How Can We Generate Multiple Offers on Your Charleston Home?

There are many great Charleston area homes for sale. Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home,click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call me at (843) 972-3833 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions. 

In an effort to get multiple offers on one of my listings, I follow a very strict process to generate a feeling of urgency around the home. One way we do that is by doing a lot of pre-listing marketing.

We start by creating a specific website for your home and work to drive traffic to it. We also use social media to target people who are most likely to buy your home. In a four-day period, we can generate between 6,000 and 8,000 impressions, and get 500-600 people to actually click on the advertisement to view your property. This strategy is fantastic because we can measure how many people show interest in your home.

We also have a Buyer in Waiting Program - people who sign up for this give us permission to send them emails with unlisted and newly listed homes. Once you list with us, we'll send out an email list to this pool of motivated buyers. Every month, we have over 300 new buyers who use our site to find a home, so we are able to place your home directly in front of an audience of serious buyers.

Once we release your home to the market, we'll typically not allow showings for the first four days. This way, we are able to structure appointments so that each potential buyer sees that other people are interested in the home. Showing many buyers your home at once creates a sense of urgency and will usually end in a bidding war for your home! 

If you have any questions about how you can make the most of your home sale, or if you need real estate assistance of any kind, give me a call or shoot me a quick email. I would love to hear from you!

Charleston South Carolina Real Estate

 There are many great Charleston area homes for sale. Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home, click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call me at (843) 972-3833 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions.

Don't Miss out on the Winter Selling Season

A lot of people think that the holiday season is not an opportune time to list their home and wait until spring. Actually, people who wait until the spring to list their home are missing out on a ton of great benefits that selling in the fall and winter has to offer. Here are 4 reasons why it is smart to list your home during the holidays:

1. Low Inventory
In the winter, your home has less competition and a better chance at standing out to buyers

2. Serious Buyers
There is a much more dedicated pool of buyers out there during the holidays. These people want to find a home, and may have some days off built up to go on showings and look at all the homes out there.

3. Holiday Decorations
Subtle holiday decorations have been known to make homes show better. It not only improves its appearance for showings, but your online photos look better as well. Just don't go overboard with the decorations.

4. Low Interest Rates
Interest rates are still historically low, in the 3-4% range, and locking one in now could save you thousands of dollars down the road. Rates are expected to rise by at least 1% in the next year. 

If you have any questions, be sure to give us a call or send us an email. We would be happy to answer them for you.

Beware of the Latest Social Media Trends!

There are many great Charleston area homes for sale. Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home, click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call me at (843) 795-7950 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions.

Beware of the Latest Social Media Trends!

We need to talk – when I’m not selling real estate or saving the world, I’ll take some time to scroll through my Facebook news feed or thumb through a few tweets. Through my research, I’ve noticed a trend that needs to be addressed: the “Humblebrag.”

Staying on top of the trends is something that obviously comes natural to me. However for those who are not familiar with the “Humblebrag,” our friends at Urban Dictionary were kind enough to provide us with a definition:

“Subtly letting others now about how fantastic your life is while undercutting it with a bit of self-effacing humor or "woe is me" gloss.

Uggggh just ate about fifteen piece of chocolate gotta learn to control myself when flying first class or they'll cancel my modelling contract LOL :p #humblebrag”

If you think that was bad, my next finding takes this trend to another level:

“Going thru some of my other shots from my photo shoot Ladies what do you think of this one? #blessed…”

Look man, good looking people like ourselves don’t need to flaunt it around on social media while asking for the public’s opinion! If you do something awesome, like being voted The Best Realtor in Charleston for 2014 by the Charleston City Paper, there is no need to wear it around your chest like a banner and pretend that it is no big deal.

After all, everyone should know that you’re the best… #blessed.