What Can You Do Before Listing Your Home for Sale?

Bend, OR Real Estate Podcast with Christine Browning

When you are getting ready to sell your home, don’t neglect proper preparation. It’s the key to selling for the most money possible.

What steps should a seller actually take before listing their home? I’ve got four of them to share with you today:

1. Clean and depersonalize your home. Make it as generic and crowd-pleasing as possible.

You want your home to be generic and crowd-pleasing.

2. Stage your home. You have two main goals when staging. The first is to create a purpose for every space in your home. You also want the home to feel as open and spacious as possible.

3. Determine what your bottom line price is. I like to have my sellers figure out what their actual “balance owed” is on their mortgage. I then work with the title company to come up with three different closing statements. One is the highest price I think we could sell for, one is a mid-range price, and the third is the bottom line price.

4. Set a realistic timeline. Look at what similar homes to yours are selling for on the market and how quickly they are selling. If you’re looking to sell quickly as well, you might want to start off by pricing a little lower to garner interest more quickly. The average days on market will really help you determine a good timeline.

If you have any questions for me, don’t hesitate to reach out. I look forward to hearing from you.