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Selling Your North Texas Home? Smooth Sailing In Negotiating The Sale

Selling your North Texas home can be seamless when you have prepared your home, priced it right, and chosen a competent realtor, but the real nail-biting comes when you receive an offer. At Team Nelson, we understand that sellers don’t always know how to negotiate the sale of their homes, so we have a few tips to help make it easier and less stressful.

Evaluate these factors after you know the buyer will have no problem qualifying for a loan:

  • Does the buyer desire assistance with closing costs?
  • Is the buyer’s offer close to your asking price?
  • Are repairs or a credit for home improvements part of the deal asked for by the buyer?
  • Will your home appraise for the contract price?
  • How much earnest money is the buyer offering for deposit?

Determining whether you will accept the buyer’s offer often depends on the answers to these questions, and whether you have other offers or want to wait for additional offers.

Analyzing purchase offers

While it would be nice to think that every potential buyer would offer your asking price or even more, that simply isn’t the reality of it. Each offer will need to be carefully evaluated. At this point, you can negotiate with a buyer and the agent.

It’s also important that your Dallas real estate agent work as your partner at this stage. Your realtor can educate you in many ways, including educating you about the market you’re in, the rise and fall of home prices in your community, and the number of sellers vs. buyers – which can impact home prices.

Your options when it comes to buyers’ offers

Should you make a counteroffer? This is another consideration for sellers, and depends largely on the offer made by the buyer. You basically have three options: accepting the buyer’s offer, declining it, or making a counteroffer. Compromising in some areas is common; your realtor can provide you with guidance in regards to successfully negotiating the terms of the sale.

In addition, your North Texas real estate agent should be happy to provide you with documentation showing the net proceeds you can expect at varying sales prices.

At Team Nelson, we are dedicated to helping make the process of selling your home as streamlined and profitable as possible. If you’re considering the sale of your Flower Mound, Denton, or Frisco home, give us a call today!

What People Are Saying

This is the third house that Team Nelson has sold for us. With sales of homes dropping throughout the Metroplex Team Nelson had us an offer in less than 10 days which we took. The three other homes for sale within a three block area are still on the market after ours has closed.
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jtrickel4
11/17/2022
We love using Team Nelson to buy and sell homes! The entire team is incredibly knowledgeable, helpful, and responsive. Tara has been are go to for anything we need to know about local market and market trends. They will schedule a meeting in person at your home and give you honest expectations of the sell of your home. They meet and often exceed the expectations they set for their customers.
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Demi Devine
12/30/2022
Highly recommend working with Bill & Andra and their team at Your Home Free (Emma & Kelly) for your home buying & selling needs. We thoroughly interviewed 10 other brokers/realtors before deciding to work with their team and never regretted it. They are extremely professional, passionate, responsive, and experienced in the Dallas market. We greatly appreciate them & their time. You will be in goods hands with listing, selling, or buying your home!
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11/17/2022