5 Tech Tools You Need to Sell Your House Fast

Once upon a time, selling your home meant stacks of paperwork, endless in-person meetings, and some secretly crossed fingers behind your back, hoping it all worked. 📄

Fast-forward to today, and we’re trading those paper stacks for apps, those Apple Pencils, and in-person meetings. They’ve all gone virtual.

Real estate has undergone a tech transformation, revolutionizing real estate and making selling your home faster.

AI-assisted pricing, augmented reality furnishings, and technology aren’t just making the selling process easier— with the right tools (but usually, the right house buyer), you can make home selling a whole lot easier.

While tech makes it easier to sell a home, home sellers still need to abide by all the real estate technicalities: navigating working with a realtor, negotiating pricing, and waiting for that perfect offer to come in.

Consider these tech tools the perfect pairing to working with House Buyers of America, where we’re ready to offer you cash for your home so you can have an easy home sale process throughout your entire journey. Let’s get into it!

1. Virtual Home Staging Software

Picture this: Your empty living room, barren den, and wide open kitchen magically transformed into a chic interior with modern furniture, lush rugs, and those trendy wall hangings you see all over Instagram— all without your spending a dime.

No, it’s not a fantasy— it’s virtual home staging, and it helps anyone transform plain spaces into decorated masterpieces, giving potential buyers a glimpse of what your home’s interior might look like without the huge time and monetary expense of furnishing, staging, and open houses.

Because let’s be real: hiring staging companies or buying furniture just for showings can be… well, painfully pricey, and strenuously time-consuming. 
What does “sell my home” mean to you? Showings, contracts, paperwork?

Either way, with virtual staging, not only do you save some serious cash, but your home also stands out in the crowded online market, pulling in more sofa surfers by looking that much better than the rest of the homes.

Virtual home staging apps:

• Rooomy: Offering customizable designs, Rooomy lets your home put on its best digital decor, with prices ranging from $49-$1,754.
• HomeDesigns.ai: The future is AI, and with it, watch as every room is optimized for allure. This app has more than 40 design styles so you can customize your interior the way you (and your buyers) will like it.

2. 3D Virtual Tours and Drones

3D tours and drones turn humble little home listings into cinematic masterpieces.

Drones mainly feature the outside of the home and its surrounding area, giving buyers a bird’s eye view of what it’s like beyond the walls and windows, while 3D tours invite buyers inside for a detailed look, capturing each and every inch room by room.

And since digital-first is the mantra of today’s buyers, 3D tours and drones specifically ensure you’re not just showing your property, but delivering a truly immersive, engaging, and all-encompassing experience for potential buyers.

Related: DIY Home Staging: Tips and Tricks to Sell Your House Fast

3D Virtual tours and drones:

• Matterport: This dynamic 3D capture virtual tour can help walk through any space, with 95% of people more likely to call about properties with 3D virtual tours and 74% of agents using Matterport winning more listings.
• DJI Drones: These high-flyers capture gorgeous aerial perspectives, showcasing your property and its surrounding locale so buyers can get the full picture.
• Zillow 3D Home: This tool right inside the Zillow app has your own 3D home dashboard with the ability to add arrows, move panoramas, and more.

3. AI-Powered Pricing Tools

Pricing homes shouldn’t be a guessing game, but it can sure feel that way, right?

Whether we like it or not, AI has stepped in and is now in charge of sifting through mountains of data like property history, current market trends, and neighborhood comparatives to whisper the sweet spot price in your ear.

After all, an overpriced home can certainly become the neighborhood wallflower, oftentimes ignored. And an underpriced one? Money left on the table.

That’s where AI comes in, setting you up for a faster and more profitable sale without having to exhaust your brain to pick the perfect price by doing the predicting, analytics, and data-gathering for you.

AI-Powered pricing tools:

• HouseCanary: This is more than just predictions. House Canary provides comprehensive analytics and valuation to help people buy, sell, and finance a home.
• PriceHubble: This AI tool has global data insights for real estate agents, banks, investors, and more.

