Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide

Make the real estate market work for you!

Whether your local real estate market is super-heated or sluggish, there are steps you can take to reach the right buyers, pick the best offer, and ultimately get top dollar for your home. NAREE award winnerSelling Your House: Nolo’s Essential Guide will take you through the process from start to finish. And, you’ll learn how to do it all in the shortest possible time.

Real estate expert and best-selling author Ilona Bray gives you the inside scoop on:

• setting a price that will attract buyers
• finding the right real estate agent
• safely opening your home to visitors
• determining which repairs and upgrades pay off
• making legally required disclosures to buyers
• evaluating purchase offers, and
• negotiating and closing escrow successfully.

Provides tips from industry pros―including real estate agents, attorneys, home stagers, and more―as well as stories from home sellers. The 4th edition also includes changes in industry practices resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ilona Bray is an author and legal editor at Nolo, specializing in real estate, immigration law, and nonprofit fundraising. She is coauthor of Becoming a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Immigration Made Easy, Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home and numerous other top selling books. Bray's working background includes solo practice, nonprofit, and corporate stints, as well as long periods of volunteering, including an internship at Amnesty International's main legal office in London. She received her law degree and a Masters degree in East Asian (Chinese) Studies from the University of Washington. Bray also blogs on Nolo's Immigration Law Blog.