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Free Home Analysis
For a complete professional home analysis, free of charge, just call Chicago Condo Group at (312) 278-8563.
Attention Home Sellers!
Selling hour home is not only a major financial transaction; the selling process can be complicated,
confusing and emotionally exhausting.
Your Chicago Condo Group REALTOR® works for you and with you throughout the home selling process,
provides expert advice, helps you make informed decisions and protects your interests. It is their business to
help you sell your home with minimum delay and realize every dollar it is worth.
Your REALTOR®
will help you prepare your property, promote it, find qualified buyers, answer the
inquiry calls, make appointments and handle showings, fuss over details and paperwork.
You can count on your Chicago Condo Group REALTOR® to take away the headaches and save you a lot of time
and money!
If you answer no to the following questions, you could be headed for trouble. You will benefit greatly from the comprehensive services
Chicago Condo Group provides to our sellers.
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Are you really capable of selling your own home?
Selling a home is a complex transaction that takes lots of time, effort and expertise.
It takes a real estate professional – Chicago Condo Group.
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Do you want the headache of showing your home?
Do you enjoy handling phone inquiries at all hours, scheduling appointments, cancellations, showing strangers through your home, making enthusiastic
sales presentations, follow up calls to get honest feedback, trying to find out if the prospect is truly pre-qualified, haggling over offers?
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Do you know the current market value of your home?
Your Chicago Condo Group REALTOR® will help you calculate an optimum
competitive price for your property to sell it quickly and profitably.
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Is your house ready to show?
Does it need repairs and improvements to increase the value? Are there code violations?
Is the style up-to-date? Does it have “sales appeal”?
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Do you know how to “stage” your house?
Your Chicago Condo Group
REALTOR® knows what influences buyers and can give you design and improvement ideas to add “sales appeal”
to your home without spending a fortune.
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Do you know how to reach qualified prospective buyers?
Are you aware that most home buyers prefer to work
with a real estate agent? As your REALTORS®, we are in touch with many potential buyers and will pre-qualify
them before setting an appointment.
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Can you maintain objectivity during negotiations?
Can you respond unemotionally to criticisms by the buyer and when presenting offers and counter-offers until an agreement is reached?
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Can you help the buyer meet financing requirements?
Do you have a relationship
with a good mortgage broker and do you know how to go about obtaining financing for your buyer?
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Are you familiar with Illinois real estate laws?
There are a number of requirements such as attorney procedures at
closing. Do you know which attorneys specialize in real estate and will provide
you with the best representation?
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Do you understand the closing process?
Do you understand the functions
of appraisers, home inspectors, mortgage lenders, contractors and insurance agents?
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Don't let an over-priced home be a humbling lesson
The greatest influencer in getting your home
sold is entering the market with a home that's
priced correctly.
Overpriced
homes won't get favorable attention; they lose
out to the ones that are reasonably priced.
All sellers are looking for the highest price for their home.
That is why some sellers want to start at the highest point, maybe even asking a higher price than what they really believe they can get --
the continued readjustment of price can be a humbling ride down to finding the reasonable price to sell the home.
Continuously
adjusting price down may come too late and cost
the seller less in gain than if the home were
priced correctly from the start.
As
a seller's overpriced property continues to
sit on the market the listing loses its newness.
Agents
pay a great deal of attention to what's new
on the market.
Homes
that are priced correctly generate attention,
activity and a sale; overpriced homes, on the
other hand, sit for long periods, are passed
over, and ultimately result in a price reduction.
If the seller has purchased a new home or must move to another state, suddenly the desperate seller
syndrome sets in and lowball offers may have to be accepted due to financial circumstances.
Pricing
a home correctly initially is vital -- otherwise
the "we-can-always-drop-our-price" strategy
could become a costly and humbling lesson in
the end.
Phoebe Chongchua, writer, speaker, and author.
For
a free market analysis, please contact Annie Alexander
at 312.501.2001.
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