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West Chester & Mason Ohio Real Estate: This Month In Real Estate – June 2012

June 18, 2012 by Eric Lowry Leave a Comment

This Month In Real Estate – June 2012

West Chester & Mason Ohio Real Estate - This Month In Real Estate

This Month In Real Estate for June 2012 covers the most common repairs that homeowners make before putting a home on the market for sale.  Keller Williams research shows that the most common repairs home sellers make before listing their home for sale are roof repairs, plumbing & electrical as well as heating and cooling systems.  Home inspections are a critical step in the process of selling a home as well as buying a home.

Other articles that may interest you:

Listing Your Home For Sale

Top 10 Tips When Selling A Home

Filed Under: Eric Lowry's Articles, Preparing Your Home For Sale, This Month In Real Estate Tagged With: Eric Lowry, Keller Williams Realty, Liberty Township Real Estate, LowryTeam.com, Mason Ohio Real Estate, preparing your home for sale, Preparing Your Home For The Market, This Month In Real Estate, VIPHomeFinder.com, West Chester Ohio Real Estate

Listing Your West Chester OH Home For Sale

March 26, 2012 by Eric Lowry Leave a Comment

Listing Your West Chester OH Home For Sale

Thinking of selling your West Chester, Liberty Township or Mason Ohio home?

The Spring Real Estate Market Is Here

The best time to sell your home in 2012 is right now.  We are heading into the spring market and home sales will be at their highest levels for the next four months.  Both local homebuyers as well as the relocation buyers begin their home search process at this time of year so as to time the end of school year for their move.  Interested in learning how to prepare your home for sale? We are happy to help.  We can do a no obligation walk thru of your home with you to advise you on strategies that can get your home sold quickly for the highest possible price.

Wondering if your home will even sell?  A lot of people are asking that question.  Our answer… Who Says Homes Aren’t Selling??

Interested in learning the current market value of  your home?  Learn your home’s value here.

Ready to List?  Call or text Eric Lowry at 513-368-3751 or just fill in the contact form below and we will respond as quickly as we can!

Filed Under: Eric Lowry's Articles, Preparing Your Home For Sale, Real Estate News Tagged With: Cincinnati, Eric Lowry, Eric's Hassle Free Listing, Home Values, Keller Williams Realty, Liberty Township Real Estate, Market Value Of My Home, Mason OH Home Values, Mason Ohio Real Estate, Ohio, preparing your home for sale, Preparing Your Home For The Market, Top Real Estate Agent, Top Selling Realtor, West Chester, West Chester Home Values, West Chester Real Estate

West Chester & Mason Ohio Real Estate: This Month In Real Estate – March 2012

March 6, 2012 by Eric Lowry Leave a Comment

West Chester & Mason Ohio Real Estate: This Month In Real Estate – March 2012

 

This Month In Real Estate for West Chester, Liberty Township and Mason Ohio real estate covers getting your home sold sooner than the competition and today’s continuing low interest rates.

Interest mortgage rates continue to hover in the range of 4.00% providing for great opportunity to lock in interest rates on the purchase of a home, that may not present themselves again for many, many years.

Getting your home sold a month sooner than the competition.  Home owners that priced their home based on their agent’s recommendation of a list price sell almost twice as fast and for more money than their competition.  As for the strategy of starting high with the price…  Yes, the buyers can always amke an offer, you just need to make sure it’s on your home.

Filed Under: Eric Lowry's Articles, Financing, Real Estate News, This Month In Real Estate Tagged With: Cincinnati, Eric Lowry, Eric's Hassle Free Listing, Interest Rates, Keller Williams Realty, Liberty Township Real Estate, LowryTeam.com, Mason Ohio Real Estate, mortgage lenders, Mortgage Preapprovals, Ohio, preparing your home for sale, Preparing Your Home For The Market, Selling A Home, This Month In Real Estate, Top Selling Realtor, VIPHomeFinder.com, West Chester Real Estate

Top 10 Tips When Selling a Home In West Chester, Liberty Twp Or Mason Ohio

September 19, 2011 by Eric Lowry Leave a Comment

Top 10 Tips When Selling a Home In West Chester, Liberty Twp Or Mason Ohio

Top Tips For Selling A Home In Today's MarketSelling a home in a down economy can be a challenging thing to do.  Use the following 10 tips when selling your West Chester, Liberty Township or Mason OH home to get your home sold for the highest possible price in the least amount of time.

