Pricing your Property To Sell

It is vital in our slow Vancouver real estate market to hire an experienced Realtor who has deep roots in a community. In doing this, you can rely on their expertise in pricing your Vancouver home for sale. The price might be disappointing, but it is very important for you to be realistic on what your home is worth. Forget what you were told its worth even one year ago. Trust your Realtor and your property’s price will be competitive in this tough market and will sell in a timely fashion.

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Terrie With Her Office Assistants

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When Will the Real Estate Market Stabalize

This is an interesting fact: Nationally about 24%  of the homes on the market had a 1% drop in price compared to  15% of the homes dropping last month. The fact is that home prices were so high by 2006 , that it will take probably in my opinion till year 2015 to get some normalcy and back to a stable market.

 Terrie Cox, PC, GRI, CRS, CDPE, ABR, e-Pro, CLHMS
#31 Agent in the USA (2010) Ranked as high as 89 in the World
 Re/Max Equity Group – Licensed Oregon & Washington

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New Signs of the Market Growth

A survey conducted by Campbell Communications, shows that short sales account for 12.5% of property sales in July 2009.

A short sale is when a property sells for less than the existing mortgage. This is often done so the homeowner can avoid foreclosure. These sales are more time-consuming and complicated. Thus agents need to be experienced and educated on how to assist homeowners in these situations. I would suggest  you need assistance in this process.

We will be seeing more and more short sales as the market continues to adjust as more consumers take advantage of the government’s Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives program. This program streamlines the short sale process, making it simpler for the seller, buyer and the mortgage holder.

I would be privileged to explain and then assist you in this process of either selling or purchasing a new home.

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Flowers Add Instant Curb Appeal

First impressions count, especially with potential buyers when they come to view your home for sale! Curb appeal sells houses. Inexpensive pretty flowers in beds, borders, pots and containers can quickly fix up the street view appearance of your home. Homeowners or sellers who want to enhance or improve the curb appeal of their home look to making a great first impression by landscaping inexpensively with flowers. Realtors who actively market houses, and successful home sellers, know it pays to plant flowers for that quick fix for the spruce up of the front yard.

Instantly make the entire front yard look groomed and well cared for by edging the flower beds so they have a well defined, crisp outline.  Ask your local professionally trained nursery staff for help picking flowers that will thrive in your area and the ones that will do best in your flower beds. After carefully preparing the areas to plant by loosening the soil down at least 6 inches, add some compost or other organic matter and be sure most of the weeds are taken out. When you plant, apply a general purpose, slow release, granular fertilizer to help keep the flowers blooming for that ‘all season’ curb appeal.  Curb appeal helps sell your home fast, and flowers instantly add to your landscape and your home’s curb appeal, enhancing that all important first impression, and helping market your house, inviting real estate agents to show it, and enticing potential homebuyers to come inside and view the property.

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