Pre-Listing Home Inspection

A pre-listing home inspection is highly recommended before you list your home for sale.

Having a pre-listing home inspection completed can help prevent the loss of a sale and make for a smoother transaction.

Why? Isn’t the buyer going to have an inspection completed anyway?

Yes, most likely. But having your home inspected before a buyer’s inspection can be detrimental!

• The home inspection is completed in the same manner as pre-purchase home inspection. The key difference is the inspection is completed for you, the seller, rather than the buyer.
• Having the inspection report information ahead of time will enable you to make any necessary repairs before listing the home for sale.
• A long list of needed repairs, even if considered to be minor, could potentially scare away a potential buyer.
• Making the needed repairs or improvements prior to listing your home for sale can help prevent renegotiation, enable you to get the selling price and overall make for a smoother sales transaction.

Our local real estate market has recently transitioned from a seller’s to a buyer’s market. In summary, more homes are available. Buyers have more choices and can often times be a bit more “picky”.

Ensuring your home is in tip-top shape before listing it for sale can potentially make all the difference.