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Property owners, you're in the driver's seat
We're really excited to be able to share with you just what we've been up to lately and what we are planning for the future. To begin with we've literally turned traditional real estate on its head - no small task - which is why you haven't heard from us lately! If you're a property owner, it's really important that you know about this as it's going to save you thousands. Confused OK, we'll start at the beginning.
Referral Rewards Programme
The most powerful marketing strategy
Today I'm going to talk about the most powerful marketing strategy when it comes to finding a buyer for your property. Use this strategy and you'll have friends, neighbours and colleagues ready to help find you a buyer. And not only those people you know, you'll even have friends of friends helping, agents helping and even complete strangers. Yes I know, you're thinking "why would a complete stranger be prepared to help me find a buyer"
How one 'regular guy' is actively promoting his property
If you think it's only an Agent that can sell a property then think again! Check out what one 'regular guy' is doing right now to proactively promote his property as a Private Seller. Maurice is not a real estate agent, but that doesn't stop him from taking action to make sure that as many people as possible know his property is for sale. Think long and hard because there is a $10,000 Referral Reward available for a limited time!!
Selling Your Home
The secret of knowing when to sell your property
Whether you should sell your property today, next week or next year has nothing to do with what the market is doing and everything to do with what your personal motivation is.
What affects the final sale price?
Many private sellers rely on casual advice from friends or simply a general rule of thumb when determining an asking price for their property. Regrettably for them, prices determined by using general multiples or rules of thumb may be too high or too low.
What's in a LIM report?
A Land Information Memorandum (LIM) provides information held on the district council's files with regard to the land and buildings that already exist. Buyers are strongly advised to obtain a satisfactory LIM prior to purchasing any real estate in New Zealand.
Pre-Sale Planning
7 Critical Steps You Must Take Before Buyers Arrive
The single most common reason for home staging among sellers is to increase the odds of selling their home. More often than not, any effective and successful home staging gets this job done. To ensure its success, home sellers should complete every aspect of home staging before prospective buyers arrive for their viewing appointments.
The Principal Strategy Behind Every Successful Private Sale
Each and every home seller has a different reason for selling his property. Some may want to move out of a house that's becoming too small for their growing family, while on the other hand others may prefer a smaller house once the children have moved out. Whatever your reasons are, it's crucial to take them into account when planning to sell. Your motivation will determine your strategies and plan of action. Being mindful of these motivations will keep you on the right track.
How to sell privately in the shortest time possible
Private home sellers have different reasons for selling their properties. This can be due to a move imposed by a new job opportunity or one of the many options available following retirement. No matter what reasons private sellers have for selling their houses, one fact remains. The faster one sells his property, the better. Selling your property in the shortest possible time cuts excess cost and expenses in having to maintain a house that no longer serves any purpose to its owners. It will allow private home sellers to continue on with their lives and relieve them from the stress and all the hassle of finding a home buyer for long periods of time.
Sell privately and avoid unnecessary costs
Selling your home privately is less expensive compared to having to pay loads of commission to real estate agents when you try to seek their assistance. But this doesn't mean that there won't be expenses, you will need money to run the whole home sale process. However, it's a vital skill for any seller to learn how to develop a realistic budget and still be successful in selling his property privately.
Here's a quick way to understand real estate statistics
Real estate statistics reflects how the market behaves or reacts at any given time. They give real estate agents, companies, brokers, private home sellers and even buyers a clear idea as to how responsive a certain market is to the existence of properties for sale. The average days of properties in the market before getting sold, average listings prices and percentage of properties being sold are just some of the information that may help stakeholders in determining which steps they are to take in accordance to what the most recent statistics suggests.
Four Critical Steps to Selling Privately
Planning is the first and most important task a private home seller must undertake. The success or failure of a private home sale is directly influenced by how much the sellers have invested in planning for it. When you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Planning is time consuming however the benefit it brings is worth the effort and hard work. An effective plan makes a private home sale manageable, systematic and less stressful leading to its success.
Pricing your Home
I'm not going to give it away!
