Busy Road? Emphasize Your Home's Positive Aspects
New Jersey home sellers know selling a home on a busy street requires a determined seller who emphasizes the positive aspects of the home. Well-manicured yard with tons of curb appeal? Check. Over-sized lot with zoning options for a professional home office? Double Check. According to many New Jersey real estate professionals with experience selling homes on busy streets, these are just a few ways to attract interest on those busy streets with the double yellow lines painted down the middle, and reach your goal of a Under Contract Sign in your front yard.
There are advantages to having the home on a busy street. There's more traffic coming by and more potential buyers are seeing the property daily, so it is important that your NJ REALTOR uses a larger more prominent sign if possible, clean and new would be best. On these busy streets it is important to give the people who might be interested something they can easily use to get more information. Usually a web address such as www.jboyerhomes.com they can go to where lots of information about the home can be found is best.
Pricing is especially important with homes that are on busy streets. The home has to present a good value to the buyer who most times would rather be buying a home that is on a less busy street. Usually the difference in pricing is someplace between 5% and 15% depending on how busy the street is, and some other factors.
Home buyers have gotten very savvy within the past 5 years. They'll shop on-line for six months or more before contacting a NJ REALTOR. They will see lots of different homes in many different towns and can take virtual tours, but they have no idea many times which homes are on busy streets and which homes are not until they actually get out there and start looking in person. At this point it is the NJ REALTORS job to emphasize the positives and the value the home presents.
Home sellers busy street or not need to take a value pricing approach in markets like these. If your home is on a busy street this is even more important. Remember, when you purchased your home on a busy street you got it for a discount over similar homes which are on less busy streets. Now at the time of selling you must do the same. You’re not loosing anything by doing this, you never had the value to begin with. If a home is well-maintained and priced appropriately, your home likely will sell in a reasonable amount of time.
Trying to save money in this process is admirable but often fool hardy. Many times home owners will hire a discount real estate agent (Thinking all they need is the MLS) or try to sell their home For Sale By Owner (FSBO). I am not going to go off on a tangent here, but the phrase you get what you pay for come into play here. Most of the time services of a good professional NJ REALTOR will more than pay for any additional commission you pay him or her. You’re better off to save yourself the headaches later on, by interviewing 2 or 3 good NJ REALTORS before you hire one. Please feel free to contact me James Boyer for any additonal information or to interview me.
