Pricing Your Home
In my opinion, about 80% of the successful marketing of your home is in establishing the proper sales price. Many owners tend to overprice based on emotional values and lack of real information about current market trends as well as considerations of your original purchase price, repairs and/or remodeling. If you're overpriced, you probably will incur additional expenses due to extended market time, such as advertising, taxes, interest, insurance, utilities and so on.The majority of people selling their own home end up slightly undervaluing their home. Many people do this to make their home look more attractive on the market. This represents the flip side of the pricing strategy. Also, many sellers aren't trained in how best to negotiate a fair price, they end up losing money at the end of the day. Further to this, many sellers are not familiar with property transfer expenses, excise taxes, title insurance, closing costs which, at settlement, may net you much less than anticipated.
If your home is in Abbotsford, Mission, Chilliwack or Langley, with my experience in your neighborhood and the computerized public records information available to me, I can assist you in determining a fair price for your home based current market and buyer behavior. Just contact me, you don’t even have to meet me. I can email this information to you. This information is extremely valuable because most buyers won't buy until they see actual data which justifies the selling price. This is a valuable tool in the negotiation process. Incidentally, it's been proven, the closer you price your home to the real market value, the closer an offer will be to your asking price.
I sincerely wish you the best of luck, and if I can be of any help, feel free to call