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What is virtual staging?
I'm always going to recommend first that you do real staging when trying to sell your property.
You want buyers to fall in love with your home the second they walk in.
Staging will allow the buyer’s emotions drive their purchasing decision.
If you refuse to have your home staged, virtual staging is the next best thing.
I have even had my graphic designer work with the current furniture that is in the home.
The designer can use their digital furniture in conjunction with your real furniture.
That way you don't have to move a single piece of furniture at your home and your marketing pictures will still end up looking great.
Virtual staging is better than showing an empty room
If you are getting ready to sell your property, you should consider staging your home.
That is when a home stager comes in and furnishes your house with modern, new, clean furniture. It makes your home look like a model home.
The problem with staging is that it costs money. The minimum cost will be around $3k.
If you refuse to do that, you should consider virtual staging.
This is where you take a picture of an empty room in your house, then a graphic designer edits the picture and ads computer-generated furniture.
In most cases, your marketing pictures will end up looking great.
You will definitely get a lot of attention to your online listing and will bring people in to see your home.
The problem arises when the buyer shows up to tour the home.
They came to see a beautiful model looking home and they end up taking a tour of a bunch of empty rooms.
This is not the ideal situation to put a buyer in.
But, virtually staged photos are better than showing a vacant room or a room filled with furniture from the 1980's.
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When to adjust your budget
Agents are strategically putting the asking price on their listings lower than fair market value.
By doing this the listing gets a lot of attention and gets multiple offers.
The property then sells for above-asking price, usually at fair market value.
Now that you know this info, be prepared to put in an offer on a home above your budget.
You could also look at properties below your budget and anticipate that the price will go up to your original budget.
Home sales are the slowest in the 4th quarter
The 4th quarter of the year (October, November, December) is usually when home sales are the slowest.
The reason is that everyone is busy with the holidays that come up during those months.
A buyer may put their home search on hold because they are having their family stay at their home for #Thanksgiving.
Or maybe it's more important to a home buyer to go to all the holiday parties instead of focusing on finding a home.
No matter what the reason is, the 4th quarter is typically the slowest time of the year in real estate.
Having said that, the real motivated buyers and sellers are still out there trying to make a deal happen.
Some of the best deals I have seen have gone down during the holiday season.
Episode 30 of The #AskDanielLosAngeles Show
On this episode, I answer the following four real estate questions:
1) At what point during the year are home sales usually the slowest?
2) Now that we found a buyer for my home and we are in escrow, is it safe for us to start moving out?
3) A lot of the homes I am touring are selling for more than the list price. How am I supposed to buy a property if everything I am interested in keeps selling over the asking price?
4) I do not want to spend a dime on staging my home. What other options are out there to make my home look more attractive to buyers?
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The most famous home to sell this week in Los Angeles
The Ennis House just sold for $18,000,000 in the Los Feliz hills.
The home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Charles and Mabel Ennis and was built in 1924.
The design of the house was based on the ancient Maya Temples and its notable detail is the relief ornamentation on its 27,000 perforated and patterned decomposed granite blocks.
Filmmakers flocked to its location. The home shot to fame when the exterior façade was used for the House on Haunted Hill in 1958, but it is most known for being in the movie Blade Runner and the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (one of my favorite shows growing up!).
The house was included as one of the top ten houses of all time in Los Angeles Times, and is a designated California Historical Landmark, and a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
Regular Recording vs. Special Recording
I highly recommend doing a standard recording.
In that case, you don't have to do anything!
You are simply waiting for a call from your agent to tell you that you now officially own the property.
A special recording should only really be used in an absolute must circumstance.
Unless it's a must, it won't kill you to wait the extra day to close escrow.
