Pricing Your Home

It is very important that you realise it is not your consultant, yourself, or the valuer that determines the value of your home, but the market.

The Market is the people out there looking to buy who will establish a fair market price for your home today.

What will they take into account as they do that?

Recent Area Sales of Similar Properties

The open home style of viewing today allows easy access to properties. Buyers get very good at establishing a market price as they are able to see and compare both recent sales and the ones presently for sale. They will choose by comparing.

• Condition of the property. Does it need anything spent on it straight away? General presentation to the market.
• Terms of the sale. Is it available for early possession?
• Locaton This is the most important factor for many buyers. Is the location suitable for their own needs and requirements, and will it be in demand as an area for resale?

The initial marketing period is crucial for several reasons.

• The very best buyers will be brought to your home in the first few days through an open home or by appointment.
• It is crucial that your price is in touch with the market indication of its value. We must have a price that will attract interest and generate offers. Overpricing can reduce advertising response and help sell your competitors property.
• Houses sell quickly and for the most money when they are priced correctly in the beginning.

Who Prices Your Home?

(You may start with four prices.)

1. Rateable Value
   Previously known as Government Valuation, your property is assessed by Valuation New Zealand on a three yearly basis and is primarily used by local councils for assessing rates.
2. Your Expectation
   You may take into account what you paid for it, what you spent on it. Also, of course what you would like for it.
3. Your Crest Realty Consultant's Opinion
   Recent sales in your area will be looked at (sometimes one has to go out of the area for comparable homes) and try to assess the things the market will take into account as they view your home to buy...
   • Size
   • Sun
   • Layout
   • Access
   • Location
   • Condition
   • Potential
   • Resale Value
4. A Registered Valuer
   You may decide to get a valuation done. This gives you another opinion.
   However, the market - the people out there looking to buy will be the ones who determine the property's value.

The Most Important Thing You will Do To Get Your home Sold Is To Price It Correctly Before It Goes On The Market

The Right Asking Price Attracts The Right Buyer

Experience shows that you attract the best quality, and greatest number of these people in the first stages of marketing. This is the most important reason to have your home priced correctly when it goes onto the market.

If your price is too high they will simply reject it out of hand - these people are ready to buy NOW - they may not wait for you to become realistic.

The worst thing about a price that is too high, is that your property may end up like dozens of listings that are still on the market after many months, gaining a reputation for being "hard to sell" or having "something wrong with them".

Overpricing

It is tempting to listen to a consultant who suggests a higher price. The comparative sales that your Crest Realty consultant will use will enable you to price your home correctly for the current market. Statistics show that buyers look at 15 houses on average before they purchase. They buy the one that represents the best value to them.

I want your home to be this one!