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Selling Home in Austin

Selling a Home in Austin, TX offers expert tips, detailed checklists, and valuable market insights to help homeowners navigate the selling process. Whether you're preparing for a busy spring or a slower autumn market, our guidance ensures your home stands out among competitors. We address common seller questions and provide strategies to maximize your home's value, making the selling experience smoother and more profitable. Join us to learn how to effectively stage, price, and promote your property for a successful sale.

Game Plan to Prepare Your Home for Showings

February 3, 2023 By Rebecca Jacks

When you’re selling your Austin home, you should have a set game plan for last minute showing requests. With a game plan, everyone in your household knows exactly what needs to be done to get your home ready to show quickly. To help you prepare your home for showings, here is a list of the […]

Filed Under: Sellers Tagged With: Preparing for Showings, Seller Tips, Staging

7 Tips for Preparing Your Home to Sell this Spring

February 2, 2023 By Raymond Stoklosa

Are you thinking of selling your home this Spring? Here are a few ideas you can start implementing now before your home goes on the market to preserve as much of your home’s equity as you can control. Follow these 7 tips for preparing your home to sell this Spring and you will get more […]

Filed Under: Sellers Tagged With: DIY Home Improvements, Frequent Seller Questions, Low Cost Home Improvements, Preparing to Sell, Saving Money, Seller Tips

Should I Respond to a Low Ball Offer?

December 21, 2022 By Rebecca Jacks

In this changing Austin real estate market, we often hear about multiple offers, homes selling for more than asking price and cash buyers. What we don’t hear about too much, but happens more than you think now that the market is in flux, are “low ball” offers. Even in a booming Austin real estate market, […]

Filed Under: Sellers Tagged With: First Time Home Sellers, Frequent Seller Questions, Negotiation, Responding to Offers, Selling for Top Dollar

7 Good Reasons to Sell Your Home During the Holidays

November 15, 2022 By Rebecca Jacks

There is a wrong-headed notion out there that homes don’t sell during the Holiday season. If you buy that idea, you may miss a great opportunity to sell your home for top dollar, quickly. If you’re thinking of selling your home soon, but are hesitant because of the Holidays, here are 7 good reasons to […]

Filed Under: Sellers Tagged With: Interpreting the Market, Preparing to Sell, Timing the Market

10 Questions to Ask Before Accepting an Offer

June 15, 2022 By Rebecca Jacks

If you’ve ever had your home on the market, you are familiar with the multitude of questions you’ll get from potential buyers. Often, inexperienced sellers are thankful to get an offer that they forget to ask any questions of the buyers. When we are representing Austin home sellers, we ask the buyer’s agent a multitude […]

Filed Under: Sellers Tagged With: Questions to Ask, Responding to Offers, Seller Tips, Selling in a Seller's Market, Top 10 Lists

How to Prepare Your Home for a Professional Photographer

May 27, 2022 By Rebecca Jacks

Those that have read our blog know professional real estate photography can mean the difference of $1,000 or more in the final purchase price. The better you present your home online, the more buyers will want to see your home in person and the better chances you’ll have of getting a good offer. Though a […]

Filed Under: Sellers Tagged With: Listing Photos, Preparing for Showings, Preparing to Sell, Seller Tips

18 Things Every First Time Home Seller Needs to Know

January 31, 2022 By Rebecca Jacks

Just like buying a home, selling a home is a process. To be successful and net the most money, you don’t just wake up one day, decide to sell your house and put a sign in the yard. Selling takes proper preparation, a strategic game plan and dynamic marketing. If you’re considering selling your home […]

Filed Under: Sellers Tagged With: Disclosures, First Time Home Sellers, Preparing to Sell, Seller Tips, Selling for Top Dollar

Great Photos Sell Homes

December 14, 2021 By Rebecca Jacks

Stellar photography can sell an Austin home faster and for more money. Today’s home buyer uses the internet as their primary search tool and pictures are what buyers want to see. The more pictures, the better…interior, exterior, wide angle with as much detail and as many vantage points as possible. Taking extra photos of kitchens, […]

Filed Under: Sellers Tagged With: Listing Photos, Preparing to Sell, Seller Tips

7 Inexpensive Upgrades to Maximize ROI for Sellers

October 26, 2021 By Rebecca Jacks

When you’ve decided it’s time to sell, you want your home to be as appealing to potential buyers as possible. If you’re like most, you’re willing to spend a little money on improvements, but you don’t want to waste money on upgrades that won’t see a return on investment. We’ve worked with hundreds of buyers […]

Filed Under: Sellers Tagged With: DIY Home Improvements, Low Cost Home Improvements, Seller Tips, Updating to Sell

Why Your Home Won’t Sell in 2019: Shopping Experience

January 17, 2019 By Rebecca Jacks

In our monthly rental market reports, we continue to see a striking trend in Austin: sellers taking their home off the market at increasing rates each month. While there are many reasons your home doesn’t sell, we find there are really three umbrella reasons why: the home’s physical defects, a buyer’s shopping experience and letting […]

Filed Under: Sellers Tagged With: Seller Tips, Selling for Top Dollar, Why Your Home Won't Sell 2019

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