Make Your House a Work of Art

02.25.17 by

Make Your Stuart House a Work of Art

Martin County - Sailfish fountain

Your house is a work of art; or at least it can be, in the hands of the right Realtor.

When you list your home for sale with a Realtor, rest assured that he/she will use a vast variety of marketing tools available in their professional arsenal to display and present your home to the very best effect; up to and including the portrayal of your home as a virtual work of art—and in a variety of interesting and increasingly high tech means:

1. The Realtor will photograph your home. Just about any residential sales listing will come complete with beautiful high definition photographs that showcase both the interior and exterior of your home. These pictures might appear on the Realtor’s website, in newspaper ads, and in the pages of real estate magazines, and will come accompanied by vivid and detailed written descriptions that also serve to define the benefits and selling points of your residence.

2. The Realtor will videotape your home. Many real estate professionals offer professional-style video shoots that capture the beauty and complexity of your residence; footage that will be streamed in the form of virtual home tours; videotaped open houses, so to speak, that will show interested home buyers every nook and cranny of your residence—and in what is literally in the best possible light.

3. The Realtor will draw your home. Even before the modern age of video and graphics, real estate professionals employed the use of detailed pen and paper illustrations in an effort to sell homes. These drawings could take the form of basic but defined illustrations created with a pencil, or a beautiful painted rendering that bears a strong likeness to a work of art. Traditionally real estate renderings have been included in packages along with press releases that advertise the sale of the home, and also have been printed as part and parcel of home for sale advertisements; whether they appear in newspapers, listing books and home magazines. These days one also can find renderings on the Realtor’s website, as a supplement to videos and high definition photographs that also show off the residence to the very best effect.

4. The Realtor will show your home. We all know that video, graphics and just the right lighting are not all that makes your home beautiful. Through open houses and prescheduled showings of your home, you and your Realtor can show potential buyers that your home truly is a work of art.

If you’re ready to list your Stuart (or Treasure Coast) house, give me a call (772-323-6996).

Gabe Sanders

Stuart FL Real Estate

Long-Range Strategy for Selling a Home in Palm City

06.12.15 by

Long-Range Strategy for Selling a Home in Palm City

 Lake Grove in Palm City

This is actually a situation that’s very common, but not much remarked upon: you know you are going to be selling your Palm City home—only not for a while…and perhaps not for a very long while! Is there anything you should be doing now, long before actual preparations are called for?

There sure is! Let’s call these low-intensity preparations. They may be low-intensity in the immediacy department, but when the distant day arrives when you are selling your home, they can be very fortuitous. Here are some of the elements you can benefit from putting into action long before you expect to need them—

LANDSCAPING:

Number One (the most obvious and perhaps most important) is landscaping. Trees and bushes are part of the backdrop of our everyday living, and something many people—even gardeners—may tend to accept without envisioning large-scale changes. That’s because they grow so slowly it doesn’t seem realistic to worry about what might be possible. But when you think long-range, landscaping should be at the forefront. When the time comes for selling your home, a vision first initiated five or 10 years earlier can become a colorful and shady reality, worth a very great deal in terms of the overall impression your Palm City home makes.

THE MECHANICALS:

It’s human nature to just put up with heating, plumbing, air conditioning and other systems that could operate much more conveniently and economically, but which are expensive to overhaul. But think realistically: if you know that later on you will be selling your Palm City home—and realistically will certainly have to upgrade those vexing mechanicals when that happens—give serious thought to taking action earlier…even NOW! Not only will you be able to enjoy the improvement­, it’s entirely possible that savings realized from the gains in efficiency will materially offset your initial outlay. Why let the future owners get all the benefit?

PHOTOGRAPHY:

When you are selling a home, photography is one of the most impactful marketing tools you’ll have at your disposal. A couple of years before you plan to join the Palm City listings, keep a camera ready to snap those fleeting moments when the season and light combine to make some detail of garden or home magically illuminated. Even a professional photographer can’t ‘make’ such moments happen. As Ansel Adams’ outdoor masterpieces confirmed: the perfect light at the perfect season is worth more than money can buy.

INFORMATION:

It doesn’t hurt to keep abreast of happenings in the national and Martin County real estate market, so that you’re informed about what to expect when you ultimately join the fray. One of the best ways to do that (other than to keep reading my blog) is to check out the neighborhood listings from time to time: they’re here on my site. And one of the best ways to proceed when the moment does arrive when you will be selling your home in Palm City is (of course) to give me a call!