4. Digital Signature Platforms

Gone are the days of printing, signing, scanning, and emailing documents back-and-forth– and no, it’s not switching to a fax machine. There’s a much easier, more seamless way to go about it.

Digital signature platforms might seem less exciting than cool 3D staging or drones, but they make those tedious back-and-forths with signatures disappear. Now, you can e-sign documents in literally a few clicks, on your computer or your phone.

Think less paperwork, quicker deals, and even a bit of a more eco-friendly approach. Now, there’s no need to dash across the house for a pen and paper and drive across town to drop it off; digital signatures, zapping your signature across streets or state lines with ease.

Digital signature platforms:

• DocuSign: Speed, security, and simplicity so you can sign remotely, send documents securely, and integrate with Google Docs and other apps.
• HelloSign: This spin-off app from Dropbox makes signing super easy, especially if Dropbox is already in your workflow.
• Adobe Sign: If you already have the Adobe Suite, why not keep it all in one place?

5. Facebook + Facebook Groups

You’d be surprised who’s hanging around Facebook these days– and not just scrolling through the home feed looking at what their friends are up to.

Facebook groups are an amazing way to share your listings beyond the boundaries of direct friend groups– particularly to niche communities where your listing might be the perfect match.

Think local communities, house flippers, and even people who are looking to move to an area like yours– perhaps digital nomads looking for a country home, or more city-folk who are gazing at a more city scene.

Using a unique Facebook group strategy, and making sure your personal profile is optimized enough for people to know who you are, you can build relationships, network with others, and can put your home for sale in a more public view.

Who knows– there might be someone in there– or someone who knows a friend or a friend– who would fit the bill of the perfect buyer.

Related: Benefits of Selling Your Home As-Is

Tech Today, Sold Tomorrow

We’re living in the Digital Renaissance, where almost every facet of our lives is intertwined with technology—and the realm of real estate is definitely no exception!

Staging homes virtually, signing documents with a digital touch, and using drones to showcase the beautiful surroundings of a home’s space, technology is already immersed in your lifestyle, so why not embrace it when selling your home?

But there’s something else that can help you even more with the newest, cutting-edge tech tools— a good partnership that’ll make the home selling process even easier.

After all, with even the coolest-looking platforms, selling your home still takes lots of time and money, even with tech helping you along the way.

Here at House Buyers of America, we’re helping you take your home selling process by storm, encouraging you to utilize the latest technologies to ensure that selling your home isn’t just easy, but actually enjoyable (who knew?!).

So for all you sellers out there who want to skip all those tech stacks and bundles of passwords and logins and just get to the grand finale, we’re here for you.

Picture this: a smooth selling process, whether you like tech or want to take a big break from it.

The House Buyers of America Process

Here’s the quick, simple and easy process:

Step 1: Request your offer. Reach out to us anytime, for a quick and competitive offer over the phone in less than 10 minutes. If you prefer, you can also submit your details through our online form, comfortably from home.

Step 2: We’ll schedule a quick tour of your home. Our fool-proof method helps us get all the details we need from doing a walkthrough of your house so we can set a closing date that’s on your timeline. That’s right– you can sell your house in 7 days or less if you really need it!

Don’t worry, this isn’t an open house— we purchase homes in their existing state, so you can sell your house as-is with no need to clean up (even if it’s a total mess). We’ll talk about the specifics, and make sure your home selling experience is quick and simple.

Step 3: Close (on your terms!). One of our committed Settlement Coordinators will be by your side the whole time, ensuring every detail of your home closing is managed efficiently. Our goal is to close the deal so you can get your payment as fast as possible and collect your cash as soon as possible.

Ditch the hours of tech for a change and make your home-selling journey fast and on your timeline so that when you say “buy my house,” someone is actually listening.

 What are you waiting for? We buy houses for cash and want to make your journey fast and simple, so call 855-659-3289 or fill out our online form to start your selling journey!

You say “Sell my house,” and we’re listening!