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Selling your home is an involved process that affects your family and your future. When you're armed with the right information, and an experienced real estate professional, you'll be closer to reaching your goal - selling your home fast, and for the best price.
Find Out What Homes Are Selling For In Maryland -- Just send me an email telling me which area, neighborhood, street or Maryland County you want to know about and I will send you a free report showing the prices homes have sold for in the past 6 months. Click here for your free report
List Your Home With Laurie Stelmack and Long & Foster Real Estate
When you hire me, you also get the knowledge and experience of Long & Foster’s 35+ years of Real Estate experience.
1. Your home will be listed on Maryland's multiple listing service (MLS) along with an online virtual tour ( with unlimited photos). The Virtual Tour is uploaded within 48 hrs of signing a listing agreement. A photo of your home is immediately posted with your listing on the MLS. (Per the National Association of Realtors, 80 percent of buyers start their search for a home on the web. A majority of buyers do not look at listings without photos) Prospective buyers will have "open house" access to your home 24/7 with no inconvenience to you!
2. Your listing and virtual tour will be advertised on the following Websites for maximum exposure to sell your home quickly!
a. MLS
b. Homes Data Base
c. Realtor.com
d. Long and Foster
e. Baltimoresun.homescape.com
f. Online Shopper's Guide
g. HomePages.com
h. HomeSeekers.com
i. Yahoo Classifieds
j. HarfordCountyHomeSales.com
k. BuyHarfordCountyHomes.com
l. Homes.point2.com
m. Craigslist.com
n. Oodle.com
o. Googlebase.com
p. Truilla.com
3. I create a detailed sales brochure of your home both in print an online version. A Long & Foster Sign with an attached holder filled with informational flyers will be placed in front of your home.
4. Long & Foster is a member of the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World network which means your home is marketed to over 15,000 communities across our country. Your listing will be seen by real estate agents that are working with pre-screened, pre-approved, prospective buyers. My goal is to sell your home quickly and for the best price.
5. MRIS lock box that records all entries into your home.
6. A detailed Flyer with Photos on display at Harford Mall's Long & Foster Kiosk if your home is located in Harford County, Maryland.
7. I will provide a comparative Market Analysis to help determine the best selling price for your home in today’s buyer's market.
8. A Long and Foster Receptionist is on-duty Mon-Fri 9AM-8PM and Sat & Sun 9AM-6PM to schedule and notify you of all showings. I will provide timely feedback to you from these showing by phone or email. All offers will be presented to you in detail and I will help you determine the best offer.
9. I will be there for you every step of the way to make your transaction smooth and worry free! I will attend all inspections, negotiate on your behalf, attend settlement and be just a call or email away!
Price Your Home To Sell In A Buyer's Market
| In setting the list price for your home, you should be aware of a buyer’s frame of mind. Based on a list of houses for sale in your neighborhood (which can be in the form of a printed list from us, or online search results that you’ve found yourself), buyers will determine which houses they want to view. Consider the following pricing factors: |
- If you set the price too high, your house won’t be picked for viewing, even though it may be much nicer than others in the area.
You may have told your REALTOR? to "Bring me any offer. Frankly, I’d take less." But in that list of houses, yours simply looks too expensive to be considered.
If you price too low, you'll short-change yourself. Your house will sell promptly, yes, but before it has time to find the buyer who would have paid more. NOTE: Never say "asking" price, which implies you don't expect to get it.
To determine the proper list price, Click Here for a free, no-obligation, market analysis of your home. I can also provide you with the following professional services:
- Marketing Plan
- Analyzing market conditions.
- Estimating your net proceeds.
Using Comparable Sales
No matter how attractive and polished your house, buyers will be comparing its price with everything else on the market. Your best guide is a record of what the buying public has been willing to pay in the past few months for property in your neighborhood like yours.
Also I can furnish data on sale figures for those "comps", and analyze them for a suggested listing price. The decision about how much to ask, though, is always yours. The list of comparable sales I bring to you, along with data about other houses in your neighborhood presently on the market, is used for a "Comparative Market Analysis (CMA)." To help in estimating a possible sale price for your house, the analysis will also include data on nearby houses that failed to sell in the past few months, along with their list prices.
This CMA differs from a formal appraisal in several ways. One major difference is that an appraisal will be based only on past sales. In addition, an appraisal is done for a fee while the CMA is provided by us and may include properties currently listed for sale and those currently pending sale.
In the normal home sale, a CMA is probably enough to let you set a proper price. A formal written appraisal (which may cost a few hundred dollars) can be useful if you have unique property, if there hasn't been much activity in your area recently, if co-owners disagree about price, and any other circumstance that makes it difficult to put a value on your home. |