Massachusetts Real Estate- Merrimack Valley
Real Estate in Essex and Northern Middlesex Counties, Massachusetts
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...
Every home seller has high hopes their home will sell immediately and that there home is priced just right. Unfortunately for some home sellers that is not always the case and they will be faced with reducing the price of their home if they truly want to sell it. You will be left asking how much of a price reduction should I have on my home. Pricing your home right from the start is ultra critical yet it doesn't always happen. Sometimes determining the fair market value of … Continue reading...
Good things come in small packages, some say; but how many people would actually agree with this statement, especially in real estate? Potential buyers most certainly wouldn’t, that’s for sure. Cozy, adorable, warm, compact – these are all adjectives known to us as perfect euphemisms for cramped, claustrophobic and cluttered, and we can no longer be so easily fooled into settling for a smaller home than we have initially planned on buying. So how come we see more and more people joining the … Continue reading...
Of course you want to get the most amount of money for your home. That is natural. But the price you set for your home will determine many things thru the life of your listing.... not just how much you net in your pocket. At the end of the day properly pricing your home boils down to the comparable homes that have sold around you. Your real estate professional should prepare a report or CMA for you to understand what similar nearby properties have sold for in the recent … Continue reading...
It disheartening to prepare your home, coordinate showings and negotiate an offer to then to have to put your home back on the market because your buyer pulled out of the deal because of home inspections issues. Yet it happens. Having to put your home back on the market because of a buyer backing out because of home inspections issues is certainly a disappointment it also have some detrimental effects to the sale of your home. Today we will discuss putting your home back on the … Continue reading...
Selling the real estate property isn’t as easy as it may look like. In order to attract potential buyers and influence their decision, you’ll need to do your best while staging the house. Before you make any investments toward staging your home, make sure to explore all other, cheaper, and possibly free ways of making it appealing to potential buyers. You’ll need to start from the outside, take care of driveway and backyard, and then continue with cleaning and redecorating the interior. The … Continue reading...
As a home shopper, there are a few things you can do to make your life easier…and that is to make your agent’s job easier. You two have aligned goals, so it is best to work with each other instead of against each other. I have observed both sides of the transaction enough times to know a few of the items consumers can do to help their REALTOR®. Here is that list. Be Upfront and Communicative All good relationships are built … Continue reading...
It is so much work to get your house ready to sell. You take weeks even months preparing your home, the showings start and you are so anxious to get feedback from each home buyer, hoping this is the one. Sometimes the home buyer's feedback is straight forward other times it needs to be put in context with other home buyers feedback to get a full understanding of what is going on. Home buyer feedback is one of the best tools we have to monitor what is going on with your … Continue reading...
When it comes to selling your home kitchens and baths usually hold the most amount of appeal for home buyers. I recently talked about giving your kitchen some sizzle and today we will talk about giving your bathroom some sparkle to capture a home buyers attention. Bathrooms are the most expensive rooms per square foot to renovate. Maybe you don't have the most up to date bath but here are 9 killer home staging tips for your bathroom that won't break the bank. I will also lay out a few … 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...
