ou put your Denver home on comparables. Your Denver real
the market and it just estate agent can go over these
didn’t sell. This created comparable prices with you to
a lot of stress for you and your help you establish the best price
family. Perhaps you needed to to sell your house.
sell due to a job change, maybe
you already bought another home. Another problem is price
reductions. Once home sellers
realize they have priced their
What you need to do now is assess home higher than the competition,
for yourself what factors caused they will take a price reduction.
your home to not sell. Some of That price reduction will
the top reasons that homes stay usually place the home at or near
on the market for extended times the price where it should have
are: been priced in the first place.
Now the problem is that you
Overpricing the property is the missed many of the home buyers
number one reason a home does not that already purchased homes
sell. A typical neighborhood priced where yours should have
usually has homes with similar been initially. To get over that
features. Such as, number of your home now needs to be priced
bedrooms, bathrooms or lot size. very competitively. If your home
Home buyers will naturally is still priced higher than any
purchase the lower priced homes of the comparables, your home
first. Leaving those similar yet will continue to sit on the
higher priced homes to languish market.
on the market. Your home should
be competitively priced with Did the condition of your
those other homes. That means at property keep it from selling?
or slightly below the The house should be cleaned
spotless. Most buyers will not
see through cosmetic Did you hire the right Colorado
shortcomings. All cosmetic items Realtor to market your home? A
such as paint, landscaping, real estate agent who has a
window coverings and flooring strong network and access to
should be in very good condition. qualified home buyers? Did he or
Making these cosmetic she use aggressive marketing on
improvements costs little to do, one of Colorado’s most heavily
but may cost you big if you trafficked websites such as
don’t. If the carpet is worn, HomeDealsColorado.com? Over 80%
the house has a strong odor or is of buyers today use the internet
cluttered the buyer will move on in their Denver home search.
to the next house.
About the Author:
Bruce Swedal is your Littleton Realtor providing professional real estate services to the Denver Real Estate market. Visit to view all Littleton Homes for Sale FREE.
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