How to Sell Your House in Spring and Summer

If you are trying to put up your home for sale, now is the best time to do it. It’s a no-brainer that spring and summer are the best seasons to sell your house. That’s the reason why you see a high number of homes getting sold before summer ends. To ensure that your house is one in those high numbers, you need to follow these tips.

Use Multiple Listing Services

Gone are those days when you could only place the "Home for Sale" signboard outside your house and get a lot of queries from potential homebuyers. You need to do a lot more today to spread the word across. In such a competitive period, using a multiple listing service (MLS) can be a smart move. Talk to your real estate agent and get your home listed on some popular MLS websites even before spring arrives so that you let potential buyers know where they should be when the right time comes. If you are trying to sell your house on your own, you can still list your home for sale on MLSs.

Organise Home Showings

Calgary has longer days during the spring and summer months. Longer days means more sunlight and more time for your potential homebuyers to look at different areas of your house. Use this opportunity wisely to spread the word of your home for sale across and organise open houses. Schedule multiple home showing sessions with different buyers, and dedicate enough time to each one of them. Attend every potential homebuyer personally so that you can take them around the house nicely and answer their questions. A better tour of the house and more clarity about your property will increase the chances of selling your house faster.

Spruce Up Space

Nobody wants to look at dark and gloomy-looking homes when they are out for buying a house. This is the reason why most homebuyers hibernate during winters and prefer spring and summers to visit homes so that they can see fresh houses. Therefore, provide potential homebuyers with fresh and clean looks. Start with your home exteriors. Rake the lawn, trim bushes and trees, mow the grassy lawn, clean driveways and walkways, and de-clutter the area. Also, clean the windows and doors, repair elements in the entryway, paint the home if required, and work on everything to create a lovely first look of the house.

Be Patient

As a lot of buyers look for an ideal house during these months, there’s a lot of competition in the real estate market. This also means that the bidding competition will also be high during these seasons. If your house is located close to most facilities and amenities and is also in its best condition, people will be willing to bid higher than others for your house to purchase the house. The bottom line is that you will get higher and better sales price compared to other months of the year. So be ready to get a lot of purchase bids and don’t settle for the first buyer who approaches you. Talk to several homebuyers and select the one who pays a good sum and also seems to be a good match.

One of the benefits of working with a real estate agent is that they can share more of such tips to sell your house in spring and summer or during any time of the year. They have just-the-right tricks that can help you sell your house at best rates even in the most competitive market.