Feb. 8, 2008 - Pricing Your Home To Sell

Use A Real Estate Professional

A Realtor® with any amount a knowledge can give you the going price of what homes are going for in your neighborhood.  What do you want to know?  A buyer coming to your neighborhood to look at homes will already have this knowledge.  They will know what like houses (as Yours) went for in the last six months.  (this is what an appraiser is going to look for when doing an appraisal for the lending institution.)   You will also want to know what is currently on the market and at what prices.  You will want to know what listings in your neighborhood have expired listings and never sold and at what prices.  Armed with this knowledge you can make a educated decision on what to price your home at.

If you chose to try and sell it your self the Realtor® that brought you the information and went over these statistics with you will respect your wishes.  But if you decide during that process to hire a professional I hope you will consider that person as they have already done some of the work.