Home sales in Oakville and throughout all of Halton and Mississauga have slowed down compared to this same period last year. With the changes in the market, homes may not sell as quickly, which means that selling your home can be a bit more challenging. So, what can you do to make sure your home sells during a market slowdown? Most importantly, make sure you’re working with an experienced realtor that consistently demonstrates success and has the tools and abilities to make sure your home and listing are expertly prepared.

Sue Heddle Homes has more than a decade of experience selling homes in Oakville, Burlington, Milton and Mississauga. With an award-winning seller’s guide, free home staging, digital marketing tools and top negotiating skills, you can count on our team to ensure your listing gets the attention it deserves. Choosing the right realtor will make a huge difference when it comes to attracting buyers in a slower market. Give us a call at (416) 906-7998, we’d be happy to speak with you and provide more information on how we can help with all of your real estate needs.

Sue Heddle Homes Knows How To Stage, List and Market A Home 

1. Pricing Your Home For The Current Market.

 When selling in a slow market, it’s critical to price your home correctly. Selling in 24 hours and receiving multiple offers is not the current market reality, and you so you need to price accordingly. Sue Heddle Homes is familiar with the Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington and Milton markets and can provide you with an up-to-date market evaluation.

2. Exposure.

We’ll make sure your home is listed on the local real estate board MLS (Multiple Listing Service), Zillow, as well as other online listing sites to ensure you listing is getting maximum exposure.

3. Professional Photographs.

Your listing with Sue Heddle Homes will include professional photographs so that your home makes the best first impression for potential buyers.

4. Home Staging. 

Home staging is proven to help your home sell faster and for a better price. When you list with Sue Heddle Homes, you’ll receive home staging for FREE! We have a warehouse full of on trend furniture and accessories ready to make your home as inviting as possible for potential buyers. 

5. Keep You Informed.

Selling your home can be a very emotional process. Our expertise will help you understand the current market, making it easier to be patient. We’ll provide timely information and updates to help reduce worry and stress, like sharing recent nearby comparable sales and new listings entering the market.

Sell Your Home With A Professional Oakville Realtor

There are so many details that go into creating a professional and appealing listing. As the real estate market continues to change and evolve, it’s more important than ever to list your home with someone who understands the market and has experience effectively selling homes. If you’re ready to list your home, contact Sue Heddle and let us take care of everything you’ll need to create a desirable listing.

Home sellers who have pets at home can have a hard time imagining the negative attitudes that potential home buyers may have against a beloved furry family member. But if you want to get the best price for your home, you should consider these factors that may influence the sale of your home when you have a dog, a cat or other types of pets at home.

Unpredictable Reactions

Even if you consider your pet to be well behaved, it is a lot to ask of them to be calm and welcoming while people they don’t know arrive unexpectedly at your house.  You really can’t predict what your pet might do, and as such, their behaviour can turn home buyers away.

Fear or Nervousness

Pets can make some people very uncomfortable. As a result, it may cause them to shorten a showing or to not really look at all the features of the home with an open mind.

What To Do With Pets When Your House Is On The Market?

While this can be hard and frustrating for pet owners to hear, removing pets from the home, if possible, while the house is on the market is the best option. At the very least, pets should be out of the home during an open house. See if a friend or family member can give them a temporary home or look into local kennels or boarding options.

Regardless of whether you move your pet out of the home when you are trying to sell or not, other tips to make your home more welcoming to all buyers include:

• Removing cat litter boxes or dog pee pads. You will also need to clean and sanitize the area to remove lingering odours.
• Hire a professional carpet cleaner to remove pet stains from carpets.
• Put away toys as well as food and water bowls.
• Pack up crates, carriers, leashes and other items used for caring for your pets.
• Clean your yard and make sure you have picked up after your pet.

When you put your house up for sale, it’s no longer about you or your pets. Before you list your home, you need to create an environment that will give potential buyers the most favorable impression of your property. It should be easy for potential buyers to visualize themselves making your house their future home.

Getting Your House Ready To Sell

One of the many ways that Sue Heddle Homes makes it easy for clients to sell their home is by offering free home staging. Staging can help eliminate signs of pets in your home and will also help your home sell quickly, meaning that your pets can be back with the family as soon as possible. For more information on how we help our clients sell their homes, take a look at our Seller’s Guide. We invite you to contact us at any time to find out more about how we can help you sell your Oakville, Mississauga or Burlington home.