Pricing a home for sale is never an easy task. Knowing your home's value and adding a healthy mark up doesn't really apply when pricing houses. There are other things to consider in such an undertaking. Having an accurate price for your home is definitely one of the things home sellers must achieve in order to attract more buyers. More interested home buyers means stiffer competition and this increases your chances at striking a good deal at the best price. The most important benefit an accurately priced house gives to home sellers is the ability to get a house sold more quickly. If people find your house fit for the price you've set, they'll have the opportunity to get the most out of their money.
But we've spent so much renovating
One of the most common mistakes home sellers make with regards to pricing their homes is by assuming the cost value is the only basis for their price. The failure to consider how much value the market puts on a property will make selling a house difficult. Many factors affect the market value of a house. In order to come up with the most appropriate and accurate price, home sellers must thoroughly understand each of these factors and how it affects the price of your home.
Advertising and Marketing your Home
What every private seller ought to know about real estate photography
Photos sell real estate, therefore the photos you use to market property should be amazing not mediocre. Professionally taken photography is one of the most important factors when promoting a property for sale and can make all the difference between selling in a timely manner - or not.
3 Reasons Why You Must Use a Great Headline
With a private sale your headline is the first part of your ad that people read or come across. It is your chance to make a statement and arouse people's interest and excitement regarding your property.
Here's the technique that is helping private sellers attract more buyers
Having high quality and attractive photos to represent a property for sale is the initial attention grabber in any promotional ploy. When people see interesting and well shot photos that attract them instantly, they are more likely to read the content of a brochure or click on an advertisement on the Internet. Pictures are powerful marketing and promotional tools that will increase your chances of getting your home sold especially when they are beautifully taken.
The 5 Keys to Property Description Mastery
A property description is the meat of most promotional material. When people read a property description and are convinced of the information incorporated in it, most likely potential buyers will set a viewing appointment with the private seller. Therefore, it's necessary for private home sellers to know how to write convincing and credible property descriptions.
Why Displaying Your Address is so Powerful
In selling your homes privately, there are a number of decisions to be made that would greatly affect your success in it. One of these is choosing whether to display your property address in your advertisement or not. There are a lot of factors to be considered in making this decision. It's wise to remember that the aim of privately selling your home is getting it sold using the most cost effective methods. Therefore, you should pick the choice that accomplishes this objective.
Why Real Estate Videos and Social Media are a Powerful Match
Every private home seller knows the importance of effective marketing schemes. These are employed to arouse interest and attention among your prospective home buyers. The success of a private home sale, or any business for that matter, greatly depends on how well these schemes are able to grab people's attention and keep them interested enough to strike a deal with home sellers.
Create a real estate marketing campaign like Saatchi and Saatchi
Prior to writing your property advert the first thing to do is clearly identify who your most likely buyer is. In order to do this, it's necessary to establish which of the four dominant buying motives are most likely to apply to your particular situation. When choosing a new property, the four dominant buying motives and some of their features include
Showing Your Home
Having an Open Home you can be proud of
Conducting a successful Open Home is probably one of the most important tasks a private seller should undertake. It may require a lot of work but it is proven time and time again to be effective in attracting potential home buyers. The majority of the houses sold by private sellers were achieved through holding an Open Day.
5 tips to hosting an amazing Open Home
Hosting a successful Open Home greatly depends on the ability of a private home seller to professionally and carefully plan, select and utilize the tools and materials that he will need. Remember the main goal of an Open Home is to attract as many interested potential home buyers as possible. How effectively a private home seller utilizes materials such as yard signs, brochures, open home signs and the open home registry determines the success or failure of the Open Home.
What if no one comes to your Open Home?
An Open Home is a vital means of promoting a property which you intend to sell as it is effective in drawing attention and interest from potential home buyers. However, a well planned Open Home is never going to be beneficial without perfect timing. The goal is to ensure that people will visit and take a look at your property. Therefore, it is crucial to determine the best time to conduct an Open Home in ensuring its success.
No one came to our Open Home!
Equally important to the implementation of your plans for your Open Home is the level of awareness you create and sustain with regards to it. You have to make people aware that you are conducting an Open Home. Promotions and everything in between is a continuous process.
