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Selling Your Kissimmee Area Home- Insider tips from a local Real Estate Broker

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with St.Cloud Homes

Selling Your Kissimmee Area Home- Insider tips from a local Real Estate Broker
Is your Realtor® inflating your ego by telling you what you want to hear, or what you need to know? Too often in order to obtain a listing Real Estate Professionals despite what the market analysis reveals, will take an over priced listing to placate a seller. The result is predictable; the house does not sell. This is particularly true in my market, where we see homes for sale in Kissimmee, St Cloud Florida all over the place.

Our current housing market is price driven. There are so many properties for sale in Kissimmee and St Cloud Florida including bank owned, and short sales (where the seller owes more than the house is worth) and foreclosure properties (where the bank now owns the property and must liquidate) that traditional sellers face a real quandary. But, a traditional seller (real person) not a bank, or Loan Mitigation Department does have an advantage.

Banks will hire professionals such as myself to give a Broker's Price Opinion. This is done by determining the present value, based on location, size, condition and previous recent sales in the neighborhood.

What a home seller thinks their Kissimmee St Cloud Florida home for sale it is worth and what a property will actually sell for are often very different.  It is our job, to present the facts and previous sales which determine the curtrent market value.

 

The most common question a buyer will ask me is: "How long has it been on the market?"
The time frame to maximize exposure is critically important. In Real Estate the first 90 days, will attract the most interest in a property. The longer a home sits on the market, it signals something is generally wrong. Usually it is the price.

Pricing your Kissimmee St Cloud Florida home too high against others which are comparable, results in helping your neighbor sell their home. Not exactly what you had planned on right?

So here is the inside Scoop...

The market changes daily. In declining areas, an over priced home chases the downward market losing prospective buyers each and every day. A home priced properly, can and usually does result in multiple competiting offers. The highest and best offer generally wins.  Contingencies like "sale of existing home" do not work.

 

Certain price ranges have numerous buyers competing for well priced properties. The lowest priced home will sell fastest. The highest prices ones usually do not. Realtors do not set the market-they can only analysis it. Buyers are controlling what sells and for how much with purchases.

Hitting the bulls eye in pricing your Kissimmee St Cloud Fl home will attract numerous buyers, and result in an offer. An offer can result in a sale. Goal Met.

You need a competent Real Estate Professional like myself, who understands the current market conditions, changing times , and can guide you through the process of listing and selling your Kissimmee St Cloud Home quickly.

 

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St.Cloud Homes

Allison Stewart Broker, SFR, CDPE 

407-616-9904www.kissimmee-stcloudflhomes.com

                                                                                                       

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Comments(5)

Joan Whitebook
BHG The Masiello Group - Nashua, NH
Consumer Focused Real Estate Services

I think you have hit the nail on the head..pricing and the 1st 90 days are critical.

May 31, 2012 01:11 PM
Angela St. John
Classic Properties - Gainesville, FL
REALTOR Classic , Properties ~ Gainesville, FL Re

Hi fellow Floridian! Also agree on price.  Even though it seems like a fairly obvious point, sellers really have a hard time being convinced to price with their best foot forward.  They want to stick their toe in the water and try for a higher price "just so they know".  When they listen to reason as to why that can cost them money in the long run (including extra mortgage payments while the home sits for a few months during that strategy), they are ultimately more successful.

May 31, 2012 01:25 PM
Allison Stewart
St.Cloud Homes - Saint Cloud, FL
St. Cloud Fl Realtor, Osceola County Real Estate 407-616-9904

Wow..a gold star!  Thanks AR ! 

Hi Joan- I know the NH market is much healthier and higher than ours is here in Central Florida, but themarket is what it is and if a sale is what you are hoping to achieve the price will make or break you.

Angela Hi!  I agree- testing the water is not the way to sell a home.  The numbers are what they are.  It may not result in you getting the listing, but it will do wonders for your reputation and referral if you are just honest with sellers and let the comps show them what it is most likely to achieve.  Thank you for commenting.

May 31, 2012 07:34 PM
Tracy Oliva
West USA Realty - Arizona - Fountain Hills, AZ
The Oliva Team Arizona Agents

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! great Info for all in the bussssss,keep up the good work and goos luck in 2012, E

May 31, 2012 10:08 PM
Sharon Alters
Coldwell Banker Vanguard Realty - 904-673-2308 - Fleming Island, FL
Realtor - Homes for Sale Fleming Island FL

Allison, love your point about the first 90 days being critical. And Sellers do tend to think their house is worth more than it is. MIT did a study on it.

Sharon

Jun 10, 2012 12:57 PM