Selling Your Home In the Fall

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Selling Your Home In the Fall

Late spring is commonly known as the best time of year to sell your home, but it’s not the only time to successfully sell your home. In fact, autumn is a close second with benefits all its own. While late spring and early summer are popular because kids are just leaving school, fall is the season of coming back from summer vacation, kids preparing to return to school. It’s a period of transition, but there are still a few months before the hectic holidays roll in.

In College Station, the somewhat cooling temperatures can also be a benefit, as no one likes to move in the worst of summer heat. So let’s talk about tips to help you sell your home in the fall.

Spruce Up the Yard

Staging your home is important when selling, no matter what time of year. And staging your home isn’t just reorganizing the living room. It’s an inside-and-out process. In fact, your yard is one of the most important elements of your home staging. If your yard is a mess, it sets the impression for your entire home. Fall is a tricky season for lawns as well. Summer vines are still clinging to the walls, and weeds are beginning to wilt as leaves fall from the trees. You’ll want to rake your yard thoroughly, pull up any lingering weeds and vines so that it looks neat and clean when prospective buyers see it. Then you can plant autumn flowers like crocuses and dahlias to give your front yard more of a thematic WOW factor.

Updates and Maintenance

Autumn is often a good time to do preventative HVAC maintenance, making sure nothing got clogged in your system over the summer. When was the last time you replaced your air or furnace filters? What does the house smell like when you turn the furnace on after resting for a while. No prospective buyer wants to walk into a home and immediately take in dusty air. Keep your HVAC system up to date and your air quality clear before opening house. Additionally, now might be a good time to clean or even replace your home windows, clean out your roof gutters, and see if your roof needs any repairs.

Lighten Up

With autumn comes shorter days, and cloudier days at that. With the darker lighting outside, it’s all the more important to keep the house well-lit inside. If you’re relying on lamps for the most part because that’s what suits you, now might be a good time to install another light fixture, or use brighter bulbs. It’s always hard to sell a home that looks dim and gloomy, but when the outside weather is also dim and gloomy, it can be that much harder. A well-lit house looks inviting and warm and your buyers will easily fall in love.

No matter what time of year you choose to sell your home, don’t forget to enlist the help of an experienced College Station realtor. They’ll have the expertise you need about market trends and what sets autumn — or any other season — apart from the rest when it comes to selling your home.