It’s been common past practice to add a synthetic air freshener to your Oakville home when you’re trying to make it smell pleasant for a showing. However, if you’re doing so in the hopes of improving the chances of selling your home, you might want to think twice. 

Smell is one of our most important senses and is closely linked with memory. Good smells can evoke happy memories and experiences while bad smells can do the opposite. Smell is also highly emotive, meaning different fragrances can convey a vast array of emotions and feelings. So, it should be no surprise that smell can come into play when you’re trying to sell your home.

Increasingly, more and more people find it difficult to tolerate synthetic perfumes, which can come across as overpowering and uninviting. If you use one in your home, there’s a good chance that a potential buyer may be sensitive to these types of scents, making it hard for them to make it past the front entrance, let alone be able to really get a sense of whether or not your home is right for them.

Three Simple Ways To Add Pleasant Scents To Your Home 

Give your prospective buyers extra incentive to purchase your house by making it smell like a home they can see themselves in. Your goal is to make every guest feel like they belong. By using scents that evoke only the best memories and feelings, you may end up adding the factor you need to make the sale.  Keep reading for some suggestions from Sue Heddle Homes on how to use scent to help sell your home without relying on synthetic products.

Now, before you make the effort to include some pleasant scents as part of your selling strategy, it’s best to make sure you don’t have any negative scents working against you! Empty every garbage, make sure the laundry hampers are emptied too, make sure appliances are clean inside and out (especially front-loading washers which can develop a mildew smell), and use natural/unscented cleaning products. 

1 - Essential Oils.

In addition to offering a lovely smell, essential oils have many health benefits as well. For example, peppermint oil has been known to reduce stress, tension and headaches. While lavender oil is thought to be a great way to relieve anxiety. All of these are exactly the emotions you want potential buyers to feel when they are in your home. Avoid using strong scents that can have a polarizing effect such as patchouli, sandalwood, or ylang-ylang. Other great options include grapefruit, rose, or bergamot. These smells can evoke the atmosphere of a luxury spa.

2 - Fresh Flowers.

This may be the simplest option, as it’s easy to run out to a florist and pick up a beautiful bouquet. Not only will flowers add to the visual appeal of your home, but the scent of fresh roses, for example, can often encourage people feel happy and relaxed.

3 - Open The Windows.

If you have time before a showing, open all the windows for 15 minutes or so. Yes, even in winter! Outside air can do wonders when it comes to removing unwanted odours from a home and leave the space feeling fresh. If it is cool outside, you can close the windows back up after a few minutes, which will still give the home time to warm up before prospective buyers arrive. 

Sell Your Home With Sue Heddle Homes

For more tips on selling your home, contact Sue Heddle Homes. Sue Heddle is an experienced Oakville realtor that always goes the extra mile to ensure her client’s get the results they want from the sale of their home. From free home staging, to understanding that the little things really do matter, working with Sue Heddle Homes will reduce the stress that often comes with real estate transactions. Call Sue today at (416) 906-7998 – we’re ready to help you sell your home!

Most people want to gather as much information as they can before they make a decision. Let’s be honest, asking Google for an answer is something we all do, likely on a daily basis! However, it’s so important to make sure you’re getting accurate and up to date information that’s relevant to your particular situation.

This is certainly true when it comes to real estate and making the decision to sell your home. You absolutely don’t want to make decisions about listing your home based on bad information. Not only can this have financial implications, but it can also make the process longer, more stressful, and you’ll end up with results that weren’t at all what you were looking for.

Sue Heddle Homes Provides the Real Estate Information You Need

As a trusted Oakville realtor with more than a decade of experience, Sue Heddle Homes can help you wade through all the information that’s out there about the current real estate market in Oakville, Burlington and Milton. 

When it comes to real estate, you want to make sure you get the most accurate information possible, based on the most up-to-date data that pertains to the Halton region. Not only can Sue Heddle Homes provide that, but we will also share our key insights that will make the available information relevant to you and your situation. For example, we’d be happy to tell you approximately how much your home would likely sell for today. 

Unfortunately, too many sellers don’t seek out the right information and end up listing their home for the wrong price. Just because you have a sale price you want to get for your home, doesn’t mean that’s what prospective buyers will pay!

Even if you’ve done many updates, it doesn’t mean that prospective buyers think they’re worth paying for. Additionally, your upgrades won’t be to everyone’s taste. We’ll help you look at similar neighbourhood comparable sales and with the right information, arrive at a sale price that will attract buyers and get you the best selling price possible for your home.

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