The most important way to improve your home's kerb appeal
Home buyers often base their decision on whether or not to check and look inside a house based on a property's kerb appeal. Often home sellers invest most of their time and effort on enhancing the interiors of their properties, neglecting the impact that their property's kerb appeal has on potential buyers. A property's kerb appeal forms a buyer's first impression about the property. If he doesn't like what he sees, he'll not expect to see pleasant things inside your house. Making sure that your property's exterior looks appealing to passing buyers is also an essential aspect of home staging.
3 Vital Ways to Attract More Offers
Evey home seller wants his home to sell fast at his most preferred price and this feat can be achieved through effective home staging. It gets potential buyers interested and enthusiastic and increases the seller's odds in receivng competitive offers. Home staging effectively showcases your home's strengths while minimizing its weak points. It serves as an avenue for your property to be shown at its best. In this manner, you are able to present a well cared for home which draws a positive response from potential buyers.
Why ignoring the shed is the stupidest thing you can do
One of the most neglected areas during home staging is the shed or garage. Most home sellers use the shed as a temporary storage area for clutter and excess belongings while staging their properties. They fail to realize that home buyers will inspect every nook and cranny of their property including the shed. It's wise to keep your shed tidy and ready for inspection at all times since you'll never know when potential buyers might turn up.
5 Low Cost Ways to Add Immediate Value to Your Home
The easiest way to add value to your property is by making simple home improvements. Through updating fixtures, furniture and other items in your home, you will immediately increase the selling price of your property. However, home sellers need to understand that undergoing such improvements need not be costly and expensive. It's wise to take cost effective ways to improve the value of your home.
Negotiating the Offer
Zen and the Art of Negotiation
Negotiating is a crucial part of home selling. Whether you're a seller or buyer, understanding how to strike a good deal through negotiating is vital. Remember that the goal is a win-win situation for both parties. A good deal starts when the seller and buyer understand each other perfectly.
A five minute guide to more persuasive negotiation
Equally important to starting a private home sale well is closing the deal. No matter how well a property is marketed, promoted and staged, it's bound to fail when the seller doesn't know how to negotiate. Knowing how to negotiate well is a skill home sellers like you should develop. A good deal can potentially become the best deal when you know how to negotiate effectively.
The Retirement Centre
5 Good reasons to remain in your home after retirement
When retirement age comes, a lot of people are presented with varied options on how to continue on with their lives. One of the many routes a retiree can go through is moving to a new place, a new home. Considering to stay or move out of your home after retirement is a major decision to be made in one?s life.
Should you sell your home after retirement?
Retirement means a lot of different things to different types of people. The perception varies so immensely that one has to experience it to really know what it is. However, one fact remains unchangeable about retirement. Its a definite end to ones profession or career. The road does not end there, though. It can, instead, mean a much freer state to make certain decisions in life such as selling and relocating or moving to a new home.
For Sale By Auction
Selling real estate by public auction
In New Zealand there are a number of different methods used to sell real estate and many people will already be familiar with the Auction, Tender and Private Treaty methods. Every method has its pros and cons as well as detractors and supporters amongst the buying and selling public.
For Sale by Tender
Selling real estate by tender
A call for tenders or an invitation to tender (tender) is a special procedure for generating competing offers from different bidders looking to obtain a property. When buying and selling real estate in New Zealand, there is no one method that is universally accepted as best practice as both the property itself and the circumstances surrounding each sale contain wide ranging variables.
For Sale by Private Treaty
Selling real estate by private treaty
Selling real estate by Private Treaty is the traditional method of selling a property in New Zealand. Private Treaty simply means that a property is being sold at an agreed price by the seller to the buyer without using the auction or tender process.
Buying a home
5 Tips for buying a lifestyle property
Buying a lifestyle property remains an attractive proposition to a wide variety of buyers; dreams of escaping from the pressures of city living helps to fill in idle moments as do thoughts of downsizing from the family farm when it comes time for succession.
Here are 6 easy steps to buying your first home
Buying your first home can be a very challenging, yet highly exhilarating experience. Following these 6 easy steps will help you to get to where you want to be.