Yard improvements to sell your Houston home and landscaping will generally get you the biggest return on time and money invested. An added plus is that they usually cost much less than, say, an extensive kitchen update. According to some real estate experts, an investment in landscaping and yard improvements has the potential to yield … Continued
The Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is used throughout the real estate industry to help connect buyers and sellers. Sellers’ agents list properties with the local MLS, and buyers and their agents can browse the listings to find houses that interest them. In addition, 90% of buyers shop for houses online (at least initially), so it’s … Continued
If you’re thinking about selling your house in Houston, you’re probably asking this question: “How much work should I do to sell my Houston house?” That’s an easy one to answer because the answer is the same in every case: it depends. The amount of work you should do depends primarily on the area and … Continued
In answering the question “How much updating is needed to sell a house in Houston?” you do need to be careful whose advice you take. Misinformation can cost you a lot of time and money. The keys here are to stick to the basics and to address only those things that truly matter to potential … Continued
Taking the time and effort to prepare your property before putting your home’s listing out in the wild will make every remaining step of the sales process that much easier. With the goal of making your home the talk of the town, let’s go over 5 things you should do before selling your house in … Continued
While it’s important to keep a clean home the entire time it’s on the market, it feels like the largest part of selling your home involves the initial deep cleaning and reorganization. Let’s start your home sale off in the right direction by looking at 5 areas of your home to focus on when selling … Continued
As one of the least well-understood aspects of selling your home, closing costs tend to quickly eat away at the profits from selling your home. To gain a better grasp of how things will work for you once your home is sold, let’s go over what Houston home sellers should know about closing costs. What … Continued
It may appear simpler, more profitable, and enticing to take on the responsibilities of preparing and selling your home all on your own, but there are serious issues that could endanger the sale. To help put things into perspective, let’s go over 4 downsides of selling your home on your own in Houston: Pricing One … Continued
So you’ve received an offer, got a sale contract in place, and are ready to move on to the final step of closing. But not so fast – there’s an important remaining step that can make or break the deal. That’s the inspection, a contingency written into most offers. And that means that if the … Continued
If you are preparing to list your house, you will have to make some repairs – it’s inevitable. But where do you start, what repairs do you need to make, and when is enough good enough. The rule of thumb here is to make just those repairs that will help you make more money at … Continued
If you’ve decided to sell your house, you know that you have a lot to do before actually listing it, a lot of interlocking pieces to get in place. Getting your house ready for sale so that it will sell quickly and at the price you want takes a lot of work. Still, some things … Continued
Most of us dread moving more than any other task in life – and for good reason – because it is very disruptive and just plain hard work. But it doesn’t have to be that way or at least not as bad as it often is. If done right, it can be a time of … Continued
Buying or selling a home is one of the largest financial transactions a person will experience ever. Hiring the wrong agent can lead to mistakes. Mistakes might cost you the home or tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Do you need an agent? Here are 4 signs of a great agent in Houston. … Continued
Many homebuyers use the internet to locate potential homes and often go through a neighborhood’s day of open houses before they contact their real estate agent. This makes the open house all the more important in the marketing process. Hosting an open house? Here are 3 ways to be successful in [market-city]. Research and Market … Continued
Getting multiple offers on your home is a good position to be in. It suggests the market favors sellers and your home has attractive qualities to different types of buyers. But is the offer for the most money the best offer? Not always. Here are some suggestions on how to decide which offer to accept … Continued
Anyone who has ever bought or sold a home knows that the real estate commission costs up to six percent of the sale price. This means a $400,000 home pays up to $24,000 by the seller. That’s a lot of dough, which has many wondering if having an agent is worth the cost. In most … Continued
Naturally, you want to sell your house for the most money possible. And the best-case scenario, of course, is actually selling it for more than it’s worth. To do that, you’ll need to know exactly what is driving home sales in your local market and then make your house stand out and take the right … Continued
Selling a house seldom goes as smoothly as we’d like it to, especially when it comes to the offer. Not every offer for your house is right, and many should be rejected – even sometimes when the money figure is highly attractive. But it’s not always easy to know which offers should be rejected and … Continued
You have likely heard more times than you’d like to recall that the three most important considerations for selling a home are location, location, and location. There’s much truth in that, but it turns out that buyers look at price first. No matter how perfectly a house meets a buyer’s needs and wants, if it’s … Continued
Should you sell your house now, or should you wait? It is, after all, a big step involving a long labor-intensive process, and then there’s the ordeal of the move on top of that. Still, there are plenty of signs that you should sell – low rates, low inventory, high demand, and rising prices, to … Continued
