Home Selling Quotes

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream.

I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.

The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.

I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947.

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

The one thing that Redfin has been really good at has been at delighting people.

Jonathan and I love flipping homes. We've been renovating and flipping houses since the '90s.

Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.

If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'

One reason I was so convinced that Redfin would work was that I never met anyone who bought or sold a home who thought the process was ideal.

Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!

Buyers look at everything. They open every drawer. They open every cabinet door. So make sure your underwear is folded nicely.

You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

I was an estate agent for three years. That was pretty grim.