For Sale By Owner

The housing outlook for the Charlotte, North Carolina housing market is looking up according to the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association. Closings were up 24% in March. But selling a home by owner in today’s market means doing 2 things right 1) Pricing your home and 2) marketing your home.

Charlotte area home prices are down 13% from 2008. That means you have to be aggressive in pricing your home for sale. One reason to sell by owner is to save the real estate commission. In a buyer’s market that means sharing that savings with the buyers.
By pricing your home competitively you’ll be among the first to sell and that means a lot with the availability of houses on the market in the Charlotte area.

Marketing a home for sale by owner takes a little bit of savvy in today’s market as well. Newspaper classifieds used to be the best and only way to market to a wider audience. Today, however, the Internet has made home marketing a whole lot easier and less expensive. For instance, you can now market your home to millions of potential home buyers by listing on the major real estate portals, like Realtor.com, Trulia.com, Zillow.com, Bloomkey.com and many others for a low flat-fee that’s far less expensive that the cost of weekly ads in the newspaper.

For more information on listing your Charlotte area home by owner on the major real estate websites, visit Real Estate For Sale By Owner .