If you are ready to sell your in a timely manner, your listing will be crucial. Your listing is your public declaration to the world that your home is for sale. It is your home's calling card, and it is how your home's next owner is most likely to find it, which is why you want to put effort into creating the best possible listening.

Make Sure You Get the Price Right

Don't just pick a price for your home and throw it on the listing. You need to work with your agent and do market research to find the right value for your home. Have a home appraiser look at your home. Research other homes that are similar that have sold over the past six months to a year. If you have a really unique listing, you may need to go with a larger time frame. Really look at what you have to offer, the value of what you have to offer, and the market. Come up with a price that reflects the value of your home as well as a price that will motivate people to want to move on your listing and make an offer.

Improve the Outside Appearance

Next, be sure to invest some time into improving the outside appearance of your home. The curb appeal of your home really matters. Many buyers will overlook your home if they pull up or drive by and see that you have tall weeds growing in the front yard, or the paint is chipping. It may be unfair, but most people assume, on a conscious and unconscious level, that if the outside of the home doesn't look great, neither will the inside of the home.

Take the time to improve the outside appearance of your home. Pull the weeds. Plant some pretty flowers. Give your home a fresh coat of paint. Making these changes to the outside of your home can really help increase the appeal of your home and help your listing sell.

Have a Professional Stage Your Home

Finally, hire a professional to stage your home. A professional will be able to tell you what to get rid of that will turn-off potential buyers. They will give you advice on rooms that you should repair, and they will rearrange your furniture in an appealing way. They can even provide you with rented furniture to help stage different rooms in the house.

You want people to walk into a home and wish that it were there home. That is what a home stager is an expert in. They know how to induce home envy in people shopping for a home, and the right set-up can really make all the difference.

If you are ready to list your luxury single family home, make sure you get the price right, take the time to improve the outside appearance of your home, and hire a home stager who will know how to set-up your home in a way that makes people want to turn your home into their home. Your listing is your home's calling card; make sure you nail it.