Home Selling Tip #1:  Hire an experienced and reputable real estate agent. Selling a home can be stressful, and you want an experienced and reliable real estate agent you can count on and trust to guide you through the selling of your home.

Home Selling Tip #2: Give your home curb appeal. When selling a home, you need to keep your home looking its best. If a buyer is turned off by what your home looks like from the street, you will never get him or her inside to look around. Clean up your lawn, patch brown spots in the grass, clear sidewalks, and keep leaves and other debris picked up. Potential homeTop Tips For Selling A Home In Today's Market buyers also notice things like chipped paint and dirty siding, so pressure-wash your home and repaint before putting it on the market if needed. Do whatever you need to do to show buyers that you’re serious about your home’s maintenance.

Home Selling Tip #3: Make minor repairs to your home. Don’t give potential home buyers an opportunity to start nitpicking at the value of your home by leaving minor repairs unfixed. Replace cracked floor or counter tiles. Patch holes in walls. Fix leaky faucets. Fix doors that don’t close properly and kitchen drawers that jam. Consider painting your walls neutral colors, especially if you have grown accustomed to purple or pink walls. Replace burned-out light bulbs.

Preparing Your Home For Sale In Today's MarketHome Selling Tip #4: Stage your home. Once you have a potential home buyer inside, it’s important that your home has been spruced up and has been staged for the market. Think of your home as a product for sale, and imagine walking through it from the buyer’s perspective. Depersonalize it by packing up family heirlooms and photos. You want buyers to imagine themselves living in the home and they won’t do that if they can’t see past your stuff. Rent a storage unit and clear out the junk. De-clutter. Remove unused pieces of furniture and window coverings and light fixtures you are going to take with you. Each room should be left with just enough furniture to showcase it as the perfect room for its purpose. Remove books, knickknacks, and anything that seems deeply personal. Clear out closets and neatly arrange your dishes in the kitchen cupboards.

Home Selling Tip #5: Clean your home! Wash windows inside and out. Clean out cobwebs from corners, ceiling fan blades and light fixtures. Re-caulk tubs, showers and sinks. Polish chrome faucets and mirrors. Clean out the refrigerator. Vacuum daily.  Remove or replace worn rugs. Hang up fresh towels in the bathroom. Eliminate any musty odors.

Home Selling Tip #6: Price your home right. Of all of the 10 tips for selling a home, this one is the most important. You need to price your home competitively, perhaps slightly lower than comparable homes in your neighborhood. Unfortunately, many sellers choose the real estate agent who suggests the highest listing price, but this can come back to haunt you. Pricing your home to sell involves looking at similar properties, making adjustments for the differences between them, tracking market movements and considering present inventory to arrive at a realistic value for the price of your home. Setting your listing price just right could lead to a bidding war, resulting in a higher sales price for you. Be sure that you and your Realtor work together to price your home correctly.

Home Selling Tip #7: Capture initial excitement. Don’t put your home on the market before your home and you are completely ready. Make sure you have taken all of the steps above before placing your home on the market. When selling a home, you need to get the most out of the initial excitement that a new home listing creates in potential home buyers. Home buyers will feel like they have discovered a great find if they snatch up a home just as it comes on the market. Once it’s been listed for a few weeks, however, home buyers will conclude that it’s not such a great value. Therefore, when selling a home, make sure you’ve done everything you can to make your home attractive to potential home buyers.

