Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Selling A House When There Are Few Buyers

By Ashley Lawrence

When times are difficult, how can you sell a home fast, especially when there are few buyers?

Most people are not able to buy a home without a mortgage secured from a bank or other type of lending institution. At present this has become difficult without having an impeccable credit history and/or a large deposit.

As foreclosure figures rise, many people, understandably are worried that they will lose everything. They may be able to stop the eviction if they can find a buyer for their property who can give them a quick sale.

It is true that there are buyers, mostly property investors who will buy repossessions once they come up at auction or from a list of repossessed property, however some investors are willing to offer cash for a quick sale on property before a repossession occurs. This way the seller can avoid all the problems of an eviction. They bank gets the mortgage money back as they will usually have first charge and the balance will go to the seller. All this happens very quickly as they investor will have their finance in place prior to doing the deal

Buying foreclosure homes is not for everyone mind, and not everyone is in a pre foreclosure place either. There are many reasons why you may want someone to buy your home for cash, but the primary reason is for speed. Whatever the need, if you want to sell a home fast, then a great tip for selling your house to a cash buyer, is to make sure your home is in 100% tip top shape. If a cash buyer can go through foreclosed home lists and pick up a bargain property for less than yours, they may overlook it in favour of yours if you have kept your home in good condition.

If it's in bad condition but you're trying to sell it fast for cash money they won't bother if they can get a cheaper property further down the road in the same condition. You have to make it a better proposition for them in order for the investor or cash buyer to consider your home over another.

Just because another property is cheaper, doesn't mean your propery won't sell/What you need to do is make it appeal to the buyer more than the cheaper properties they may have alrady seen. In this way you hope to hurdle the barrier of price amd achieve the quick sale you desire.

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