10 tips for selling your home

Choose your agent wisely

In todays complicated market, the right agent with detailed knowledge of the local markets can provide you with useful tips, sound advice and a marketing plan to sell your home.

Go on the market at the right time

The right time is now! With inventory at an all time low, and many more buyers than sellers, we’re seeing most homes selling at the asking price or over in less than 30 days.

Get Professional Pictures Taken

If a picture is worth a thousand words, let a professional make your home stand out from the competition.

Price it Right

Your agent will suggest a listing price based on Fair Market Value by thoroughly researching comparable homes in your neighborhood and town.

Declutter

You only get one chance to make a good first impression. Make sure your home is free of clutter, including items on kitchen countertops, clothes laying around, newspapers, magazines, etc. If you have to put items in storage, do it. It will pay off.

Depersonalize

Every buyer wants to imagine your home as their own, but seeing pictures of you and your family, and other personal items makes it difficult for them to do that Give buyers the opportunity to see themselves living in your home by packing away all of your personal items.

Stage your Home

This doesn’t mean hiring a professional stager, but your agent can help you by rearranging your existing furniture or adding or subtracting furniture to accommodate what buyers are looking for based on your agents experience in the market.

Be accommodating

Do the best you can to allow your agent to do their job, by agreeing to open houses, and arranging a showing around the buyers schedule not yours.

Ask for Feedback

Always ask your agent to provide you with real time feedback from the buyers that are viewing your home. Then be open to making the needed adjustments to pricing, repairs, etc. to help make sure your home sells for the most money, in the shortest period of time.

steps in selling your home with weichert

1. INITIAL VISIT

3. price evaluation

2. MARKETING PLAN

Your Weichert Sales Associate gets acquainted with you and your home in order to create a plan for selling your home.

2. MARKETING PLAN

3. price evaluation

2. MARKETING PLAN

Your Weichert Sales Associate presents a customized plan, along with marketing pieces that will showcase your home to buyers.

3. price evaluation

Your Weichert Sales Associate uses the unique Weichert Price Trend Analysis* in order to help you set a price based on a complete understanding of the local market.

4. recommend

3. price evaluation

Your Weichert Sales Associate may suggest simple simple ways to make your home more marketable and attract a better price.

5. listing agreement

6. Weichert Mortgage Advisor

Upon signing, you supply copies of your deed, survey, and title policy, if available, to your Weichert Sales Associate.

6. Weichert Mortgage Advisor

Your Weichert Sales Associates partners with our mortgage expert and explains how together they make this transition to your next home easier.

7. Home protection-plan

6. Weichert Mortgage Advisor

7. Home protection-plan

The benefits of providing insurance coverage as an incentive to buyers for repair or replacement of your home's operating systems and appliances are explained to you.

8. for "sale" sign

6. Weichert Mortgage Advisor

7. Home protection-plan

Weichert's highly visible and recognizable sign placed on your property is an important tool buyers frequently use to find a home.

9. multiple listing services (MLS)

Your property is entered into the MLS system or wide exposure to real estate brokers and their customers.

10. online marketing

9. multiple listing services (MLS)

Weichert bids on nearly a million search terms to drive buyers to our website making your home easy to find. We also place your listing on many popular real estate websites.

11. Weichert.com

9. multiple listing services (MLS)

12. Weichert Caravan

Through our state-of-the-art Welcome Center, online buyers interested in your home can immediately connect to a Weichert Sales Associate who can answer questions and arrange an appointment to view it.

12. Weichert Caravan

9. multiple listing services (MLS)

12. Weichert Caravan

Associates from your Sales Associate's office drive to your home together to preview so they can recommend the buyers

13. broker's open house

Your home is showcased for Sales Associates from nearby Weichert offices and other real estate brokers in the area.

14. marketing

13. broker's open house

Your Weichert Sales Associate your most likely buyers and reaches them through a combination of direct mail, email, social media and newspaper listings.

15. "just listed" card

13. broker's open house

15. "just listed" card

As soon as your home is listed, your Weichert Sales Associate sends potential buyers a direct mail card that lets them know your home is available.

16. open house

13. broker's open house

15. "just listed" card

1 of every 3 Weichert Open Houses leads to a sale. That's because we follow a multi-step program beginning with invitations sent by mail and email ending with a follow-up by phone within 24 hours.

17. financing sheet

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18. interoffice refferals

A customized handout lists multiple financing options to show buyers how affordably your home can fit into their monthly budget.

18. interoffice refferals

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18. interoffice refferals

Our local Weichert office receives referrals of potential buyers for your home through Weichert's powerful network of sales offices across the nation.

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Your Weichert Sales Associate notifies our relocation division whose corporate client - relocating into your area - can then view your home.

20. mortgage preapproval

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Weichert Financial Services can give perspective buyers a mortgage preapproval so you can have confidence in their ability to complete a purchase of your home.**

21. in-house promotion

24. relocation assistance

21. in-house promotion

Your home's listing is reviewed at weekly Weichert's office meetings to promote more showings.

22. Follow-up feedback

24. relocation assistance

21. in-house promotion

Your Weichert Sales Associate regularly reports to you on progress and conveys responses from prospective buyers and brokers who have seen your home.

23. home purchase

24. relocation assistance

Your Weichert Sales Associate explains how Weichert can ease your way with financing, homeowners insurance and closing services (title insurance)

24. relocation assistance

If you are leaving the area, your Weichert Sales Associate makes the connection for you to the local Weichert office in that area.

25. Periodic review

As part of the sales process, your Weichert Sales Associate continues to analyze local market activity and make recommendations about fine-tuning the marketing and pricing of your home.

26. manager's review

25. Periodic review

The Sales Manager of your Weichert Sales Associate's office reviews the status of your home sale.

27. offer made

25. Periodic review

27. offer made

Your Weichert Sales Associate advises you of all offers and helps you negotiate any counteroffers you may take.

28. agreement

25. Periodic review

27. offer made

Working through your Weichert Sales Associate, you and the buyers agree on price and terms, including a closing/settlement fee.

29. contract of sale

30. inspections and follow-up

Initial deposit is placed in a trust account,. In some states, an attorney review is customary.

30. inspections and follow-up

The buyers and their agent will likely do two walk-throughs. Your Weichert Sales Associate will update you on pre-closing inspections and will negotiate any issues that will arise.

31. mortgage commitment

30. inspections and follow-up

32. closing / settlement

Your Weichert Sales Associate confirms that closing/settlement date and location. You'll receive a closing disclosure before or after the settlement, which includes any adjustments for miscellaneous items (taxes, utility fees, etc.)

32. closing / settlement

30. inspections and follow-up

32. closing / settlement

You sign any necessary documentation. You are paid and give the buyer the title (or deed) and the keys.