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6 Things Real Estate Agents Wish You Knew

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Real estate agents see it all.

From the unmade beds to the overstuffed garages to the “What were they thinking?” decor. Over the years, they learn a thing or two: Why some houses sell, while others linger on the market. Why some promising buyers never make it to the closing table. How to get a better deal on the mortgage. Even just how much the other agents stand to make on your home. And the good news is, they want to share. Whether you’re a buyer, seller or both, here are six things real estate agents wish you already knew.

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Why Sellers Shouldn’t Wait Until After the Holidays to List Homes

With the holidays approaching, sellers often wonder if they should keep their properties on the market or take them off? Or if they haven’t listed their homes yet, should they wait until after the first of the year? Maybe hold off until spring?

Conventional wisdom used to be that you shouldn’t even try to sell your home during the busy holiday season. Potential homebuyers were too preoccupied with attending parties, cooking meals, buying presents or planning vacations. With all that going on, there just wasn’t time to ride around with a real estate agent, looking at properties.

But with the Internet, smartphones, tablets and our always-on lifestyle, that conventional wisdom isn’t relevant anymore. The reality is, the homebuying season is now year-round. Here’s why you should consider listing your home during the holidays, or even in January.

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3 Soothing Insights for Sellers

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Selling your first home can feel like a real estate roller coaster: it has lots of twists and turns — and even some points where you just hold your breath and wait to see how things turn out. However, you have more control over this wild ride than you may realize. Here are a few facts that can minimize the anxiety and maximize the outcome of your first home-selling experience.

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4 Outside-the-Box Ways to Sell Your Home

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You found the perfect agent, your list price is dead on, and your property is pristine. Now what? If you’re committed to doing everything within your power to sell your home, but it’s not coming as easily as you’d hoped, it’s time to get innovative. Here are a few outside-the-box strategies for getting your home sold.

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Smoking Snuffs Out Home Prices

A recent study of real estate agents in Ontario, Canada, found that smoking can reduce a home’s resale value by 20 percent. The study was commissioned by Pfizer Canada, a pharmaceutical manufacturer.

Selling the home can pose quite the challenge too. Eighty-eight percent of the agents surveyed say that it’s more difficult to sell a home where the residents were smokers.

Read the article…

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5 Ridiculous Seller Sayings

Selling your home isn’t easy. In fact, it’s one of those experiences that can cause even the most stable, calm human being to feel panic, outrage, and anxiety — and sometimes all of the above, at the same time. We get it. Even worse, these volatile emotions can lead you to say silly things that affect your home selling strategy. Here are five ridiculous refrains we’ve heard from sellers over the years, along with some insights to keep them from infiltrating your actual home selling decisions.

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7 Home Features Buyers Love

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If your home has gorgeous ocean views, sits on acres of land, or is in the most prestigious neighborhood in town, it’s pretty easy to know what to lead with in your marketing. But if you have a normal house in a normal neighborhood, it can be hard to know where to start. Some features that you take for granted might have major appeal to home buyers. Here are seven often overlooked home features to make your listing shine.

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3 Multiple Personality Market Musts for Smart Sellers

In the dramatic world of the theater, they say “it ain’t over ‘till the fat lady sings.“ In the dramatic world of the real estate market, headlines touting multiple offers and appreciating home values can feel like a premature declaration that the recession is over to some homeowners.

As you’ve probably heard a million times, real estate is hyperlocal. And it’s true – in many, many markets across the country, a mood of exuberant recovery has eclipsed the recession era’s stagnation, doom and gloom.  But the fat lady hasn’t sung for the 10 million homeowners who are still upside down on their mortgages, according to CoreLogic, or for sellers whose homes aren’t following the national trend of flying off the market  after receiving dozens of contingency-free, cash offers.

Here are a few multiple personality market musts for smart sellers…

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Mistakes Sellers Make When Hiring a Listing Agent

There are loads of lists to be found online and in books about the questions you should ask when you interview listing agents. But it’s a lot harder to figure out what mistakes the sellers who have gone before you would avoid, if they could.

Trulia has heard from thousands of sellers over the years, online and off, about the things they neglected to do when they were selecting their listing agent – the omissions they regretted later.

Read the top nine regrets…

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3 Skills Every Modern Home Seller Needs

Although it’s easier to sell a home now than it has been in years, it’s still a complex process with loads of decisions to make and relationships to manage. Plus, the timing and outcome of your home’s sale has a huge effect on your daily life, now and in the future, so you’ve got to get it right. Learn why the 3 D’s — delegation, detachment, and diligence — are critical skills that every home seller on today’s market should master!