Well another week of running from house to house trying to get them SOLD. Its not so much that there are no buyers- its just that there are no buyers that want to make a DECISION. The very best buyer client to have at the moment is one that is living with their IN LAWS and are about to go CRAZY and have a MILLION dollars CASH sitting in the bank ready to GO. THEN you have a motivated client and hopefully some good inventory to show to them. It’s become very apparent that in this market if you DON”T have to MOVE you wont. Lenders are nuts, buyers are waiting for “a little better house at a much less price! I am waiting to wake up and be Angelina Jolie- but that isn’t happening either- no Brad in my house today!
Been reading a lot of trade magazines hoping to pick up some useful information and I am always fascinated by staging TIPS as I have been to The Staging Institute yadda yadda so I know the basic “drill”. This article in a Real Estate magazine had a blurb on staging for Gen Y generation. Sorotoff interesting as my questions was HOW DO WE KNOW THE BUYERS COMING THROUGH THE LISTING ARE Y -Z -OR just normal 40 years olds looking for a house? Interesting. Evidently these “Echo Boomers” want the property to suit them instead of trying to change it to suit their lifestyle. VERY few houses are ready to go perfect- a new buyer WANTS the excitement of making the house their own. I guess is you are working in a area which is a Gen y MAGNET- This might makes sense. I can’t think of any in San Diego- maybe Northpark- that really suit a specific demographic. By the time they have a husband and even HALF a kid they head for Carmel Valley – a place they never would even have visited before!
Evidently Gen Y’rs like to HANG out… vs. the rest of us that like to do WHAT? So we are suppose to think Anthropology and Pier One instead of IKEA. News flash all my staging starts at Pier One and that was BEFORE I graduated from college and that was a LONG time ago! Go Green… well we all want to do that anytime we can – age does not make a difference. I do agree though that when I shop at Anthropology and Pier One I make notes and steal styling ideas whenever I can- changing them to make them my own. All in all the magazine blurb was interesting and really just shows that whether you are X- Y or Z – buyers just want a property to look inviting and they have the vision of how they would make it their own!
