When you place your home “For Sale” on the market, you need to seize every opportunity to wow potential buyers. Your home may offer great square footage at an affordable price, but so do many other houses on the market. To make a good impression, you need your home to stand apart from the rest. You can easily accomplish this task through staging your home. Staging is the process of improving your home before it goes up for sale. It includes both major and minor renovations - everything from … [Read more...]
Showing a Missouri City Property – Occupied or Not, it’s a Balancing Act!
In a perfect world, before you set about selling your Missouri City property you would have emptied it of all evidence of human habitation, called in the best staging pros on the planet, and set off to vacation in a Caribbean island spa-hotel so you could sift through the dozens of offers in comfort. “Let’s see,” you would soon be musing to no one in particular, sipping your first mimosa of the afternoon as you thumbed through the sheaf of faxes from your Missouri City agent; “should I accept … [Read more...]
Housing News that Missouri City Homeowners Have Been Waiting For
For Missouri City, Texas homeowners, the news was a long time coming. The bounce back from last decade’s dizzying plummet in the nation’s residential housing values has been underway for quite a while now—but those values hadn’t quite returned to their former heights. Until last month! The Wall Street Journal was early to break the long-awaited headline, “Existing-Home Prices Hit Record: $236,400.” Using just-released June sales numbers, the Journal reported that the nation’s average … [Read more...]
Taking the Fizz out of FSBO: Selling a Missouri City Home Yourself
You pronounce it “FIZZ-bow.” That’s FSBO: For Sale by Owner, and it’s the Road Less Travelled by area homeowners bent on selling a home in Missouri City as economically as possible. It does seem to make common sense, after all. It’s the homeowner who knows the ins and outs of their own home best—so who could be more qualified to show it off to the buyers who’ll be lined up, waiting to take a look? And even more to the point, why lose any part of the sale proceeds to some Missouri City real … [Read more...]
Finding a Home’s Sugar Land Listing Price: More Art than Science
A Sugar Land listing can be a smash hit when the pictures show a property that’s cosmetically appealing, the copy rings true, and the details hit the sweet spot where features and value are a match for the best the area has to offer. But it still might not be as effective as it should be if one other detail is a little bit off. It’s a detail that can cause qualified buyers—the ones who should be a home’s most interested prospects— to miss the whole show. I suppose that calling that part of a … [Read more...]
