3 Tips to Help You Get Higher Offers on Your Home

Published On: March 27, 2022|Categories: Jasper IN Real Estate|Tags: Declutter, Get Higher Offers on Your Home, Price Your Home Right, Stay Flexible|

When you’re selling a home in Jasper or a nearby community, your goal is probably to make a significant profit. This guide gives you three tips to help you get higher offers on your home so you can achieve that goal.

3 Tips to Help You Get Higher Offers on Your Home

First things first: You need to work with an experienced real estate agent to get the best possible price for your home. With that said, here are three tips to help you get higher offers on your home:

Price your home right the first time
Clean, declutter and stage
Stay flexible

Scroll down for a closer look at each.

$569,000

1385 Rolling Ridge Road Jasper, Indiana

4 Beds 3 Baths 2,474 SqFt 1.3 Acres

Listing courtesy of SteveLukemeyer from F.C. TUCKER EMGE.

$529,700

3289 St. Charles Street Jasper, Indiana

4 Beds 4 Baths 3,906 SqFt 0.595 Acres

Listing courtesy of BrendaWelsh from SELL4FREE-WELSH REALTY CORPORATION.

$510,800

1089 N 400 W Road Jasper, Indiana

3 Beds 2 Baths 2,940 SqFt 14.82 Acres

Listing courtesy of BryceLain from SELL4FREE-WELSH REALTY CORPORATION.

$419,900

1479 Martha Drive Jasper, Indiana

3 Beds 4 Baths 3,087 SqFt 0.46 Acres

Listing courtesy of GarySchnell from SELL4FREE-WELSH REALTY CORPORATION.

$384,700

1778 S Raymond Street Jasper, Indiana

3 Beds 2 Baths 3,416 SqFt 0.97 Acres

Listing courtesy of BrendaWelsh from SELL4FREE-WELSH REALTY CORPORATION.

$364,700

1822 W 5th Street Jasper, Indiana

3 Beds 3 Baths 2,964 SqFt 0.96 Acres

Listing courtesy of BrendaWelsh from SELL4FREE-WELSH REALTY CORPORATION.

$300,000

307 Newton Street Jasper, Indiana

4 Beds 2 Baths 3,490 SqFt 0.37 Acres

Listing courtesy of AndrewWelsh from SELL4FREE-WELSH REALTY CORPORATION.

$299,900

5140 W Oak Ridge Drive Jasper, Indiana

3 Beds 3 Baths 1,835 SqFt 0.97 Acres

Listing courtesy of GarySchnell from SELL4FREE-WELSH REALTY CORPORATION.

$275,000

1051 Dorbett Street Jasper, Indiana

2 Beds 1 Baths 1,624 SqFt 0.91 Acres

Listing courtesy of ArletJackle from RE/MAX Local.

$271,500

4702 W 300 N Street Jasper, Indiana

3 Beds 3 Baths 2,363 SqFt 0.53 Acres

Listing courtesy of TamaStemle from RE/MAX Local.

Tip #1 to Help You Get Higher Offers on Your Home: Price Your Home Right the First Time

Pricing your home properly requires an expert’s guidance. Here’s the deal: if you price your home too high, the people who can afford it won’t even see it. That’s because people start their home searches online, where they can set price parameters. If your house would sell today for $400,000, but you list it for $425,000, the people who are searching for $400,000 homes won’t see it in their online searches.

However, the people who can afford $425,000 homes will see it – but that’s bad for you. that’s because these people will be comparing your home to homes that are actually worth $425,000. Your home is going to come up short.

When you price your home properly, qualified buyers will see it and, if they’re interested, schedule tours. If multiple buyers are interested in your home, the right price could even spark a bidding war period in a bidding war, two or more prospective buyers try to outdo each other by offering more and more money for the home. The bidding war ends when one party can no longer afford to bid higher; in that case, you decide which offer is more appealing to you.

Tip #2 to Help You Get Higher Offers on Your Home: Clean, Declutter and Stage

Your home needs to be spotless, and it also needs to be free from clutter. Additionally, your real estate agent will most likely talk to you about home staging – that’s the act of making your home as appealing as possible to prospective buyers. All of this needs to be done before you even have listing photos taken; that way, buyers who see your home online are impressed by the way it looks and they’re motivated to schedule tours.

For many people, it makes sense to hire a professional cleaning team for a one time deep clean before listing a home on the market. That way, all you need to do is maintain what the professionals have done until someone makes an offer that you accept. Additionally, it may make sense in your case to hire a professional stager. However, there are many things you can do to stage your own home without paying someone to do it for you; you should talk to your real estate agent to get expert staging tips.

Tip #3 to Help You Get Higher Offers on Your Home: Stay Flexible

Remaining flexible while your home is on the market can lead to higher offers. That means you may need to make concessions for buyers, or that you may need to adjust closing dates, leave the house on short notice for showings, and be willing to negotiate. Your real estate agent will be there to negotiate on your behalf, and they’ll be able to guide you in other ways that you may need to remain flexible while your home is on the market.

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