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Top 5 tips for selling our home

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Spring is typically considered to be the busiest season in the real estate market. But according to a recent report, homes listed for sale in the fall are more likely to sell within six months than those listed in the spring and in the summer. What’s more, compared to homes listed in other seasons, the houses that are listed in the winter spend six to eight fewer days on the market.

If you’re planning to list your home during the fall or the winter, you may need to adjust your strategy to keep buyers interested. Here are some ways to appeal to homebuyers if you’re waiting until things cool off to sell your house.

1. Prepare Your Home for the Cold Weather

When you’re selling a home in the fall or the winter, buyers are more likely to pay attention to your HVAC system and whether the windows in your house are insulated. Changing your air filters and weatherstripping your doors and windows is important if you don’t want buyers to be concerned about staying warm.

You may also want to consider having your chimney cleaned and inspected if you have a fireplace. If you want to go all out, you could think about making your windows and doors more energy efficient or replacing your HVAC system entirely if you’ve had it for a while.

2. Add Curb Appeal

Yellow grass and piles of leaves probably won’t add much in terms of curb appeal. While there’s not much you can do about those kinds of things, there are ways to give the outside of your house some personality.

If you’ve got a front porch, for example, you could spruce it up with some new rocking chairs or seasonal decorations. And if you want to highlight your home’s best features, you can include pictures of how it looks in the spring or the summer in your online listing.

3. Warm Things Up

5 Essential Tips for Selling Your Home in Fall or Winter

When it’s chilly outside, it’s important to make buyers feel warm in more ways than one. Aside from keeping your thermostat at a comfortable level, it’s a good idea to make your home seem inviting.

Adding decorative touches like candles or natural accents like pine cones can make buyers feel at home. Covering your living room and kitchen walls with a warm (but neutral) paint color can also heat things up.

4. Appeal to Buyers’ Senses

The fall and winter months are associated with certain smells and flavors (think: pine needles, cinnamon, peppermint and pumpkin pie). Beyond setting the mood with decorations, you could try appealing to buyers’ senses in multiple ways.

For example, if you’re hosting an open house you could keep hot chocolate and pumpkin muffins on hand for visiting buyers. If you don’t want to go that far, keeping a scented candle burning in the background or playing some holiday music can work wonders.

5. List Your Home at the Right Price

During the fall and winter months, it’s particularly important to avoid setting your listing price too high. If there are fewer homes on the market, you’ll have less competition. But if your asking price seems expensive or unaffordable, you could scare away potential buyers.

Before listing your home, it’s a good idea to find out what similar homes in your area are selling for. That way, you can pick an appropriate asking price.

Related Article: Top 5 Tips for Picking the Right Asking Price

Final Word

5 Essential Tips for Selling Your Home in Fall or Winter

Not interested in competing with hundreds of home sellers? You might need to consider putting your home on the market in the fall or the winter. Using the tips and tricks that we’ve mentioned can help your home to stand out. Hopefully you’ll be able to find a homebuyer and seal the deal before the spring arrives. Good luck!

2004 Montrose Lane (Lot sale)

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UNDER CONTRACT

Large Custom Home can be built on this lovely level lot in Landfall’s Highlands Neighborhood.

Agent Remarks: Handsome building site for large new home in the Highlands, Landfall’s exclusive neighborhood for custom architect designed residences. Overlooking the Par 3 hole on the Marsh course with views of the entire par 3 hole from tees to green. Preliminary Design available for a possible custom homes by Venture Homes.

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Featured Listing of the week

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1922 Hallmark Lane

Coastal Cottage with easy living in a private gated community setting. This lovely home features easy living with 3 bedrooms on the main level, and updated kitchen with Quartzite Counter, new appliances and glassed in porch. The upstairs includes a large recreation room and walk in storage. Impeccably maintained including the perennial garden in the back yard. A private alley access is provided so that street parking in this wooded neighborhood is at a minimum. Woodbridge at Landfall is an oasis in Landfall and offers walking access to Wrightsville Beach, shops and restaurants. New roof was installed in 2018 and hot water heater has been replaced. Heat pump replaced in 2012. Lawn maintenance provided by HOA, making this home truly easy living!

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1341 Regatta Drive

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Under Contract!!

This well maintained home is located in the Lakeside Villa section of Landfall. It boosts incredible views of the 8th green and 9th fairway on the Dye golf course. Pristine hardwood floors in the downstairs living area and kitchen. One level living with 3 bedrooms on the main floor and a bonus room and full bath upstairs with large storage closet. Yard is maintained by the Homeowner’s Association. With close proximity to Mayfaire, barely minutes from Wrightsville Beach and some of Wilmington’s best restaurants, location is the best. Let your imagination be your guide and make your dreams come true, contact Landfall Realty, your neighborhood realtors.

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2019 Ironman 70.3 Wilmington, NC

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On your marks, get set, go!!! Saturday, October 19th Wilmington will be hosting another amazing Ironman race. Traffic patterns around Landfall, Military Cut Off and Wrightsville Beach will be diverted from 5:00am until around 9:30am. Please stay alert and remember to share the road! All the best to those competing! 

 

1822 Senova Trace

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1822 Senova Trace
Sold Price $885,000

Landfall Realty has continued its mission of providing a first class brokerage business dedicated to serving only the Landfall community and the selling and marketing of its properties.

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425 Moss Tree

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Elegant Southern Colonial with coastal flair including cedar shingle exterior, features an open floor plan with large formal rooms and superlative kitchen appointments. This home also features a wonderful marble master bath and huge closet. Outdoor entertainment is at its finest with the pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen complex and fire pit. The setting for this wonderful home is the Nicklaus course and conservation beyond for ultimate privacy. Upstairs are 3 additional bedrooms, and a double bonus room.

Listed Price: $1,289,000

New Study show living by the coast is good for your health

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New study finds living near the seas boost mental health. If your looking for the final check on your list to move to Wilmington NC…just read this article and contact Landfall Realty to help you find that dream home you’ve been waiting for. Weather your looking to downsize, relocate or an investment property in the private gated Landfall Neighborhood were here to help you every step of the way. For more information contact us at 910-256-6111 or stop by the sales office 1720 Drysdale Drive just before the Drysdale gate.