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Selling Your Port-Elizabeth Home in a Slow Market: Proven Strategies for Success

April 15, 2025

In a slow real estate market, selling a home can feel like an uphill battle. Fewer buyers, longer listing times, and heightened competition can make it challenging to attract the right offer. Whether you’re a real estate agent helping clients or a property investor who buys homes directly, the key to success lies in employing … Continued

3 Steps For Selling Your House To A Friend or Family Member In Port-Elizabeth

April 14, 2025

By marthinus

Selling your house to a friend or family member can be a pleasant, smooth transaction . . . or it can be a painful, enemy-making disaster. Keep in mind that you will be transferring ownership of your most valuable asset, one that you may have strong emotional ties to from living there for years. And … Continued

Different Agent Strategies For Selling Houses In Port-Elizabeth

April 10, 2025

By marthinus

If you ask for advice on house-selling strategies, you are likely to get responses that are all over the board, from sound to thoroughly silly. As they say, everyone has an opinion. Top-selling agents, though, are fairly well in agreement on the most effective strategies, and a lot of it has to do with marketing. … Continued

6 Staging Secrets For Your House In Port-Elizabeth

April 2, 2025

By marthinus

If you’re sitting around waiting for your house to sell, it can feel as if everyone else has some special staging secrets that you aren’t privy to. But don’t worry – We’re blowing the lid off those secrets that real estate agents and staging professionals everywhere use to help home sell faster and for higher prices. Here … Continued

5 Things To Do Before Inspections and Valuations When Selling Your House in Port-Elizabeth

March 31, 2025

By marthinus

The process of selling a house has a lot of parts that must be in place for everything to go smoothly, and a few of those parts cause more anxiety than all the rest. Among the anxiety-inducing steps in the process are the inspection and the valuation. You can, however, reduce the stress and anxiety … Continued

Top 5 Things That Stop Your House From Selling In Port-Elizabeth

March 30, 2025

By marthinus

You put your house on the market . . . and nothing happens. So you wait and wait, but still, don’t have a showing or get any offers, and then panic sets in. That’s a scenario that all sellers fear, but it doesn’t have to happen, especially if you are aware of the common causes. … Continued

What A Slowing Real Estate Market Means For Your Port-Elizabeth Property

March 27, 2025

By marthinus

In a nutshell, when a real estate market slows, it typically takes longer to sell a property. And, as all agents will tell you, the longer a property is on the market, the harder it is to sell and will usually sell for less. While a slowing market is not all doom and gloom for … Continued

6 Things People Forget To Do When Selling a House in Port-Elizabeth

March 27, 2025

By marthinus

Once you’ve made the decision to put your home on the market, there’s a lot of work to be done to prepare every square inch to get you the most from your sale. Let’s take a moment to look at how you can get everything in tip-top shape with these 6 things people forget to … Continued

Property and Houses for Sale in Port Elizabeth: Your Ultimate Guide

March 26, 2025

By marthinus

Port Elizabeth, also known as Gqeberha, is a beautiful coastal city in South Africa that offers a range of properties to suit various lifestyles and budgets. Whether you’re a first-time buyer, a family looking for a spacious home, or an investor seeking opportunities, Port Elizabeth has plenty to offer. Why Choose Port Elizabeth? Port Elizabeth … Continued

How An Agent Will Calculate A CMA for Your House In Port-Elizabeth

March 26, 2025

By marthinus

Real estate agents calculate a CMA – a comparative market analysis – to help determine the selling price of a house. To generate a CMA, your agent will compare the house to similar recently sold houses in the area, looking at active, recently sold, and expired listings for houses as similar to yours as possible. … Continued