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:
If you’ve been wondering when the Massachusetts real estate market will start rising, 2012 looks to be the year. That’s the consensus among 111 housing and economic experts surveyed recently by the financial and technology company Macromarkets. The survey calls for MA home prices to fall in 2011, followed by higher real estate prices in [...]
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You might have missed recent news reports detailing positive developments in the Massachusetts economy. This good news has been easy to miss because so much of the news media’s focus over the past few weeks has been on the royal wedding, the death of Osama Bin Laden and continued gloomy reports on the US housing [...]
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Greater Boston home prices took a tumble in the most recent release of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. The decline in Boston home prices is encouraging news for those skeptical local home buyers who continue to sit on the fence this spring hoping for lower Boston home values ahead. 2 versions of the Case-Shiller Index [...]
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It would take 10 and a half months for all the single family homes currently for sale in Massachusetts to find buyers according to data maintained by MLSPIN, the largest MLS system in the Bay State. That’s a nearly 17% jump in housing inventory levels from last year at this time. 2010 housing inventory reduced [...]
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February’s brutal weather appears to have played havoc with the Massachusetts real estate market. Home sales activity in MA last month plummeted as the winds howled and the snow and ice mounted. Worse than 2009 Closed home sales volume in February fell below the previous low for the last decade seen back in February 2009 [...]
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Greater Boston home sale prices are stabilizing and even rising a little according to seasonally adjusted home price data released this week by Standard & Poors. Seasonally adjusted home sale prices in the metro area rose 0.8% in December, the most recent month covered by the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston. First rise in [...]
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While both December and January saw increased home sales in Massachusetts, the inventory of homes for sale in MA rose in February as home buyers fought cold temperatures and deep snow to keep the Massachusetts real estate market moving forward. Don’t read too much into inventory rise The supply of available homes in MA this [...]
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Many people discover their roof has an ice dam only when they see water dripping inside their home from a ceiling. That’s a bad feeling! Your first impulse may be to immediately call a roofer to have your roof fixed. But ice dams are caused by poor roof ventilation or improper insulation, not by faulty [...]
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January home sales in Massachusetts rose 6.7% from year-ago levels, making last month the best January in the Commonwealth since 2007 in terms of single family home sales volume. The January uptick in single family home sales in MA came on the heels of a widely-reported sales surge in the state last December. Price decline [...]
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January may mark the start of a new year, but for the real estate market in Massachusetts the first month of 2011 feels less like a new beginning and more like the “same ole same ole” in terms of the supply of homes for sale in MA. Home inventory levels on the rise The inventory [...]
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