Massachusetts Real Estate- Merrimack Valley
Real Estate in Essex and Northern Middlesex Counties, Massachusetts
There is a process to selling your home. The process to selling your home involves more calling an agent to slap a sign in the yard. Once you have the thought of selling your home, contact an agent and get an overview of the home selling process. Make the home selling process work for you. Most home sellers expect to get top dollar for their home and want it sold quickly with few hassles. If this is your expectation when it comes time to sell your home don't short the … Continue reading...
If you are a first time home seller or haven't sold a house recently you probably have a lot of questions and wondering what is involved. I have put together what home sellers need to know to successfully sell their home. There are many aspects that go into selling a home. And, for the first time home seller or for someone that hasn't sold in awhile there is much to know. In the 18+ years I have been in the business there has been some major shifts in how buyers buy and … Continue reading...
I have been listing and showing homes for over 18 years north and northwest of Boston Massachusetts. Over the course of those 18 years I have had many sellers try to make their home into something it is not thru their real estate description on their home's listing. Sellers will often want to over exaggerate on descriptions. Other times an overzealous agent will puff the description to try and give your home the appeal that isn't there. We have all seen those too good to be true, … Continue reading...
I have been on a string of listing vacant homes for sale. Vacant homes present certain marketing challenges that need to be overcome. On my last vacant listing I decided to try virtual staging the home to overcome some of the challenges. Vacant Homes Can Be Challenging to Sell In most cases, I prefer my listings to be furnished. Homes generally sell better when they are furnished. This does not mean you don't have to put some preparation into a furnished home … Continue reading...
In Massachusetts home that are new to the market show up as a "NEW listing" for four days. From a marketing standpoint your listing is only new once. It is important for a seller to make the most of the first few days to the first couple of weeks of their new listing. The new listing period thru the first couple of weeks is a very critical time for the sale of your home. It is the period that will get the most amount of attention from the very best buyers. If it all … Continue reading...
As every year goes by in the real estate industry we are seeing a shift in the quality of real estate photography provided to home sellers. Today, a larger percentage of agent are using professional real estate photography and it is starting to become the norm. I am seeing many agents now focusing on providing quality real estate images. A real estate agent now has choices to make when it comes to real estate photography. What agents should not be doing to provide … Continue reading...
I proposed "What Every Listing Agent Wished Their Sellers Knew".... well I received some great responses from some very competent listing agents across the country. For some sellers listing a home may seem like a mystery. But these agents know what they are doing.... from helping you prepare your home, pricing properly for the market and presenting it to the public, these top listing agents have the experience and know how to help you. What Every Listing Agent Wished There Home Sellers … Continue reading...
There are many factors that go into selling your home. But one of the more critical pieces is pricing your home just right. The price of your home can dictate many aspects of the home selling process throughout the life of your listing. One of the things that home sellers tend to overlook is the psychological factors that your list price has on buyers. Let explore some of the psychological factors that can motivate a home buyer to buy or a home buyer to even reject your … Continue reading...
For 90% of the home buyers out there, deciding to put an offer in on a home is an emotional decision. Very rarely is it strictly a practical, financial decision. The decision to buy a home is driven more by emotion. There is something or a lot of things home buyers love about the home they buy. Many of my home buyers view between 10-15 homes before pulling the trigger on a home. Never mind the countless homes they may have reviewed on the internet. From the moment a … Continue reading...
We have all heard about curb appeal and how important it is when it comes time to sell real estate. Basically curb appeal is the attractiveness of your home from the street. But in this day in age its more important to ask does your home have "web appeal"? Or how attractive does your home appear on the web! Web appeal is not all that different than curb appeal. It is about first impressions. What impression are you giving that internet buyer on their very first peek at … Continue reading...
