Getting Your Home Ready To Sell in New York 

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How to get your NYC home ready to sell? It’s a good idea to find a proper answer before starting the listing process. A few things you can do are:

Make small and visible adjustments, renovations, and modifications to your home. This may include changing cabinets, fixing doors, and giving the exterior a fresh coat of paint if you have a brownstone. 

Clean and declutter the home before the pictures are taken for the listing. Then, keep it in this state when you attend to potential buyers. It’s also a good idea to depersonalize your home (remove photos and other personal objects) so the buyers have no trouble envisioning them and their families in this space.

Your New York City broker might recommend staging your home for maximum visual appeal. Professional staging might cost you a few thousand dollars at least, but if it gets you a better price or helps you sell faster, it’s worth it.

Make sure there aren’t any fundamental problems in the house. This is more a problem in brownstones than apartments. If there are, be ready to either drop the price or leave some money for repairs in the escrow. Or you can get them fixed before the sale.

A staged home with a ‘Time to Sell Your Home’ graphic, symbolizing home preparation for the market.

Based on what you are selling (property type) and in what kind of market (buyer’s or seller’s), the amount of time and effort you need to make your NYC home ready to sell may vary drastically. Many buyers may propose buying the property as-is in the seller’s market. But in the buyer’s market, you may have to make the property more appealing. 


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