages of relocating to [...]
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A very promising future for America in the 21st Century may be taking shape, at least if some surprising trends play out as some are predicting. Another American Century? The Telegraph Media Group of the UK just published an interesting article on why we may all soon be reaping the benefits of a radically improving [...]
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Standard & Poors announced yesterday that Greater Boston home prices rose an impressive 5% over the last two months. The startling news is contained in the non-seasonally adjusted S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston which climbed 2.3% in June, after leaping 2.7% the month before. Good news tempered by seasonally adjusted results Although the 5% [...]
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Home sales rebounded strongly across Massachusetts in July, rising 19% from their levels of one year ago. July’s healthy sales figures mark the first notable pick up in housing demand in the Bay State since the Massachusetts real estate market essentially tanked last summer after the expiration of the Federal home buyer tax credits. MA [...]
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