4 Home Selling Tips

San Jose Real Estate Podcast with Linda Chu

You can sell faster and for more money than your neighbor. Here’s how.

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How can you sell your home faster and for more money than any other homes in your neighborhood? I’ve got four tips to share with you today that will help you do just that:
1. Landscaping and curb appeal. It’s important to update your landscaping, and curb appeal is huge. If buyers don’t like the outside of the home, they may never come in and see the inside. Trim your shrubs, get rid of weeds, and put a fresh layer of mulch down to make the landscaping look new again.
2. Consider new paint. Nothing will make a home feel brand new like new paint on the walls. In the grand scheme of things, it’s relatively inexpensive but can pay huge dividends when it’s time for buyers to make an offer. We have some great painters that our team works with and we can set you up with one that is fair and reasonably priced.

New paint makes a home feel brand new.

3. “Move out” and clear the home of clutter. If you are able to move out of your home to get it ready, you should. If you can’t, you should do all you can to make it look like you are moved out. This means getting rid of all the clutter in every single one of your rooms. The more things you have, the more clutter buyers feel. The more clutter there is, the smaller the home feels. If you can declutter well, the home will show well. Those type of homes get higher offers than most.
4. Price it right. To help price homes, we use a software that I don’t know any other company in the Bay Area is using. We are able to look at a ton of information, including data about whether homes that had a price change or multiple price changes sold for a higher amount than homes that sold at their list price. We found that a home that's priced correctly from the beginning sells quicker and for more money than the homes that reduce their price. A home that is priced correctly will net you more money on that bottom line.
If you have any questions or want any more tips, don’t hesitate to reach out and give me a call or send me an email. I would love to hear from you.