A lot of people think spring and summer are better times to sell your home than the Holiday Season, but that couldn’t be further from the truth! Winter might actually be the perfect opportunity to put your Dallas home on the market, but you’ll want to make sure you do it right! So here are our tips for selling your home faster during the most wonderful time of the year!
- Taking Professional Photos
- Enhancing Your Curb Appeal
- Utilizing Strategic Price Points
- Staging Your Dallas Home For the Holidays
- Light Your Dallas Home
- Take Photos From Santa’s View
Taking Professional Photos
Home photos may be the first thing potential buyers will see, so you’ll want to make sure you get them done right! Hiring a photographer to take professional photos of your home is the best thing you can do to market your house to buyers, so hire a professional photographer to capture the charm of your home, and make sure you have the photos taken BEFORE you start decorating your Dallas home for the holidays.
Enhancing Your Curb Appeal
When selling your home, curb appeal should always be one of your main focuses. Pick up any sticks on your lawn and pull any weeds you come across to start improving your home’s curb appeal.
Utilizing Strategic Price Points
The first thing a real estate agent may help you with is finding out what price you should expect for your home based on what similar homes in the area are going for. Here are some tips you can use to make the price of your home more appealing to potential buyers.
Price your home below other homes in the neighborhood to drive more traffic to your property. However, if your home comes with special features that similar homes don’t, like a pool, more land, a larger driveway, etc. your marketing should aggressively reflect those additions.
Pricing is your first marketing strategy and that is why it’s important to be educated on pricing in the market before starting the process of selling your home.
Staging Your Dallas Home For the Holidays
Sellers often ask us: “Should I decorate for the holidays even if I’m trying to sell my home?” and the answer to that is “YOU SHOULD!” You may already be accustomed to decorating your home a certain way, but this time, you should try decorating in a way that buyers will find appealing, meaning you’ll want to do it in a way that enhances—not distracts from—your home’s beauty.
The best holiday decorating advice we can give you is to be wary of over-decorating with winter-themed trinkets like snowglobes, nutcrackers, etc. Also, avoid putting a large Christmas tree in your home. The decorations you put up should work to subtly enhance your home’s appeal and direct buyers’ attention to the things they’ll love! So be conservative with your decorations, but have fun with them!
Light Your Dallas Home
If you really want to enhance your house’s coziness, turn the lights on! With winter being the darkest season, you want your home to look warm and inviting to buyers. So change out those burnt-out bulbs and fix those broken light switches you’ve been neglecting. If your living room has a built-in fireplace, you can light it and create an even comfier-looking living space! The main thing to keep in mind is that your house’s lighting should be consistent.
Take Photos From Santa’s View
If your house comes with a lot of outdoor space that’s hard to show with traditional photography, you should use aerial photography to help you! Santa’s point of view can really help show the full scope of what your house has to offer buyers!
The Bottom Line
We understand the hesitation to keep your Dallas home on the market as the days shorten, the weather grows grim, and the busy holiday season rapidly approaches. But taking your home off the market will cause you to miss out on the BIGGEST opportunity for selling your home. If you position yourself correctly, you WILL reap the benefits!
If you need help navigating the fall and winter markets, look no further than EmpowerHome Team! We know the market and can help you get your home SOLD FAST and for TOP DOLLAR this Holiday Season. Don’t wait until Spring when you will get less money for your home—act today and get top dollar!
We sell our listings 3 times FASTER and FOR MORE than when you work with another agent. We do this by leveraging our database of OVER 13,600 qualified buyers in our Buyers in Waiting Program!
Did you know that only 48% of homes that went on the market last year sold the first time with the first agent they hired? Most sellers last year had to call a 2nd or 3rd agent to get the job done, or even worse, not sell at all. The agent you hire the first time matters! EmpowerHome Team sells 98% of our listings the first time, so when you hire us, your home is more likely to sell fast & for top dollar! To find out what we can do for you, Call or Text us at 703-634-6615!
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