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We are getting ready to list in Cary (west, but an older neighborhood). Although I know realtors love a staged home, I am thinking if we vacate and move first before listing that might be best?
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Staging can be done by Realtor on vacant house if deemed necessary.
I always encourage vacating house before listing, even pre-covid, when possible/practical for the seller.
Staging can be done by Realtor on vacant house if deemed necessary.
I always encourage vacating house before listing, even pre-covid, when possible/practical for the seller.
Thank you for your response!
We are not moving far away, so I could always leave behind some furnishings to stage, if needed.
We have been in our home for 20 years, we have a lot of stuff to wade through!
We are getting ready to list in Cary (west, but an older neighborhood). Although I know realtors love a staged home, I am thinking if we vacate and move first before listing that might be best?
In the current environment, moving out before selling is even wiser than ever.
You don't have to stage to sell. Just offer a clean, well-kept property.
What is interesting what I have noted is it looks like the supply vs demand curve is so distorted and lopsided right now for certain price points that it has gone back to the "anything under $x amount will sell right away"
Houses that probably would been perceived as inferior before and thus sat a while (everest driveways, exposed corner lots, powerlines int he back yard) are back to selling quickly because there is just NOTHING out there.
If it's a ranch; forget it. Team mate just listed a ranch for $260k and had 17 offers in 4 days (6 of them site unseen; house is in Durham County so only 3 showings per day means 11 out of the 12 in-person showings made an offer) . Pre-covid I'm sure it still would have been a popular house but not 17 offers in 72 hours worthy.
I do think the fact that the tire-kickers are staying home; and it is pretty much only serious buyers out there now; have made it so that the offers-to-showings ratio has skyrocketed.
Another case in point; the listing I was poking fun at here....
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Originally Posted by TarHeelNick
Getting a listing ready to go active by next weekend. It will be vacant and potentially allowed to have more than 3 showings per day by that time (it is in Durham County by mere feet; across the street is Orange County).
Another agent just listed a property in the same neighborhood with one less bedroom at about 10% higher than comps and took crappy cell-phone pictures that show the place hasn't been thoroughly cleaned in a while. It went active yesterday afternoon and they hilariously put a presumptive "offer deadline" of Monday at noon right from the outset. If that place goes under contract by then....all bets are off.
Is now under contract. Egg all over my face. Good news/timing for my seller and me though!
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What is interesting what I have noted is it looks like the supply vs demand curve is so distorted and lopsided right now for certain price points that it has gone back to the "anything under $x amount will sell right away"
Houses that probably would been perceived as inferior before and thus sat a while (everest driveways, exposed corner lots, powerlines int he back yard) are back to selling quickly because there is just NOTHING out there.
If it's a ranch; forget it. Team mate just listed a ranch for $260k and had 17 offers in 4 days (6 of them site unseen; house is in Durham County so only 3 showings per day means 11 out of the 12 in-person showings made an offer) . Pre-covid I'm sure it still would have been a popular house but not 17 offers in 72 hours worthy.
I do think the fact that the tire-kickers are staying home; and it is pretty much only serious buyers out there now; have made it so that the offers-to-showings ratio has skyrocketed.
Another case in point; the listing I was poking fun at here....
Is now under contract. Egg all over my face. Good news/timing for my seller and me though!
Absolutely true. We looked at--what we thought was--an overpriced house (newly listed) last week. But we looked b/c there's so little available in our school zone. It's now under contract. Nothing similarly sized in that neighborhood has sold anywhere near their price in the past 2 years.
Absolutely true. We looked at--what we thought was--an overpriced house (newly listed) last week. But we looked b/c there's so little available in our school zone. It's now under contract. Nothing similarly sized in that neighborhood has sold anywhere near their price in the past 2 years.
It seems like the choice is overpay or stay put.
What makes you think this place is overpriced? There are jobs, there is infrastructure. Between RTP, Duke, UNC, there are lots of people who can afford these places. Especially if they are coming out of state -- these RE prices are simply "under priced" for them. You can actually have a SFH with a decent lot, in a good neighborhood for 400K-500K that can actually be close to your work?! Find me one place that competes with this place in terms of white collar, IT jobs where you can afford the same? You can't meet all three criteria and still snag something for that price.
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