How to Ensure a Quick Sale for Top Dollar? Contact Hilary Shantz, Halton Real Estate Agent
December 26th, 2007 Categories: Client Stories and Testimonials, Halton Real Estate, Oakville Real Estate News, Real Estate News
Even over the yuletide season, the wheels of real estate continue to turn.
Here are photos from a home sold last week by Hilary!
How to ensure a quick sale for top dollar?
1) Home Staging: Let Hilary bring in her expert staging consultant Karen Kostyshyn of Home Interior Transformations to prepare your home to wow potential buyers. Karen brings in “props” and with her eye for detail and current decorating trends takes an ordinary home and transforms it into one that looks like a “model home”. (Hilary includes the cost of professional staging in her services offered.)
2) Decluttering: If you are downsizing or have a lot of unnecessary items in your home, talk to Hilary about including a declutttering session in your home selling strategy. A professional organizer can help in sorting stuff out and taking extraneous items away for donation, dump or even resale. Editing your home professionally will make it look more spacious and appealing! (Refer to my article on how buyers buy: you need to have them at hello.)
3) Professional Photographs: Then let Hilary bring in aprofessional photographer to provide just the right lighting and multiple shots to showcase the home to advantage, virtual tours, slide shows. This attracts those who are shopping on the internet. Nowadays some 80% of home buyers start their search online.
4) A Savvy Marketing Plan Unique for Your Home, including exposure to multiple home selling sites on the internet and advertising in the Real Estate Book. Your home will have its own url for “rich detail” so that buyers can be sold on the home even before actually viewing it.
5) Pricing it Right: To price a home right, you need to know what has sold recently in the neighborhood and for how much, current economic factors that affect the forces of supply and demand, number of other homes currently for sale in that category, and how they have been priced (competing homes), aseasonal factors and their impact on the market, and just basic “intuition” gained from experience, and a “feel for the market”.
Did you know that “Real Estate Spring” begins the second week of January?
Call Hilary 905–257–3633 and her Home-Selling Team to talk about preparing your Halton home for sale!
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Great work Hilary and crew! Properly staged, wisely marketed, and properly priced I am sure… This is good news from a true expert in Oakville real estate. Homes sellers in Oakville and Halton need this information Hilary. You are finishing strong, here is to a great 2008!Terry
Hilary - That’s impressive in any market - thanks for sharing the great photos and reminding everyone that Oakville’s real estate season is just around the corner - starting packing those holiday decorations and make an appointment with a good stager! - Cyndee Haydon
Hilary - What a beautiful job your staging expert does in creating a warm, inviting home for buyers. The more sellers understand the benefits of staging, the more homes we can sell for top dollar.
What a lovely home.
Congrats on marketing the home so well!
That home is beautifully staged. Many people don’t understand the value of staging. I’ve had real estate buyers swear they could look past a messy cluttered home, but we all know that is rarely the case. That is one reason why sellers need to consult a good experienced real estate agent. We know people, like stagers, that can really make a difference.
Hi Hilary. You take great photos.