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Add Your Home to the Florida Housing Market

by Barry Dunleavy 01/22/2018

Adding your Florida residence to the local housing market should be simple. However, home sellers who are hoping to maximize the value of their house will need to plan ahead to ensure they can generate plenty of interest in their residence.

What does it take to list your Florida home on the local real estate market and optimize your residence's value? Here are three tips that every home seller needs to know before adding their Florida residence to the local housing market.

1. Hire a Real Estate Agent.

A real estate agent offers expert guidance, and as such, will ensure your home listing is shared with a large group of potential homebuyers throughout Florida. Plus, this professional will be ready to respond to any of your concerns or questions throughout the home selling process, guaranteeing you can receive plenty of support as you sell your residence.

With a real estate agent at your side, you should have no trouble promoting your residence to a broad array of homebuyers. Your real estate agent will work with you, learn about your home's strengths and weaknesses and highlight your residence to the right group of homebuyers consistently.

Perhaps best of all, your real estate agent works for you and will keep your best interests in mind. Thus, you and your real estate agent can discuss the pros and cons of various home selling strategies and work together toward a common goal: optimizing the value of your residence.

2. Set a Fair Price for Your Home.

Let's face it – the Florida real estate market is filled with many great homes. To ensure your home stands out from the crowd, you'll want to establish a fair price that makes your residence attractive to homebuyers. At the same time, you don't want to lose money, so you'll want to set a price that allows you to maximize the value of your house.

Review the Florida real estate market closely and evaluate homes that are similar to your own. By doing so, you can better understand the price range of similar homes in your area and price your residence accordingly.

Also, don't forget to rely on your real estate agent for help with pricing your residence. This professional will be able to help you differentiate a buyer's market from a seller's one and determine the right price for your residence based on the current market conditions.

3. Get Your Home Ready for Showings.

How does your home's front lawn look? And does your home's interior need to be revamped? Ultimately, you'll want to spend some time examining your home's exterior and interior to ensure your residence looks amazing inside and out.

Committing even a few hours each day to cleaning your Florida residence can make a world of difference in the eyes of homebuyers. And if you can transform your home's exterior and interior, you should be able to generate lots of interest in your residence.

Use the aforementioned home selling tips, and you can boost your chances of maximizing the value of your Florida home.

About the Author
Author

Barry Dunleavy

Over 25 Years in the Real Estate Industry. Former Senior Managing Director with responsibility for oversight of real estate businesses in Canada and Latin America including CEO of Canadian-based bank; prior to that Sr. Managing Director Construction Financing to large residential builders throughout the USA. He has a BA and MBA in Finance. Memberships include the Naples Board of Realtors, Graduate Realtors Institute, Institute for Luxury Home Marketing, Florida Realtors, and the National Association of Realtors. Community activities include New Horizons of Southwest Florida volunteer teaching math and reading to at-risk 3rd to 5th graders while being Chair of their 2016-2018 Golf Event and also involved with the Christian Businessmen's Connection. 2014 Awarded the Distinguished Volunteer for Collier County. He was a former Board of Governors of Hazeltine National Golf Club, host of the upcoming 2016 Ryder Cup Championship.