5 Ways To Market Your Home For A Quick Sale

To sell your home in a timely manner, you need to do more than list your home for sale. You need to make sure that you and your agent are actively marketing your home. Marketing your home will help to get your home in front of potential buyers.

Agent Tours

When you list your home for sale, it is a good idea to hold an open house or tours just for agents and brokers. By inviting agents and brokers to view your home, they will get to see what your home is all about in person, which increases the chance that they will share your listing with potential buyers they are working with who are looking for a home. An agent who looks at your home in person is more likely to promote it to their buyers than someone who looks at your listing online.

Open House

Next, it is essential to host some open houses. An open house usually works best if you live near a high-traffic area. An open house can bring in buyers trying to see as many homes as possible in a day and bring in people who are casually shopping. Often, an open house brings in the person who will buy your home or the person who will recommend your home to someone else who is looking for a home.

Invite your neighbors and your friends. Put up flyers around your neighborhood. List the open house online. Not everyone has time to schedule viewings for all the homes they are interested in, and open houses can be a great way to find a buyer.

Send Out Direct Mail

Next, you can have your agent send out direct mailers using their direct mail list. You can print out colored postcards and mail them out to everyone on your agent's direct mailing list. You can also use the postcard mailers to hand out to friends, neighbors, and other agents to help spread the word that your home is for sale.

Print Advertisement

Print advertisement can still be an effective way to reach a large audience. You can put an advertisement in the local newspaper, with Sundays usually being the best day. Be sure to put the best picture of your home in the advertisement. With local newspapers and weekly papers, you can often run a print advertisement for your home at a low price. This can be a good way to reach affluent buyers who still turn to the paper for their news.

Signage

Putting up a for sale sign in your yard is a highly effective way to advertise that your home is for sale. If you put up a for sale sign, be sure that it lists the real estate agent who is handling your home's sale or information about where your home is listed for sale.

If you want your home to sell quickly, you need to make sure you and your agent engage in a range of different marketing methods to reach as many potential buyers as possible. In-person events, like an agent open house and a general open house, as well as doing things such as sending out direct mail, print advertisements, and signage, are all effective methods for marketing your home.

For more information, contact a real estate agent today.