Portsmouth NH Real Estate – Spring Home Selling Tips – Part 1

Thinking about selling your Portsmouth home or
condo?  Well spring is just around the corner and I thought some
spring-selling tips might be helpful to get your home or condo ready for today’s real estate market.

To see what needs to be done to get the outside of your home
in shape to put it up for sale and to help have your home stand out as much as
possible from your competition, take a good slow walk around the around the
outside of your home. 

 

Look at it like a potential buyer might - that requires a critical eye
because that’s just how buyers look at homes and condos for sale here in the
Portsmouth NH area market.

Start your spring home maintenance by looking at:      

Portsmouth New Hampshire Real Estate – Seacoast Maine Market Reports January 2008

Real Estate Market Reports for Seacoast
Maine Towns – Eliot, Kittery, York, South Berwick for
January 2008

Kittery Maine Real Estate Market Report:

There are presently 82 homes and 25 condos for sale in Kittery
ME.

- Homes prices range from $119,900 to $5,500,000
- Condos prices range
from $129,900 to $1,395,000
- Pending sales for homes – 13
- Pending sales
for condod – 1
- Homes sold for January – 5
- Condos sold for January -
3
- Sold prices for homes ranged from $144,000 to $664,000
- Sold prices
for condos ranged from $65,000 to $399,900

Portsmouth New Hampshire Real Estate – Seacoast Real Estate Market Reports for January 2008

Real Estate Market Reports for Rye, New Castle, Greenland, Newington -
January 2008

Rye New Hampshire Real Estate Market
Report:

There are presently 5 condos and 54 homes for sale in
Rye NH. 

- Homes prices range from $312,500 to $3,950,000
- Condo prices range from
$195,900 to $1,095,000
- Pending Sales for homes in January - 3
- Pending
Sales for condos in January – 0
- Homes sold for January – 4
- Condos sold
for January – 1
- Sold Prices for homes ranged from $276,500 to $360,000
-
Sold Price for the condo was $1,100,000

Portsmouth NH Portsmouth Real Estate – Seacoast Homes Market Reports

Real Estate Market Reports for Hampton, North Hampton, Stratham, Exeter -
January 2008

Hampton New Hampshire Real Estate Market
Report:

There are presently 101 homes and 172 condos for sale
in Hampton NH.

- Homes prices range from $149,000 to $1,795,000
- Condos prices range
from $79,900 to $950,000
- Pending sales for homes – 4
- Pending sales for
condos – 5
- Homes sold for January – 6
- Condos sold for January – 2
-
Sold prices for homes ranged from $230,000 to $415,000
- Sold prices for
condos ranges from $110,000 to $224,000

 

Portsmouth New Hampshire Real Estate – Inspections Before Selling Pay Off

Portsmouth NH Real Estate For Sale

Are you a homeowner in the Portsmouth NH Seacoast
real estate market?  Are you thinking about selling your home
or condo? 

If you are, I would encourage you to have home inspections
done before putting your home on the market.

Why?  There are a number of good reasons to do so! 

The first, and the most important ,reason is so you can know in advance what
inspectors will be finding and telling your potential buyers.  Forewarned is
forearmed, and in this case, that’s a GREAT thing!  There is no perfect house,
not even new construction, so just know right up front that a home inspector is
going to find something, and most likely several somethings at the very
least.

Knowing about problems before putting Portsmouth homes and
condos on the market for sale, provides you the opportunity to address
those items before they ever become an issue.  If the issues that an inspection
reveals are minor in nature, you’re better off taking care of them right away so
they won’t become an issue in the buyer’s inspection.  Major issues revealed are
also best taken care of as well because many buyers are not interested, nor do
they have the wherewithal to take care of major problems.  Those also tend to
scare away more homebuyers as well. 

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