A sage-green starter cape that proves the junior-listing treatment is a choice other agents make. Sold in 12 days for $32,000 over list.
The house
Thirteen hundred square feet, one bath, and absolutely nothing to apologize for: new window boxes, refinished floors, a yard sized for a first dog. Small houses deserve the same photography, the same pricing work, and the same weekend plan as the big ones.
- Listed at $499,000, sold at $531,000
- 12 days on market, 4 offers
- First-time buyers won it with a clean contract
- Full photo set and the marketing small listings rarely get
On the block
Willow Drive is a five-minute drive to the Lindenhurst station and a two-minute walk to the elementary school, which is why entry-level capes here never sit when they are priced to the block instead of to a hope.
How it sold
The sellers were told by another agent to wait for spring. We listed in February, when their house was one of four capes on the market instead of one of forty. Twelve days later it was done. Timing is pricing.