Selling Your Long Beach Home

LONG BEACH REAL ESTATE

Selling YOUR Long Beach Home?

 It's TOUGH out there!

Are YOU ready for this Real Estate Market?

 
Today's Long Beach Real Estate market is demanding an entirely new approach when selling your Long Beach Homes or Condos.  If your home is on the market you already know just how tough it can be to just get showings.  You have probably reduced your price at least once and are wondering how low you will have to go to actually make that elusive sale.  

PRICING YOUR LONG BEACH HOMES OR CONDOS

The worst mistake a seller can make is to overprice their Long Beach Home.  The first two to three weeks on the market are critical when you enter the market.  Thinking that you can test the market and lower the price later is never a good idea.  The goal should be to price your Long Beach homes to sell quickly while they are generating the most interest - as a new listing.  There are many homes and condos in Long Beach on the market, too many of which are not priced to sell.  When a buyer sees a property that is overpriced they just pass it by.  Buyers are always looking for new listings just coming onto the real estate market, because much of what is already listed is just not all that desirable and often overpriced.  Another terrible mistake any seller can make is to believe their home or condo is still worth what homes in their Long Beach Neighborhoods were commanding months ago. 

• Read: My Long Beach Home Won't Sell - Are YOU Chasing the Market Down?

If your home is overpriced it is time to take a giant leap and get ahead of the curve.  Pricing your home under today's market price usually means that by the time it actually closes you will be at market price.  Yes, prices seem to be dropping that quickly.  Why not?  They rose that quickly when it was a hot sellers market. Home sales in Long Beach are traditionally slower through the winter months making selling your Long Beach home or condo that much more difficult during these months.  If you do not need to sell your Long Beach home at this time, this is not the time to be on the market.  Speculating in this market is futile. 

HOME STAGING YOUR LONG BEACH HOMES OR CONDOS

There are no guarantees on today's real estate market.  You can do everything right and still not sell.  Home Staging is a great way to freshen up and depersonalize your Long Beach home.  De-cluttering and removing family pictures and any other deeply personal items allow a buyer to envision their own possessions in the space. Show your home as the home the buyer will want to call their home. Remember, it is not luck that will sell your home, it is prepping and staging that will help make that elusive sale a reality. 

• Read:  Why Stage Your Long Beach Homes or Condos
• Home Staging Can Sell Long Beach Homes Faster
• Seller Tips - Preparing Your Long Beach Home For Sale
• Curb Appeal on a Budget

 MARKETING YOUR LONG BEACH HOMES OR CONDOS

Traditional marketing and advertising utilized by Realtors for many years, no longer works. 

• Signs - only work if consumers are driving around looking for them.  They are not. 
• Print Advertising - only works if consumers are actually reading the periodicals.  They are not. 
• Direct Mail - only works if the consumer looks at it before tossing it into the trash.  They are not. 
• Open Houses - why would a consumer run around for a few hours on somebody else's schedule if they can view all available properties on the internet, from the comfort of their own home, see multiple pictures, slide shows and videos of properties and carefully select those which they are interested in? 

• Read: Open Houses - Do They Sell Your Long Beach Home?

So what does work?   Internet marketing works.  Blogging works.  Placing your property on the Internet and sending it to the top of the engines where it is visible by the shopping consumer works.  While many agents have websites and are trying their hand at blogging, only a select few have the technical knowledge to market your home online successfully.  Most Realtors do not know what SEO means.  Do you?  SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, it is quite simple actually.  SEO is the optimization of a web or blog site for optimum placement on the search engines.  Why is that necessary?  So that your home will be found by the shopping consumer.  What is the point in placing information on the internet if it is never going to be found? 

How many actual Realtor websites do you find when you place realistic search terms into a Google or Yahoo search engine?  The answer is few.  What you will find are tons of directory sites and large sites trying to get your contact information to sell it to Realtors who cannot generate leads for themselves.  You will also find sites with big names offering property searches.  Look closer, few of them claim to have ALL available properties in any area.  Do you want to know why?  Because they do not have ALL available properties in any area.  They have agreements with just a couple of the larger brokerages and display their listings only.  Few sites actually offer a complete MLS search.   The Long Beach Real Estate Home site offers a top notch Free full SoCalMLS Search, updated regularly, at great expense to us - we deliver only the best. 

• Read:  Selling Your Long Beach California Home? Its a Whole New Game!
  
• Marketing Your Long Beach CA Real Estate For All That it is Worth!
• Long Beach Homes and Condos - Negotiating Your Offer

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Posted on November 10, 2007 23:17:01 by Laurie.Manny

Comment from: Erin [Visitor] · http://www.hiphoods.com

Very sounds advice that anyone should follow when selling their home anywhere. I agree - the first few weeks are critical, especially in a market where houses aren't selling as fast as they used to.

Permalink November 13, 2007 23:08:11

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