Matthews · Selling Your Home
Selling Your Home in Matthews, Where Updates Decide the Price
Evidence before any price. Your price is built from what sold, what is competing and what is happening now, the home is prepared before it launches, and you hear from us weekly until it sells.
Selling Your Home in Matthews: What Buyers Compare
Selling your home in Matthews usually means selling a home with some age, in a neighborhood built from the mid-1980s through the 2000s. Two homes on the same street can be priced far apart once updates are counted, and buyers notice. A 1990s home that has been updated top to bottom and one that is close to original may look alike in photos and be very different purchases.
Buyers here are also often comparing Matthews with Mint Hill next door, so your home's price has to make sense against both.
Get Your Seller Market Position Review
Why Matthews Sellers Work With Carolina Signature Properties
Carolina Signature Properties starts with a Seller Market Position Review that weighs what has been updated in your home against what sold nearby and what is competing now, in Matthews and Mint Hill. Then we lay out pricing options with the tradeoffs. Your market position explains the method.
For an older home, preparation matters most. The pre-listing inspection consultation decides what to fix before a buyer's inspector finds it and what is better disclosed and priced in, and the staging walkthrough makes sure the updates you have made are what buyers remember. Selling your home covers the full approach.
What Buyers Value in Matthews
- Downtown Matthews and its shops, restaurants and festivals.
- Mature trees and wooded lots.
- Schools, within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, confirmed by address.
- The drive, about 11 to 12 miles to uptown on US 74.
- Your updates, which separate your home from similar ones.
If you are also buying, moving up in Matthews and downsizing in Matthews cover planning both sides.
Start With Where Your Home Sits
Talk with us about selling your Matthews home, and start with a Seller Market Position Review. Once it is listed, you hear from us every week, and the pricing is refreshed monthly until it sells.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do updates affect the price of a Matthews home?
A great deal. In neighborhoods built from the 1980s to 2000s, updated homes and original homes on the same street can be priced far apart.
Do buyers compare Matthews with Mint Hill?
Often. The two towns share a border and a commute, so we price against both.
Should I get a pre-listing inspection?
Not always. We talk it through in the pre-listing inspection consultation, based on your home's age and condition.
Matthews
What selling your home looks like in Matthews
A small town that runs straight into Charlotte, with a downtown of its own and more shopping and restaurants close to home.
- The homes
- A small town that runs straight into Charlotte: driving between the two, you can hardly tell where one ends and the other begins. It sits between Charlotte and Indian Trail.
- Why people choose it
- Buyers who want what draws people to Mint Hill, an easy drive into Charlotte, but with more shopping and restaurants close to home.
- Schools people ask about
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, including Matthews, Crown Point and Elizabeth Lane elementaries and David W. Butler High. Assignment depends on the address.
- Getting around
- About 11 to 12 miles from uptown Charlotte. US 74 and I-485 serve Matthews, and NC 51 runs through town and connects with US 74.
- Nearby
- Downtown Matthews and its library branch; Matthews Alive, the Labor Day festival and parade; Novant Health Matthews Medical Center; the Four Mile Creek Greenway, the Matthews Heritage Trail, Purser-Hulsey Park and the Sportsplex.
- The trade-off
- The fair comparison is with Charlotte and Mint Hill, not Harrisburg. Next to Mint Hill there is very little difference, except that Matthews has more shopping and restaurants.
The method
How we do it in Matthews
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