Marketing Tips for Philadelphia Home Sellers

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Our Home Selling Shark Series is designed to help sellers get top dollar for their homes. We have some hot tips for marketing your home and determining if your Realtor is savvy enough to create demand before your home even hits the market.

First off, SEO optimization is crucial. You want your home to pop up first when someone Googles “homes” in your area because there are so many other Realtors marketing other properties. There is a thing called “Pay Per Click,” where you pay for someone to click on your house.

On our team, we pay the money for that because it just makes sense to drive more traffic to your home. If you work with someone who sells five homes a year, you should know that three of those sales are buyers and only two are properties that the agent lists. That means they are probably not going to spend a lot of money on advertising. I have 100 homes on the market, so I can make sure that your home stands out.

You also want to get your home on every site that populates current listings on the MLS. Syndicating your listing allows sites like Yahoo, Realtor.com, and more to pick up your listing. Homes that use this marketing tool sell in an average of 30 days versus the MLS average of 90 days.

We have seen a little surge in the marketplace over the last few months but it is slowing down a bit now, so pricing is key. Keep in mind that you want to sell your home within 3% of the market price. Think of pricing as a grocery line: there are 10 other people in line, but you want to be up front. There may be 10 other homes in the area on the market and you want to jump in front of them pricing-wise.

You do have to put some time in and determine whether or not those competing properties are overpriced. You don’t want to underprice your home; you just want to make sure that your home price is right for the market you are in.

If you’re planning on selling your home, be prepared. Come to one of our monthly Home Selling Sharks seminars. We can help you sell for 18% more than other home sellers. Go to www.homesellingsharks.com for more information and to sign up for the next seminar. I look forward to seeing you there!