Home Selling Tip #8: Don’t get in over your head. Put your home on the market well in advance of looking for a new home. Don’t place an offer on your next home until you have solid offers on the one you have to sell now. The last thing you want to do is juggle two mortgage payments.

Home Selling Tip #9: Only divulge information on a need-to-know basis. Don’t do anything to create a perception that you will lower your potential selling price. For example, if you are moving due to job relocation, don’t offer up that information. Don’t let the potential home buyers think there is any urgency on your part in selling the home. If you are asked why you’re selling, simply say that you’re ready to trade up. You have a legal obligation to disclose information about the condition of the home and property, but you are not obligated to disclose your personal situation.

Home Selling Tip #10: Be flexible. Be willing to work with potential home buyers to help your chances of making a quick sale. Offer to pay for closing costs or repairs, and be adaptable when it comes to showing your home. If you really need to sell, you need to accommodate buyers’ busy schedules. This might mean opening your home for showings on weeknights and weekends. Using these 10 tips when selling a home can help you sell your home fast and for a good price.

Wondering what your home’s current market value is??

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Other articles that you may find of interest:

The Top Reasons Your Home Didn’t Sell

How To Sell Your West Chester, Liberty Twp or Mason OH Home Now

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    Filed Under: Eric Lowry's Articles, Preparing Your Home For Sale Tagged With: Determining the price of your home, Eric Lowry, Keller Williams Realty, LowryTeam.com, preparing your home for sale, Preparing Your Home For The Market, Pricing your home for sale, Selling A Home, Staging a home for sale, Top Real Estate Agent, Top Selling Realtor, VIPHomeFinder.com

    West Chester & Liberty Township OH Real Estate: Tuesday Open House – April 5th, 2011

    April 5, 2011 by Eric Lowry Leave a Comment

    Search Homes For Sale In West Chester OhioIt’s Tuesday, so this must be the Tuesday Open House.

    What is Tuesday Open House?? Well, it’s clearly not an “open house”. Open Houses don’t sell homes… good internet marketing does… but it seemed like a good title for this weekly blog post.

    It is my way of throwing the doors open on the RealEstate-Ink.com blog and offering up a few quick articles and facts on real estate for the West Chester, Liberty Township, Beckett Ridge, Mason and Fairfield Township, Ohio areas. It is not intended to be all about homes for sale, but it will be about that some of the time…

    Preparing your home for sale

     

    Need Mulch? If you are preparing your home to get it on the market for sale soon,  don’t forget the curb appeal. As the old saying goes… you only get one chance to make a good first impression. So clean up the landscaping and get yourself some fresh mulch. I’m not sure that there is a better way to go than to get it from the boy scouts. They even deliver! You can just go directly to the boy scouts site right here. My mulch is being delivered in just a couple of weeks…anyone like to help??

    Search Bank Owned Homes & Short Sale Properties

     

    Searching For Bank Owned or Short Sale Homes For Sale?  You can search for bank owned homes for sale as well as short properties using our real estate search tool:  LowryTeam.com You can create your own search criteria, save your searches, get alerts of newly listed homes for sale and much more!

    Beckett Ridge Ohio Real Estate

     

    Beckett Ridge Community Garage Sale:  The Beckett Ridge community garage sale is scheduled for Saturday, May 14th, 2011 from 8:00am – 4:00pm.  The Beckett Ridge Homeowners Association will run ads in the local newspapers.  You can find more information regarding the Beckett Ridge garage sale and the homeowners association on the Beckett Ridge Homeowners Association website: http://www.beckett-ridge.org/

    Lowry Team Real Estate on FacebookOur facebook fan page of the week is: West Chester Township It is a brand new page on Facebook for West Chester Township!  You can find information on events and news going on in our township.  As of this writing their page very few friends, so I ask that you visit their fan page, become a fan and invite your facebook friends to do the same.

