According to the Greater Cincinnati Multiple Listing Service, on May 26, 2008 there where 124 homes for sale in Indian Hill.  The prices ranged from $249,500 to $6,900,000.  In 2007 the average sales price was $1,171,846.  This year Randy and I have taken motivated buyers through many of the homes for sale in Indian Hill.   The homes are fantastic and look great – but it is a buyers market!  The high end homes are not moving very fast, but they are selling.   On May 26, there where 19 homes pending (under contract, but not closed).  So there are buyers out there, but not enough for the current inventory levels.

Parks – Indian Hill has over 10  fantastic parks for  residents to enjoy.  There are tennis courts, baseball and softball diamonds, soccer and lacrosse fields.  In 2002 the Village acquired a former gravel site, called Grand Valley.  Located in Camp Dennison, the 350 acre site has been the focus of a reclamation project to restore wildlife and natural beauty.  As a resident, you can get a pass to the park where you can walk the trails, go fishing or just watch the wild life.  

Schools – Indian Hill has four public schools (primary, elementary, middle and high school). Indian Hill’s high school was ranked 48th in the nation by U.S. News and World report.   The State of Ohio has rated Indian Hill’s public school as excellent for the 2006 – 2007 school year.

Good Indian Hill Links

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As a seller, you look at your home as the place where you live.    To sell your home quickly, you will need to understand how a buyer will look at your home.  Home buyers use emotion, not facts, when looking at a home.   A home buyer is buying a dream, a lifestyle.  The home buyer needs to see their dream or lifestyle in your home.  

What do I mean by this?  When a buyer sees your kitchen, they are dreaming about the big family get together.  They are thinking about Sunday morning with the kids.  They are not thinking about how YOU live in the home.   

How do you sell a dream?   It is called home staging. Home staging is not decorating.  When you decorate a home you are personalizing the home for you.  When you stage a home you are de-personalizing the home so others can see their dream (not yours) in the home.

Look at your home, does it look like a model home?  Are there lots of family photos around?  Is the kitchen counter covered with stuff?    Is your furniture arranged so you can use the room or is it arranged to show off the room?  Are mirrors used to make your rooms look bigger?  Is all the “clutter” and extra stuff removed?  Everyone loves a model home because they can picture in their mind their family being happy in the home. How do they do this? Model homes are staged and sparsely decorated!

As an Accredited Staging Professional, I help my clients through the staging process.   Staging Professionals are very good at making your home inspire other people’s dreams. We often find the cost of staging a home is less than the first price reduction.  Recent statistics from www.stagedhomes.com prove the point: 

• Average days on market for staged homes is currently 31.8 days
• Average days on market for Non-Staged homes is 160 days

So you want to sell your home quickly for as much money as possible?  Then hire a Real Estate Team who can work with you to properly price and professionally stage your home.

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