The importance of staging your home?

Importance of Staging:

Buying a home is an emotional purchase. How your home shows directly effects how much a buyer is willing to pay for it. My service of going through the home with you to properly prepare it for the market place is very important. If we need further assistance I suggest to my clients we have a professional stager come in. Something to note when having your home professionally staged is this cost is traditionally paid up front. This means the stager will be paid whether your home sells or not. Professionally staging your home often involves using their items and/or renting furniture to enhance the feel of your home. Like any home improvement, assessing your return on investment (ROI) is a must. After all, you've hired me to properly position your home in the market place to achieve you the highest dollar value.

I hope this has been helpful and please feel free to email me with any questions. If you’d like an answer over the phone, I can do that too. 925-389-0618.

Greg Pope

pope5555@hotmail.com

www.gpope.com/

How does a Realtor Price my home for the market?

One of the things I do to help arrive at the appropriate listing price, is to go out and take a look at the current market. This is called a Competitive Market Analysis. Although most realtors can do this, I like to do it a little bit differently. I want to know what your current competition is on the market now. I also want to know what is currently pending in escrow, and what has sold in the last six months. Once your home is in escrow, there will be an appraisal on your property. The appraiser will be looking at what are called the "Sold Comparables." I'm not only looking at the comparables, but I'm also looking at the listing price and contacting the agents to find out if there were any large repairs or seller credits towards non recurring closing costs. I do this because there can be a difference between the publically recorded sales price and what was negotiated during the transaction.

I hope this has been helpful and please feel free to email me with any questions. If you’d like an answer over the phone, I can do that too. 925-389-0618.

Greg Pope
pope5555@hotmail.com
http://www.gpope.com/