    While you are on facebook checking out West Chester Township, please visit and become a fan of our facebook page: www.Facebook.com/LowryTeamRealEstate

    What is my home worth? Want to get a good idea of what your home is worth… Get your own Personal Real Estate Market Update

    Searching for homes for sale?  Search all of the homes for sale in West Chester, Beckett Ridge, Liberty Township, Mason or Monroe Ohio… Search The MLS

     

    Filed Under: Eric Lowry's Articles, Just For Fun, Real Estate Information, Real Estate News, Short Sale / Foreclosure, West Chester Community Info Tagged With: Bank Owned Homes, Beckett Ridge Real Estate, Buying Short Sales, Cincinnati, Eric Lowry, Keller Williams Realty, Liberty Township Ohio Short Sale, Liberty Township Real Estate, LowryTeam.com, Ohio, preparing your home for sale, Preparing Your Home For The Market, Search Homes For Sale, Search The MLS, Top Real Estate Agent, Top Selling Realtor, Tuesday Open House, VIPHomeFinder.com, West Chester Ohio Short Sales, West Chester Real Estate

    West Chester Real Estate:What Impact Does Homearama Have On Home Sales

    January 26, 2011 by Eric Lowry Leave a Comment

    What Impact Does Homearama Have On Home Sales?

    Homearama 2011 is coming to West Chester, Ohio and it is sure to generate a lot of excitement, with large crowds and lots of exposure for West Chester and Liberty Township Ohio real estate.  Good press for the West Chester community and a little excitement for the housing market in our area are certainly welcome.

    But what is the impact of Homearama 2011 on luxury home sales in West Chester and Liberty Township?

    First let’s establish that the exposure and excitement generated by the luxury home show are definite positives and truly a good thing.  The show organizers have estimated that as many as 40,000 consumers will visit the show.  That’s good news for West Chester restaurants and businesses.

    What the true impact on luxury home sales in West Chester and Liberty Township is might not be as rosy.  If you establish that the luxury home market in West Chester and Liberty Township is defined as $500,000 and up, here’s what it looks like:

    There are currently 35 homes for sale in West Chester and Liberty Township in this price range.

    In the last 6 months there have been 13 homes sold and closed in this same price range, which is an average of 2 homes per month.  This means there is a 16 month supply of homes for sale in this luxury home market.  This is a large oversupply of homes for sale in this price range and the Homearama luxury home show is adding to it.  According to the Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati at least 7 homes will be built, with 2 of them having been pre-sold.  As of this writing 5 of the homes are listed for sale in the Multiple Listing Service of Greater Cincinnati (MLS).

    So what is the issue?  The issue is… if you are thinking of selling your luxury home in West Chester or Liberty Township your competition just got tougher and now there is more of it.  16 months of inventory is alot.  16 months of inventory means that if no new listings come on the market in this price range and homes continue to sell at their current pace, it would take until approx. June 1st of 2012 to get all of the homes sold!

    The solution?  If you have a home to sell in the luxury home price range ($500,000 and up) you need to do 3 things:

    1.)  Get your home professionally staged – you’re competing with homearama homes here.

    2.)  Get your home on the market now before more inventory causes even more pricing pressure.

    3.)  Price your home to sell based on a detailed market value analysis.

    Wondering what your home is worth in today’s real estate market?  Request a market analysis here! Click Here To Search For Luxury Homes For Sale In West Chester and Liberty Township!

    Filed Under: Eric Lowry's Articles, Liberty Township Ohio Homes For Sale, Market Update, Real Estate Information, Real Estate Market Reports, Real Estate Market Statistics, Real Estate News, West Chester Community Info, West Chester Ohio Homes For Sale Tagged With: Cincinnati, Homearama, Liberty Township Real Estate, Luxury Home Show, Luxury Homes, Ohio, Preparing Your Home For The Market, Search Homes For Sale, Search The MLS, Searching For A New Home, Selling A Luxury Home, West Chester Ohio Luxury Home, West Chester Real Estate

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