Steps to Selling Your House
An Online Real Estate Guide from the Experts at HomePoint.com

1. Determine your home's value in today's marketplace
2. Find out what is currently available for sale in your area or neighborhood
3. Estimate the proceeds from selling your home
4. Determine what needs to be repaired or upgraded before you sell
5. Make necessary repairs – find qualified contractors
6. What's the best way to sell your home?
7. Decide whether and how to use an agent or sell your home yourself
8. Determine your sales price
9. Sign a listing agreement with a real estate agent
10. Create a proactive home marketing plan
11. How to handle showing your house to potential buyers
12. Get showing feedback
13. Provide property disclosures
14. Continue home marketing efforts & price adjustments
15. How to negotiate home selling price upon receiving an offer
16. Sign all real estate contract documents
17. Order title insurance commitment
18. The mortgage application process: track the buyer's progress
19. The home inspection process
20. The title process & closing the sale of your home

Thinking about selling your home?

Is your family growing? Taking a new job in another city? Wondering if this might be a good time to sell your house?

Selling a house can be a trying process, even for someone who's done it before!

How do I get the best price for my home? Should I try to sell my house myself or use a REALTOR®? If I use a REALTOR®, how should I use them? What do I need to do to get my house ready to sell? How do I sell my home fast? These are just some of the common questions we've heard.

Find the best ways to sell your home - based on 50 years of real estate experience

As part of HomePoint.com's commitment to providing independent, unbiased real estate advice to home sellers, we have compiled this free online real estate selling guide. This seller's manual represents more than 50 years of real estate experience, including that of a real estate investor, a real estate professor and the online community. We have summarized their expert advice here to help you sell your house faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.

We hope you find this information useful, and are available to answer your questions between 9 am and 9 pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, at 1-800-416-7949 .

First Step: Determine your home's value in today's marketplace