Smart Home Buying Advice by a local Daytona Beach Realtor

Описание: With skyrocketing home prices and interest rates and a lower supply of available inventory, it may feel as though you'll never be able to buy a home. Redfin reports that home prices are up 3% year over year, mortgage payments are up 20% and there's a drop n available inventory. So, how do you navigate these factors and still walk away with a home you can afford?

In this video I'm going to share a few things you should be on the lookout for when you're shopping for homes online that might help you get a better deal!

1. Photo Quality: When you're looking online and you see a home with really awful photos, what do you? You probably keep on scrolling. Just like everyone else. Bad photos don't set a good tone for a listing and it can make buyers scroll on by because they don't like what they see. But wait a minute. This might work to your advantage. Just because the photos are terrible, doesn't mean the house is. I shared in the video, some listing photos of my own home when I purchased it. They're not good. They're dark, crooked, probably shot with a smartphone and don't really showcase the home how it appears in person. The home probably didn't get a lot of showings. Then I compared them to professional photos for one of my listings. They're gorgeous and it helped to drive a ton of traffic to my listing through showings and open houses. If you're like everyone else, you probably want to see the house with the show stopping photos, no? Use that to your advantage and don't discount a home just because the photos are bad. You may find the house outshines the photos, just like I did.

2. Days on Market: This factor is important for a lot of reason and can be caused by even more reasons. The property is valued too high, the seller is combative or there's a limited amount of time the home is available for showings. Any of these reasons and more can attribute to a home being on the market for a long period of time. You should also be looking at the history of the home. You may find listing that were on the market, removed from the market and then immediately put back on. This changes the algorithm to show a home is a brand new listing, when we can see from the history that it's not. These reasons may allow you to come to the table with a lower offer that the seller may actually accept! Make sure to reach out to me if you have trouble finding this information and I'll be happy to help you find it.

3. Activity: This ones a good one as well. Take a look to see how many views a property has and make sure to check and see if the brokerage has hosted any open houses at the property. If there's not a lot of views and there have been no open houses hosted, this could mean that they brokerage may be looking to get a quick deal on the home with the least amount of effort. The brokerage may even push a seller to accept a lower offer so they can get that home under contract and move on to the next one. While this approach would not benefit the seller, it could certainly benefit you!

For Potential Sellers: If you are thinking of listing or have already listed your home, make sure your brokerage is NOT doing these things. If they are, it may be time to consider hiring a different brokerage.

I hope that this video will be helpful to you as you search for your next home. Let me know in the comments if you've used these tips, how they worked for you, or if you have others you've used that have worked! If you have questions, make sure to visit us at www.homesofdaytonabeach.com to connect. We're here to help with all your buying and selling needs.

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