Improve Your House For A Quicker Sale In The Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky Real Estate Market

With thousands of Louisville homes for sale, and hundreds more in Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky, home buyers have their choice of the most move-in-ready houses and condos. In other words, it means home buyers can be choosy in selecting only the most updated houses and condos, where all the remodeling has been done for them, and they can simply bring in their furniture. The positive news for home sellers is that many times updating can be done with little money, and will most times result in a much higher amount in the sales price than if the seller just put the house on the market without updating it. When a buyer sees a property as-is with old brass fixtures and smudged paint, they usually say "Let's keep looking at other houses that don't need as much work" and will offer a very low price. Most often they will look at the house and then not write an offer at all. They'll choose a different house that looks a little nicer. The house will sit on the market longer because home buyers will pass it over for homes that have already been re-done. The more days a house is on the market, the less likely it is to sell for asking price. For anybody out there with Floyds Knobs homes for sale, remember this: houses sell quicker and for higher prices if they are move-in-ready and staged correctly from day one.

For a home to go for for top dollar in this over supplied housing market, the home seller should spend the time to update the house with this year's hottest trends of neutral tones, and the latest style of bathroom faucets and handles, and the most updated light fixtures in all rooms, especially the dining room, kitchen and bathrooms, new carpet in a light color. Even if the home is only ten years old, like some of the newer Louisville Ky homes and Florence Ky real estate areas, trends change so frequently that you really should take a ride to the nearest Home Depot and ask what is the most chosen style that people are putting in homes today.

Here are some more tips for older homes, like the grand older homes of New Albany Indiana and Fort Mitchell Kentucky. On the outside a home seller should repaint the trim on the front of the property and plant colorful flowers to catch the attention of a home buyer driving by. It is also a good idea to have the HVAC cleaned and serviced.

No matter if you have an older house in Fort Thomas Ky or one of the newer New Albany Indiana homes, experts suggest calling a staging expert to decide how the furniture should be arranged, and which items to box up and which items to leave out. Houses appear bigger with less pictures on the walls, and houses look bigger when there is less furniture on the floor. Houses look better with the blinds open to let in more light. If possible, open the blinds to let in sunlight before each showing and have light jazz music playing. If you are able, try to have the house smelling like baked goods such as oatmeal cookies.

Taking the time to do this will pay off. In Southern Indiana only around 8.5% of the over 2000 houses for sale will sell per month. The rest will still be for sale the next month. To make sure your house is one of the ones chosen, call a real estate advisor about updates and staging. The same advice goes for Northern Kentucky where only around 10% of the over 3000 homes for sale will sell each month on average. The average price of a house for sale in the Kenton County- Boone County-Campbell County area of Northern Kentucky was approximately $200,000 at the end of 2011. The price varies by individual neighborhoods and areas such as the Triple Crown neighborhood or the Union area. In closing, it is important to stand out in the crowd of homes for sale in the Florence Ky real estate market, and houses for sale New Albany IN. The best way to sell faster is to do some inexpensive updates that your real estate agent recommends and talk to a staging expert.