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How To Sell Expensive Houses
So, you have lived in a house for several years and are taking pride in a multitude of improvements, but now it seems to be overvalued. How can you sell such a house?
When talking about the issue selling expensive houses, two scenarios exist:
1) You have a house within a neighborhood that is expensive and you thus ask for prices similar to the homes that are around you. In this situation, you have to sell the expensive home in question through more traditional means, such as through FSBO listings or through realtors. The home has to be cleaned and then listed with multiple listing services. Open houses need to be undertaken and given advertising on the internet with photographs. Within today’s market, you need to have the ability to move homes quite quickly.
2) This scenario is a little more complex since you need to improve your house beyond values supported by the structures surrounding it. This can oftentimes happen if you live within a house for a substantial time period and make certain home additions like brand new floors, rooms and renovated kitchens. Homes within the neighborhood are all probably appraised for around $300,000; however, your additions need to make your house worth more than $450,000. This could be a problem since nobody will want to purchase the most expensive house on your block.
Your initial choice would be to hold onto your home, with hopes that neighbors will come around and improve their own homes. However, since this strategy is full of problems, you should probably avoid it.
The better choice would be to target your house to specific demographics. If you have added several rooms to the house, you have to produce advertisements that are directed at families with several children that would match the amount of bedrooms in the house. If you have driven yourself crazy with fixture and kitchen improvements, you need to market your house as a cheap luxury. The goal would be to transform any problem into unique selling positions for your home. There will definitely be buyers out there on the lookout for solutions to these problems.
If your home happens to be too improved, each possible sale might fall through since the appraised price could make things difficult for buyers to get loans. The ideal to deal with this would be to carry second mortgages on your house. By doin
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g so, you will agree to take particular percentages of the overall price within payments over particular periods of time. This will allow buyers to live in the house as you leave. If you take this direction, you need to ensure that you make use of lawyers to ensure that everything is actually legal.
Selling expensive houses can be challenging, but it can be done.
By: Bruce Wayne
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Homes for Sale-Vacant or Abandoned?
It is happening across the nation. There are many, many homes that have been left vacant. Some are vacant due to an upcoming foreclosure.
What about the rest of them? What’s their story?
The story varies, but ultimately, it turns out, through all the best efforts of Realtor and Seller, a home just didn’t sell in its projected time period. The timing was off, the market was flat, the price was wrong, the condition wasn’t up to snuff, or the location is just not desirable.
Whatever the reason, as the home owner, you ended up with these three choices:
1. Take the house off the market and postpone the move. Re-list at a later date, when the housing market is on the move again.
2. You live in the new place, your partner stays behind until it sells…and endure the additional stress that come with the separation of family.
3. You pack it in, move everything, (family, furnishings, cars and pets) you’re out. Then you hold two mortgages while waiting for a buyer to come along.
As the homeowner, the option that worked best for you, was Choice #3.
Time has moved on and your new home is just swell. Things are a bit tight-no extra money- as it goes dutifully over to your vacant homes mortgage. You start resenting the old house. The new home is new, and it is receiving the love it deserves. The furniture is placed, paintings are hung, kids are adjusting to the new school, and the neighbors are friendly. All seems to be going very well.
But, wait!
SELLER BEWARE: Vacant homes become jaded. They figure out ways to get your attention.
Pipes mysteriously burst into the night, floor boards buckle, a strange smell comes through the home…and then the weather sets in to aid the house on its singular mission…to get you to pay attention to it!
A slow leak in the roof, loose shingle…the leaves are piling high, the spiders have found a new home, and even the neighborhood squirrels are nesting. It’s just nuts!
Signs of an ABANDONED HOUSE:
* cold
* dark, dank, smelly
* a little grimy
* beeping CO detector (batteries dead)
* yard in dishevel
* the look of neglect
Signs of a VACANT HOME:
* a comfortable room temperature
* clean and shiney (windex, windex, windex)
* a pleasant smell in the air (air fresheners-nothing overwhelming)
* blinds, slightly tilted (letting a little sun shine in)
* a few pieces of furniture
* night lights placed strategically throughout the home
* yard remains groomed ( a service, a neighborhood kid)
The feel of a home once loved.
In marketing your home, and in sales, how does the condition of these two homes come across in the eyes of the buyer?
They loved the vacant home, it showed well, it felt good to them.
The other house: it looked abandoned, it made them sad.
Frankly, if you don’t care, why should a buyer?
Claude Cross is Broker/Owner of Homes By Cross. Serving Charlotte NC Real Estate needs since 1994. Offering No Cost Buyer Agency with Relocation Expertise.
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