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Selling Your Home in Antioch

Anyone can put a home on the market. It's how we position, present, and promote it that can make the difference in what you walk away with.

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Selling Your Home in Antioch

Antioch spans older riverside streets and newer hillside subdivisions, so two houses a few miles apart can be completely different sales. If you are selling here, that is not background information. It is the thing your pricing and your marketing both have to answer.

Antioch has a downtown by the river that is older than most of what surrounds it. The market is wide enough that price per square foot swings hard across a few miles.

What is my Antioch home worth?

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How Antioch actually prices

This is the East County city where citywide averages do the most damage, and where automated estimates miss worst.

Here there is more competing inventory than in the smaller markets, so a listing that does not stand out in week one simply gets absorbed.

Buyers looking here almost always look at Oakley, Pittsburg and Brentwood as well. Antioch gets weighed against Oakley and Pittsburg, usually on entry price and commute.

What matters when you are selling your home

The job is making sure that in the first seven to ten days your house is live, the people most likely to pay the most for it have seen it, presented properly. After that window a listing stops being new and becomes inventory. Price reductions follow. Buyers start asking what is wrong with it.

Antioch buyers are often comparing your street against a street that is nothing like it, and part of our job is making the difference visible.

Our sellers describe it in their own reviews better than we can. One called it an aggressive marketing approach that got their home exposure to many buyers. Another had a buyer in five days at over list. Across the team there are 201 published reviews averaging 4.9 stars.

The mistake to avoid in Antioch

The one we see most often here is pricing off a citywide figure, which in a city this varied describes almost no actual house.

Putting a property into the MLS takes about twenty minutes and every licensed agent in this county can do it. If that were the job you would be right to hire whoever charges least.

Who is buying in Antioch

First-time buyers and investors, drawn by the entry price Antioch still offers. You are looking at the San Joaquin River, the historic downtown, and the newer south side up the hill.

Talk to us about Antioch

The Mashore Group works across the Bay Area from an office at 44 Sycamore Ave in Brentwood. Krista Mashore has sold more than 2,300 homes here over more than two decades. Across the team there are 201 published reviews averaging 4.9 stars.

If you want to talk about selling your home in Antioch call (925) 325-4663. A first conversation costs nothing and carries no pitch, and if the honest answer is that you should wait, we will say so.

We work every part of this city, which matters more here than anywhere else out east, and that is worth more in Antioch than a general opinion about the county.

Frequently Asked Questions

How should a Antioch home be priced?

This is the East County city where citywide averages do the most damage, and where automated estimates miss worst.

What repairs are worth doing first?

Fewer than most people expect. A small number of items return more than they cost and the rest is money you do not get back. We walk the house and tell you specifically rather than handing you a checklist.

What makes your marketing different?

Most listings go live and then wait to be found. We build the photography, video and campaign before launch so week one is the strongest week. Clients name it unprompted in their reviews.

What goes wrong most often in Antioch?

The most common mistake is pricing off a citywide figure, which in a city this varied describes almost no actual house. We work every part of this city, which matters more here than anywhere else out east.

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What selling your home looks like in Antioch

The oldest and largest of the East County cities, right on the San Joaquin.

Antioch covers a lot of ground and a lot of price points, from the older streets near the river to the newer subdivisions up the hill. Two houses a few miles apart can be completely different sales.

That spread is exactly why a generic online estimate tends to be furthest off here.

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