{"id":30788,"date":"2024-07-25T01:40:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T08:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/?p=30788"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:54:54","slug":"steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Straightforward Steps to Selling a House with a Realtor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Figuring out how to sell your house<\/a>\u00a0can be daunting: from listing your property<\/a> and lining up showings<\/a> to making repairs and reviewing offers, there are many moving parts. Fortunately, there are steps to follow in this process to give you a road map for success. This article will walk through seven steps to get you from dreaming to closing without losing time, capital, or your right mind in the process.<\/p>\n

Marketing your home \u201cfor sale by owner<\/a>\u201d (known as FSBO) or selling to an iBuyer<\/a> (instant buyer) like Opendoor or Offerpad are options that may seem to prioritize profit and speed, respectively. But the most conventionally respected process for selling your home involves a licensed Realtor, and there are proven reasons why. Chiefly, selling with an agent\u2019s help will earn you top dollar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\n
\n
\n \"homelight\n <\/div>\n \n

Find a top real estate agent near you<\/h3>\n

We analyze millions of home sales to find real estate agents that sell homes faster and for more money. It takes just two minutes to match you with your personalized recommendations.<\/p>\n \n

\n Find Agent<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Realtors are experts on the current market in your area, and they know how to market your home<\/a> at its full earning potential. For these reasons, according to the National Association of Realtors, 89% of sellers<\/a> were assisted by a real estate agent last year when selling their home.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you can expect if you sell your house with a Realtor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Selling a house can be daunting. Move from listing to closing with confidence by following these 7 steps to selling a house with a Realtor\u00ae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":30791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[319,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-selling-advice","category-working-with-agents"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n7 Straightforward Steps to Selling a House with a Realtor\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Selling a house can be daunting. Move from listing to closing with confidence by following these 7 steps to selling a house with a Realtor\u00ae.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"7 Straightforward Steps to Selling a House with a Realtor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Selling a house can be daunting. Move from listing to closing with confidence by following these 7 steps to selling a house with a Realtor\u00ae.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"HomeLight Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gohomelight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-25T08:40:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-29T16:54:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/hl-blog.homelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Meaghan Hunt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@gohomelight\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@gohomelight\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Meaghan Hunt\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"10 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"7 Straightforward Steps to Selling a House with a Realtor\u00ae","description":"Selling a house can be daunting. Move from listing to closing with confidence by following these 7 steps to selling a house with a Realtor\u00ae.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"7 Straightforward Steps to Selling a House with a Realtor","og_description":"Selling a house can be daunting. Move from listing to closing with confidence by following these 7 steps to selling a house with a Realtor\u00ae.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/","og_site_name":"HomeLight Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gohomelight\/","article_published_time":"2024-07-25T08:40:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-05-29T16:54:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1500,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/hl-blog.homelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Meaghan Hunt","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@gohomelight","twitter_site":"@gohomelight","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Meaghan Hunt","Est. reading time":"10 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/"},"author":{"name":"Meaghan Hunt","@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/56031b32f785b3480b6acbe216965aea"},"headline":"7 Straightforward Steps to Selling a House with a Realtor","datePublished":"2024-07-25T08:40:51+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-29T16:54:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/"},"wordCount":208,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor.png","articleSection":["Selling Advice","Working with real estate agents"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/","url":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/","name":"7 Straightforward Steps to Selling a House with a Realtor\u00ae","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor.png","datePublished":"2024-07-25T08:40:51+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-29T16:54:54+00:00","description":"Selling a house can be daunting. Move from listing to closing with confidence by following these 7 steps to selling a house with a Realtor\u00ae.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor.png","width":1500,"height":800,"caption":"Source: (AlexLinck \/ Shutterstock)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/steps-to-selling-a-house-with-a-realtor\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"7 Straightforward Steps to Selling a House with a Realtor"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/","name":"HomeLight Blog","description":"Real Estate Advice from America's Top Agents","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"HomeLight","url":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/logo-hr-color.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/logo-hr-color.png","width":1348,"height":262,"caption":"HomeLight"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gohomelight\/","https:\/\/x.com\/gohomelight","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/homelight\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCimugR9XF17-OZ7B9fNnxWw","https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HomeLight"],"description":"Everything you need to know to sell your house faster and for more money. Articles, guides, and advice from top agents all over the U.S.","email":"support@homelight.com","telephone":"(888) 688-0350","legalName":"HomeLight","foundingDate":"2012-01-01","numberOfEmployees":{"@type":"QuantitativeValue","minValue":"201","maxValue":"500"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/56031b32f785b3480b6acbe216965aea","name":"Meaghan Hunt","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f759186d03d036f125f8489f2f48a2c272cebe24652b3ffa4fdc7661dbbc695?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f759186d03d036f125f8489f2f48a2c272cebe24652b3ffa4fdc7661dbbc695?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Meaghan Hunt"},"description":"Meaghan Hunt is a writer and editor based in Oklahoma City. She has over a decade of experience writing and editing for the web, magazines, and print publications, and has spent the last several years focused on personal finance topics including real estate. She is a contributing writer for HerMoney Media. Hunt holds an MLIS degree and believes in empowering homebuyers and sellers by connecting them with accessible, digestible, and authoritative information.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/meaghunt"],"url":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/author\/meaghan-hunt\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}