How can You Safely Sell a Home During the COVID-19 Crisis?

Selling a home during a pandemic will add a slew of new safety concerns to the mix. It often takes longer and costs more than you think, and it can be an emotional drain. That’s in normal times.

But also in the COVID-19 crisis, real estate sales are continuing. Recently, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security classified real estate as an essential service, although local laws may affect what is permitted, and may ban certain activities such as open houses. (Be sure to check what's OK in your area.)

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COVID-19 Home Seller Protection Plan

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Virtual showings of the listings:

A Virtual Showing gives any interested buyer the ability to walk through your home using technology similar to Google Street View.  There are clickable arrows that will allow a person, from their computer, to walk through the entire home.  A buyer can get a perspective from any angle allowing the viewer to see the room in its entirety, instead of our normal panoramic photos only seeing it from one angle.

Like us, Classic homes real estate We are selling homes 100% virtually with no need for many people to enter your home. Since we’re a responsible, experienced team & have helped thousands of families with selling their homes over the last 30 years, we have exclusive & proprietary systems to create high demand for your home online, while doing everything we can to keep your family safe.

BEFORE you even list your home with us, we prepare a total market analysis of your home, which includes us taking a virtual tour together on-line of all the comparable home sales as well as the current active listings in the area.

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Open houses with large groups of people are mostly canceled for now, but many buyers still want to view a home in person before making an offer. Sellers, however, may worry about having strangers in their homes. So, in places where face-to-face showings are still happening, real estate agents are taking some extra steps to protect homeowners and only allowing them in on a case-by-case basis.

“This is not a time for looky-loos,” says Mumoli, who is limiting in-person showings to buyers with loan pre-approval letters.

Along with a pre-approval, Hornburg says she makes sure the potential buyer has viewed the virtual home tour and the seller’s property disclosure statement before being allowed in.

“We also have delivered ‘showing kits’ to our listings that contain sanitizer, booties, and gloves for people to use during the showing,” Hornburg says.

Before a home showing, she advises sellers to clean and disinfect high-touch areas, like countertops and doorknobs, and to leave lights on and doors, closets, and cabinets open to limit what visitors need to touch. And, put a sign on the front door requesting people viewing the home to take off their shoes.

Also, make hand sanitizer and soap available with signs encouraging hand-washing. Once the showing is over, clean and disinfect thoroughly to lower your exposure risk to whatever the buyers may have brought in with them.

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Using this information, together we determine the market value of your home. This also is indicative of your guarantee price, which you receive upfront before we begin marketing your home. The timing of your move is on your timeline.

100% VIRTUAL EXPLAINED: Our team has built a database of over 10,000 buyers looking to buy a home. We match your home’s criteria to our database of buyers’ search criteria. We then send your home’s virtual tour video to those matched buyers! (Video tour is done by either our in-house photographer or yourself – if you don’t want a photographer in your home don’t worry, we’ll show you how to do it). We will negotiate with all interested buyers and email the offer documents. You then receive an acceptable offer between you and the buyer on your home and then choose a closing date and sign all the paperwork online->virtually, both stress-free & pain-free!

When you access our COVID-19 Seller Protection Program, you can sell your home without having to worry about it actually selling or risking your family’s health!
The best part about our COVID-19 Seller Protection Program is that you reduce the usual stress and worry that most home sellers have:

• Reduce the possibility of sick buyers coming into your home.

• You choose the highest offering price and the closing date.

• No emotional roller coaster.

• No chance of getting stuck owning two homes.

• All can be done virtually—even the paperwork!
   

Our COVID-19 Seller Protection Program helps keep the home selling process safe in these uncertain times.

Get more information by completing the form (click here) or call Barry or Angela at: Classic Homes Real Estate at 617-328-5800 and start packing!