Does baking cookies increase the odds of selling your home?

Cookies and coffee? How can you go wrong? I am headed to the bakery right now!

Freshly baked cookies smell nice if you don't burn them. Fresh coffee is great too. I am always in a quandary whether I should do it or not, because cookie crumbs and potential coffee spills in a nice home make me nervous.

The cookies alone will not sell the home, but they will enhance the experience.  It is staging for the nose.

I believe it is ONE of the ingredients to selling your listing! 

Denise

The staging of the home in combination with the smell are two very important ingredients to selling you listing, but does the home meet you clients needs?

Have a Blessed day

It probably helps somewhat, it's better than smelling like cat urine and gives it a homey feel. 

So many things can be done to maximize a homes' appeal!    I recently read that a brokerage - was it Better Homes or Buffet's brand? - is designing their own perfume to scent their homes.   Their premise was to engage yet another of the buyers' senses in the most positive way possible.    

Well I know one thing. When you have them at an Open House, visitors will likely chat a little longer. And face to face contact is what it's all about.

I do open houses with a realtor who brings an entire spread of gourmet sandwiches, cookies, and drinks.  No, I don't think it sells the house, but it sure helps us pick up new buyers!

Now you did it! I want a cookie too! I know what that agent meant. The aroma makes the home smell more like this is what it will be like when I make cookies here.

Cookies! A slow cooker going with a good stew or chili! Whatever it takes to get the job done! We have done hot dogs and cinnamon rolls in the past for the Parade of homes.

I like the idea of fresh brewed Hazelnut Coffee. Just don't let anyone walk around with their cup of coffee where there is carpet:-)

Cookies and milk, my favorite dessert!  I think it's a nice touch to leave cookies out during a showing...but ultimately doesn't make a sale

Fresh baked cookies might smell great, but them alone won't sell a home, but might cause the home not to sell.  The guests will wonder what the smell is covering up.  If the home has a nice clean smell, don't ruin it with fragrances.  If the home has a smell to it, the use something that smells nice, but the lighter the smell, the less people will wonder about a cover up.

I did this a couple of times. People ate all the fresh baked chocolate chip cookies and loved them but no one bought the place. If the trick had worked, I'd be superstitious and baking for every listing I have. 

Amanda and Jared: I am up for anything that could help and cookies seem to help...at least they help me feel better about doing an open house as I eat them with milk. Many decades ago I had a teacher that told us that we could get a similar effect by putting a few drops of vinilla on a piece of foil and baking it in the oven. It does smell wonderful. Not sure it sells homes but based on the smell of some of the homes I have walked into with buyers...it couldn't hurt. 

I bake a cinnamon apple pie to activate the senses that encourage purchasing!

Great post and I completely agree, it takes more than a smell to sell a home. Like the idea of the coffee though at least when I drink it all I won't be mad at myself later.

I say it will not help sell a home. It may create a more pleasant experience but you can't put lipstick on a pig!

I just love the smell and tast of hot cookies..and it makes my day better...help sell the home... not likely... just give a good experience to those that see it and to your sellers how 'hard' you are working. )