Selling Your Home in Litchfield County

Selling your home in Litchfield County

You learned a bit about our Ultimate Marketing 24-7, a unique and fully customized marketing program to make sure your house gets all the exposure it can in order to reach as many potential buyers as possible.

HOWEVER....

If you do not price your home correctly you can have all the marketing in the world but the buyers won't come.

We are currently in a buyers market and I do not see that changing in the near future. You need to price your home correctly, aggressively and ahead of the pack in order to beat the competition! There are a few things we can tell you for certain.

• Well priced homes in Litchfield County will get traffic through them
• Well priced homes in Litchfield County stand a better chance of selling
• Well priced homes in Litchfield County are selling

What should you consider when pricing your home for sale in Litchfield County?

• Well priced according to location
• Well priced according to condition
• Well priced according to the current hyper local real estate market

What you cannot consider when priding your home to sell in Litchfield County? What you paid for your home or what you owe on your home. These two things, although very important to a seller, have no relevance to a buyer. This is a tough nut to swallow, but it is the truth.

If you owe more than your house is worth you may want to discuss the possibility of a "short sale" for your home. This is when your lender will agree to take a lesser amount from you to sell your home. You can read about short sales here.

What should you do when getting ready to put your home on the market to sell in Litchfield County? Clean it up, clean it out, give it curb appeal, make it as attractive as possible to the potential buyer. If its broken, fix it. If you put a deck on without a permit, address the issue.

Here are some important articles you should read about selling your home in Litchfield County.

1. Pricing Your Home in a Fragile Market
2. Pricing Your Home to Sell
3. The Great Real Estate Divide, it is a buyers market in Litchfield County
4. Yank that Tank, Underground Oil Tanks in Litchfield County
5. As Is in Real Estate
6. Understanding Buyers 101
7. Do I Really Need a Permit for That?

c Andrea Swiedler 2011

Listing and selling homes in New Milford, Brookfield, Sherman, Roxbury, Bridgewater, Kent, Warren, Washington, Morris, Bethlehem, Litchfield, Goshen, Woodbury, Cornwall, West Cornwall, Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. Andrea Swiedler, Realtor & Liddy Adams, Broker Associate, Swiedler & Adams. Prudential Connecticut Realty, New Milford & Litchfield Connecticut.

 

 

 

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