Priced To Sell

November 20, 2008

In today’s volatile market, buyers expect to get a great deal when then purchase a home. It’s almost as if they want to be rewarded for being brave and credit worthy. So how do you price your home so that it’s competitive enough to get buyers looking at it, but high enough to allow the negotiating room buyers need so they can assure themselves they purchased the home at a discount?

A while back I showed a home that had been reduced for a quick sale. It was a great deal. The buyer I was working with loved the house and made an offer (90% of list price) on the home. The offer was rejected. When I asked if the buyer would have been happy with the purchase price if the home had originally been listed higher and he’d offered the current list price. The buyer admitted that buying the home at a discount was more important than finding the right house at the right price. He absolutely could not pay full list price for the home, even though the list price was below comparable homes.

It’s difficult for sellers to understand that some of the appreciation they’ve experienced over the last few years has been wiped out. But if a seller has owned for more than about 8 years, he still should have built up enough equity to be able to price well, leave a little room for negotiation and walk away from the table with some profit. Compare profits to what your stock portfolio or retirement is worth, and sellers in most parts of the country are still OK. Yes, there are areas in the country where sellers are upside down in their mortgages, but how many of these sellers have owned for more than 8 years?

So if you’re a seller with enough equity to negotiate, do so with grace and gratitude. Hopefully, you’ll get just a good a deal when you go to buy your next home!

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Latitude: 33.398577 -- Longitude: -91.048356

Other Area Cities: Greenville Leland

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Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 41,633 at the 2000 census.(likely higher now after Hurricane Katrina devastated areas farther south and east). It is the county seat of Washington CountyGR6. Greenville is also the largest city in Mississippi north of the I-20 corridor. Greenville was named after American Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene. Greenville was the birthplace of singer Mary Wilson of The Supremes, author Shelby Foote, pro-baseball player Frank White, and pioneering Chinese American journalist Sam Chu Lin. African-American bear hunter and sportsman Holt Collier is buried in Greenville. -- Source: Wikipedia.com

Mississippi 2000 Census Population Profile Map

	Greenville	Mississippi	United States
Population	41,633	2,844,658	281,421,906
Median age	31.5	33.8	35.3
Median age for Male	28.8	32.2	34
Median age for Female	33.9	35.3	36.5
Households	14,784	1,046,434	105,480,101
Household population	40,914	2,749,244	273,643,273
Average household size	2.77	2.63	2.59
Families	10,419	747,159	71,787,347
Average family size	3.34	3.14	3.14
Housing units	16,251	1,161,953	115,904,641
Occupied units	14,784	1,046,434	105,480,101
Vacant units	1,467	115,519	10,424,540

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