Rich van Seenus's (vanseenus) Blog

 PRICING STRATEGICALLY    Pricing your home to sell in Santa Barbara, CA The initial asking price of your home is a critical aspect of putting your property on the market.  To determine what a good asking price should be, you need to have a Comprehensive Market Analysis done on your home.   Let’...

Tips For Showing - Santa Barbara, CA - Here are some tips to think about to prepare your home to be shown on the market. In doing this, you will be ahead of most other sellers, our competition, in getting your home ready to be seen by other agents and prospective buyers.   INSIDE: Clear all unnec...

INFLUENCING THE SALE OF YOUR HOME In order to generate maximum interest and realize the most favorable selling price, your home must be expertly positioned in the marketplace. Although the listing price will strongly influence the sales process, many other factors come into play. Some of these fa...

ACHIEVING YOUR OBJECTIVES EVEN FOR THE MOST DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES, LOCATION AND PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS ARE THE KEY ELEMENTS IN DETERMINING VALUE.   Pricing can be an emotional decision, so a thoughtfully created Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) is an essential step in the listing process. Onc...

Homes with Air Conditioning in Santa Barbara, CA - Why doesn’t this home have AC? A request we sometimes get from out of town buyers is that they only want to look at homes with Air Conditioning. In one particular case, we were representing a Seller and the Buyer believed that the Seller should h...

Bank Owned Properties in Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara REO's Santa Barbara Financially Distressed Sales We often hear about foreclosure inventory being so high, but it is important to know every market is different and that the national averages we hear about do not apply to every market.  Be...

Santa Barbara Real Estate Market Supply Local Supply & Demand, when are we in Buyer’s or Seller’s market? One question we often come across is; what is the market supply?  We also find that this is a statistic that is also, not commonly followed.  Before we answer the question of market supply, i...

INFLUENCING THE SALE OF YOUR HOME   In order to generate maximum interest and realize the most favorable selling price, your home must be expertly positioned in the marketplace. Although the listing price will strongly influence the sales process, many other factors come into play. Some of these ...

What Are Buyers Asking? I was fortunate enough to be chosen to represent Sotheby’s International Realty at a University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) discussion panel hosted by Coastal Housing Partnership this last Wednesday.  The panel was held for the benefit of the faculty and staff of UC...

 PRICING STRATEGICALLY    Pricing your home to sell in Santa Barbara, CA The initial asking price of your home is a critical aspect of putting your property on the market.  To determine what a good asking price should be, you need to have a Comprehensive Market Analysis done on your home.   Let’...