Madeline Walker and Debbie Byrnes

Selling Your Home This Fall!

The fall real estate market is almost always a hot season. Home selling in autumn is the second-best time of the year to sell a home. Serious buyers are motivated to purchase quickly, before the busy holiday season and bad weather set in. The seasonal atmosphere makes your home feel warm and welcoming. One of the many reasons spring is revered as prime time for selling real estate is how beautiful and vibrant a house appears when the grass is at its greenest, flowers are in bloom and foliage is abundant. Here’s what you need to know to make the most of an advantageous fall real estate market. How to Sell a Home in Autumn Is Fall the New Spring Market in Real Estate? Tips to Sell Your Home in the Fall 7 Best Things About Buying A House In The Fall

Selling your home this fall? it’s a great time, here are some tips.

Home selling in autumn is the second-best time of the year to sell a home. Families have returned from summer vacations. Kids have gone back to school. The holidays aren’t yet upon us. If you’re planning on putting your house on the market, be aware that different folks enter the market at different times of the year. The lively spring real estate season thrives on families wishing to relocate while their kids are on break from school. Home sales in autumn, however, are driven mainly by millennials and empty-nesters. Here are some great tips to help you get the most for your home this fall. How to Sell a Home in Autumn Top 10 real estate tips for the fall Selling This Fall? Court Millennials and Empty-Nesters

Preparing Your Home To Sell This Fall.

While spring may be the best time for home sales, that isn’t always possible for every homeowner. The fall real estate market is almost always a hot season. Home selling in autumn is the second-best time of the year to sell a home. Potential buyers—like empty nesters or millennials who aren’t worried about moving after the school year has started—will compete for fewer homes on the market and will likely want to buy their new home before the holiday season kicks into high gear. Here are some tips to prepare your home for this important time. 3 Tips to Sell Your House in the Fall How to Sell a Home in Autumn 13 Things to Know About Selling Your Home in Fall and Winter

Multiple Offers-Competing Home Offers

You see a new home listed for sale and you go out to visit the open house. You decide you love the house and are going to submit an offer. But wait, there are others who also love this house and suddenly you are competing against several offers at the same time! To help you come out on top, let’s look at the offer process from the perspective of the seller: What are the seller’s options when there are multiple offers, and what type of offer is most likely to be accepted? In today’s fast-paced seller’s market, an aggressively priced property can often fetch multiple offers, spurring a bidding war between homebuyers. As the seller, this is an extremely fortunate position to be in, but one which may prove more confusing than expected. Competing With Other Homebuyers in Multiple Offer Situations How Do Sellers Handle Multiple Offers? 5 Ways to Maximize Multiple Offers on Your Home

Prepare your home for a successful Open House!

Yesterday, we talked about going to an Open House, now it’s time to get your home ready for an Open House. You want to make a great impression for people coming to visit your property and make it easy for them to “Move in Mentally” Here are some tips to help you with just that. Preparing for Open Houses 4 Steps to Staging for an Open House 14 Steps to a Flawless Open House

It’s Open House Time! Are You Ready?

Spring finally feels like it has sprung and with that is the start of the Open House season! Here are some lessons on Open House Etiquettte and some good reasons to attend open houses, even if you aren’t buying a home right now! Check the links below for good information. Open House Etiquette for Home Buyers A Buyer’s Guide to Open House Etiquette 6 Surprising Reasons to Go to an Open House—Even If You’re Not Buying

Best Home Upgrades for 2018

2018 is shaping up to be a big year for residential remodeling. Home values are up, which means it’s a good time to invest in your house by making key upgrades. Planning to remodel your kitchen, add a master suite, or undertake some other pricey home renovation? Every homeowner wants to get the biggest impact possible out of their home improvements. Find out how the top home improvements rank, plus get tips on maximizing the return at resale. Find out more with the articles below: The Best Ways to Improve Your Home’s Value in 2018 What the 20 Most Popular Home Renovations Are Really Worth in 2018 Top 15 Home Updates That Pay Off We Asked The Pros: Which Home Improvements Have the Best ROI in 2018