910: Zillow’s “Trends Expert” on How to Sell Your Home Faster (and For More!) w/Amanda Pendleton

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Investing, Business

4.8 • 16.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Did you know that a certain shade of paint can help you sell your home for more? Or that one type of countertop could cause buyers to get into a bidding war over your house? What about the one inexpensive outdoor improvement that families LOVE to see when touring homes? Today, we brought on Zillow’s Home Trends Expert, Amanda Pendleton, to share all the secrets to help you sell your home faster and for more! Amanda’s team at Zillow takes design data to a whole new level. They know which paint colors prospective buyers want to see, the type of pictures you MUST have on your listing, and the cheap upgrades any homeowner can make to get even more bids on their home. In this episode, she’s sharing much of what her team has learned so you can not only sell for more but also learn the tricks sellers are using when you go to buy your next home. First, Amanda updates us on housing inventory and outlines today’s “typical buyer.” Then we ask, “Is now the right time to sell?” Plus, we’ll get Amanda’s top tweaks to make to your home so you can sell for more. But it’s not just eye-catching upgrades we’re talking about. Amanda also shares the home renovations with the lowest ROI (return on investment) and the one pricey upgrade that is RARELY worth the money. In This Episode We Cover: Home renovations that cost less than $5,000 but can BOOST your property value The free home-selling tweaks you can make that will bring in more buyers The upgrades that will hurt your home when trying to sell and could be a negative investment 2024’s typical buyer, and exactly what they’re looking for when shopping for homes A housing inventory update and why we’re slowly starting to see homes come on the market The one super affordable upgrade anyone can make to their backyard And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Agent Find a Lender BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch Join BiggerPockets for FREE Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area Expand Your Investing Knowledge With the BiggerPockets Books Be a Guest on the BiggerPockets Podcast Dave's BiggerPockets Profile Dave's Instagram Henry's BiggerPockets Profile Henry's Instagram Hear Dave and Henry On The “On the Market” Podcast BiggerPockets' Instagram Zillow Data From Today’s Show: Zillow Research Page Best Interior Paint Colors for Selling Your House Connect with Amanda: Amanda's LinkedIn Amanda's X/Twitter Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-910 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email advertise@biggerpockets.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bigger Pockets Podcast. I'm your host Dave Meyer and with me today is Henry Washington.
0:06.0	So today we have an awesome show for you and Henry I think you're going to like this one.
0:10.4	We're going to be talking about a side of real estate, investing, home buying that we don't
0:16.0	talk about that much on this show, which is selling your home. We love to talk about buying,
0:20.7	that's how you grow your portfolio portfolio that's how you find the house
0:23.2	that you're going to live in but selling is actually when you make all the money and
0:28.4	you return all that capital that you've put into your home so it's a pretty important part of the process.
0:34.7	So to help our listeners with this topic,
0:37.2	where you're bringing on the trends expert from Zillow.
0:40.6	Her name is Amanda Pendleton.
0:43.4	Henry, can you tell us what we're going to learn about today?
0:45.9	Absolutely.
0:47.3	We're going to talk about what's going on in the real estate market
0:50.0	in terms of who are the people that are actually buying in this market?
0:53.2	Are there people buying?
0:54.4	Who are the people that are actually selling in this market?
0:56.6	What are the demographics?
0:57.4	What do they look like?
0:58.1	We'll talk about interior and exterior design hacks that anyone can use to increase the value or sales price of their home.
1:07.0	We're also going to talk about how do you capitalize on the eyeballs that are viewing your home, both in person and virtually.
1:13.6	Sounds like a super exciting show and for anyone out there who's listening to this
1:17.7	whether you're an investor, a home buyer, a home seller,
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