{"id":70,"date":"2026-10-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:00:00","slug":"sellers-may-not-need-renovations-before-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/2026\/10\/01\/sellers-may-not-need-renovations-before-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sellers may not need renovations before listing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Costly pre-list renovations often do not yield enough return in price-sensitive markets where buyers take longer to decide. Sellers can keep dated but clean, functional features and focus on safety, insurance, and financing-related repairs. Basic cleaning, maintenance, and strategic pricing to reflect needed repairs are more cost-effective than expensive cosmetic upgrades, which may not increase sale price proportionally.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.floridarealtors.org\/news-media\/news-articles\/2026\/07\/sellers-may-not-need-renovations-listing\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costly pre-list renovations often do not yield enough return in price-sensitive markets where buyers take longer to decide. Sellers can keep dated but clean, functional features and focus on safety, insurance, and financing-related repairs. Basic cleaning, maintenance, and strategic pricing to reflect needed repairs are more cost-effective than expensive cosmetic upgrades, which may not increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate360.realtor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}