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How to Price Your Home for a Fast Sale in a Slow Market
In a slow market, your list price does most of the work in the first two to three weeks, while your listing is new and buyer traffic is at its peak. Price above what recent closed sales support and you spend that window educating buyers about homes you are competing with rather than collecting offers.
Maren Vickery · 10 min read
Agent vs. FSBO vs. iBuyer: How to Choose the Right Way to Sell Your Home
There are three common ways to sell: list with a full-service agent, sell it yourself (FSBO), or take a cash offer from an iBuyer or investor. They differ on what you pay, how fast you can close, and — the part that actually matters — how much money lands in your account at closing.
Tobias Lindqvist · 11 min read
Pricing Strategy for Unique or Hard-to-Comp Homes
A hard-to-comp home is any property where the usual method — find three or four recent sales of similar homes nearby and adjust — runs out of material. Log cabins, acreage, waterfront, converted commercial space, historic houses, custom architecture, off-grid systems, oversized or undersized units in a condo building, and homes with legal quirks like an accessory dwelling or a shared well all land here.
Priya Natarajan-Wells · 13 min read
Selling Your Home While Buying Another: A Step-by-Step Timing Guide
Selling and buying at the same time is a scheduling problem before it is a pricing problem. You control four things — when you list, what you ask, what closing date you agree to, and whether you keep possession after closing — and each one moves the other three.
Odalys Reyes Fontaine · 14 min read
Cash Buyers vs. iBuyers vs. Listing on the Open Market: Comparing Your Options
Selling fast and selling for the most money are usually two different decisions. A full-service agent listing, a for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) sale, an iBuyer offer and a local cash investor each trade speed, certainty and convenience against net proceeds — and the gap between them on the same house can run tens of thousands of dollars.
Maren Vickery · 10 min read
How to Sell a House: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Selling a house is four jobs in sequence: get the property ready, price it against current local evidence, keep a contract alive through inspection and appraisal, and settle the money at closing. Most of the cost and most of the delay sit in the first and third of those.
Maren Vickery · 14 min read
Home Valuation Guide: Comparing a Zestimate, an Appraisal, and a CMA
A Zestimate, a CMA and an appraisal are not three attempts at the same number. One is a computer model run on public and listing data, one is a licensed agent's written opinion built from recent sales, and one is a licensed appraiser's report that a lender will underwrite against. They can all be defensible and still disagree by a wide margin on the same house.
Odalys Reyes Fontaine · 12 min read
Comparing Ways to Sell a House Fast Without Sacrificing Price
Speed and price pull against each other, but not by a fixed amount. The gap between an agent-listed sale, a for-sale-by-owner sale and a cash or iBuyer offer shows up in three places: the listing-side fee, the days between accepted offer and closing, and the discount built into the offer price itself. Only the last one is invisible on a settlement statement, and it is usually the largest.
Odalys Reyes Fontaine · 9 min read
Should You Sell With an Agent or On Your Own? Costs and Trade-Offs Compared
Three routes get a house sold: list with a full-service agent, sell it yourself (FSBO), or sell direct to an iBuyer or cash buyer. They differ on what you pay, how fast you close, and — the part that matters — what you net after every deduction. Most sellers still use an agent or broker, and the FSBO share fell to a historic low in the National Association of Realtors' 2024 survey (National Association of Realtors, 2024-11), but "most people do it" isn't a reason, and neither is a low advertised fee.
Desmond Achebe-Park · 10 min read
What's My Home Worth: How to Price It to Sell Without Leaving Money on the Table
Your home's value is a range, not a number, and the three common ways of estimating it — a comparative market analysis, an online estimator, and a licensed appraisal — will hand you three different answers for the same house on the same day. The list price you pick inside that range decides how many buyers see the listing, how fast you get offers, and how much negotiating room you keep.
Desmond Achebe-Park · 11 min read
How to Sell an Inherited House: Step-by-Step Guide
Selling a house you inherited is two jobs stacked on top of each other: settling an estate and running a normal home sale. The estate part — proving you have legal authority to sell, establishing the tax basis, and getting co-heirs to agree — usually controls the calendar. The sale part only starts moving once title can actually transfer.
Tobias Lindqvist · 16 min read