3 Ways to Sell Your House Fast in Orlando
Jun 4, 2025
The call comes in, and your dream job awaits in another state, but you must start in three weeks. Or your growing family has already found their perfect next home, but your current house still sits unsold. Maybe rising insurance costs have suddenly made your Orlando property unaffordable, prompting a quick decision. When you need to sell fast, each passing day can feel like watching opportunity slip away.
"In Orlando real estate, we have a lot of new inventory hitting the market compared to last year. We are exploding with new listings. However, contracts and closings are down right now," says Megan Hedrick, Director of Sales at Mark Spain Real Estate in Orlando. "We are still in a balanced market but teetering more towards a buyer market."
That means Orlando homes spend a median of 63 days on the market before selling. That’s more than two months of waiting and uncertainty. But what if you don't have that kind of time?
Selling your Orlando home quickly is possible, even in challenging market conditions. This article explores three proven strategies for selling your house fast: getting a cash offer, winning the pricing war, or winning the beauty contest.
Ready to sell your house fast? Get a strong cash offer today.
If speed and certainty are your biggest priorities, selling your home for cash before it hits the market might be your best option. Around 32.6% of Orlando sales are in cash, indicating a strong market for this approach.
Cash transactions typically close in 14-21 days compared to the 44-day average for financed deals. Cash works well if you're:
"Some sellers want to go to market to make top profit, but if the seller is also starting a new job and has to be out of the state in the next 20 days, then maybe the cash offer would work, especially if they have equity,” Hedrick explains.
A cash offer means a buyer purchases your home without mortgage financing, eliminating the lengthy approval process and contingencies.
Cash buyers are typically investors looking for properties to renovate, resell, or add to their rental portfolio. If you are not working with an expert like Mark Spain Real Estate to source your cash offers, you might face challenges where the investor is considering their return on investment, offering below a home's market value. The tradeoff for speed and certainty is often accepting a lower sale price.
With Mark Spain Real Estate’s Guaranteed Offer program, we’re working to eliminate that tradeoff by getting you multiple stronger cash offers from our network of pre-vetted buyers.
"Our Guaranteed Offer program works like this: Our agent is going to come to your house, and we're going to take a quick little video," Hedrick explains. "Then, I will upload it to our pre-market buyers, who are all of our cash buyers. In the next 5 to 7 days, I'm going to get a professional photographer—no cost to you, it's free—and I will return and present these offers to you."
The key difference with this approach is that you're not alone. Your agent is there to represent your best interests and meet your goals, whether accepting one of your cash offers or deciding to list your home on the market.
You haven't lost time if the cash offers don't meet your expectations. Your agent can immediately pivot to listing your home on the market.
If you want to fetch a higher price but need to sell quickly, strategic pricing becomes your most powerful tool. With increasing inventory in Orlando's current market, the right price can dramatically reduce your days on market.
Orlando homes typically receive offers within 27 days of listing. With the right pricing strategy, you can potentially cut that time in half.
"Pricing is so important. In fact, a lot of homes will not sell at all if they’re not priced correctly," Hedrick says. "It's about pulling the CMAs and just being honest with the seller. If it’s most important to sell quickly, I want to pull two local active listings and make sure that I am the cheapest active listing."
A Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) looks at:
Orlando's median home prices have dropped 5.6% to $429,950 over the past year, making accurate pricing even more critical. Pricing just below market value can create a sense of urgency among buyers.
Different Orlando neighborhoods have vastly different price points. Homes in popular neighborhoods like Winter Park command around $600,000 -$700,000, while emerging areas like Holden-Parramore offer homes around $300,000.
"What's happening right now is that there are so many homes on the market that if that price isn't going to grab someone's attention, they're not even going to walk through the house. So, you can't even generate an offer," Hedrick explains.
A local expert knows exactly where to price your home relative to the competition and understands the subtle differences between neighborhoods.
"In the Orlando market, if you can price it under the current active listings, you can negotiate up. You might even get a higher offer," Hedrick adds.
Strategic presentation can result in quick offers for desirable homes in good condition. This approach works best when the home already has good bones and appealing features.
Orlando buyers are increasingly prioritizing outdoor living spaces and updated kitchens in their home search.
Hedrick says buyers are especially interested in kitchens with quartz or granite countertops and farmhouse sinks. Additionally, outdoor spaces with pools or family gathering areas are also popular.
School districts also play a significant role in buyer decisions. "Dr. Phillips High School and Windermere Prep are really high-end, top-rated schools, and so a lot of people are like, 'Hey, I'm gonna move there, find a job, and make sure that my kids are enrolled in the school district,'" explains Hedrick.
First impressions matter enormously in real estate, even more so when trying to win the beauty contest. Professional photography is essential, but your home needs to look its absolute best before the photographer arrives.
At Mark Spain Real Estate, we usually don’t recommend major repairs or improvements to sellers since they rarely provide a return on investment. Instead, we focus on minor value-adding improvements and simple ways to present your home’s existing features in their best light. Hedrick advises depersonalizing your space by removing items like family photographs, travel mementos, and even most home decor.
Quick presentation tips:
These inexpensive improvements can dramatically reduce your home's time on the market by helping buyers envision themselves living in the space.
According to Hendrick, selling your home quickly in Orlando is all about maximum exposure with buyers. Social media sites like Facebook and Instagram are essential to market Orlando homes effectively. Professional photography shared across these platforms can generate immediate interest and showings.
Mark Spain Real Estate has established strong brand recognition throughout Orlando, creating unique advantages for sellers. This market presence means buyer agents often reach out about properties before they’re even listed. By utilizing "coming soon" listings through the local MLS system, our agents can build anticipation while properties are still in preparation, creating a pipeline of interested buyers ready to view and make offers the moment the home becomes available.
This comprehensive marketing approach creates excitement and urgency among potential buyers, sometimes resulting in same-day offers.
Each of these approaches offers different advantages depending on your specific situation, timeline, and property condition.
Consider a cash offer if:
Try strategic pricing if:
Focus on presentation if:
The beauty of working with a full-service brokerage that offers multiple selling paths is that you don't have to choose just one strategy from the start. You can explore cash offers while simultaneously preparing your home for a traditional listing.
"The coolest thing about Mark Spain Real Estate is that we can run both programs in tandem," Hedrick says. "If you were to call me and say, 'Hey, I really just want to sell on the market. I don't really want to entertain any of the cash offers.' Why can't we at least just source the cash offers just to see what we would get as far as the value of your home? If you don’t like the offers, in the meantime, while I’m sourcing these offers, I'm going to prep your home, we'll get professional photography. If you don’t want the cash offers, we'll just immediately get you on the market."
This approach gives you flexibility to make an informed decision based on actual offers rather than theoretical possibilities.
Ready to explore your options for selling your Orlando home quickly? Contact a local Mark Spain Real Estate agent today to discuss which strategy might work best for your specific situation.
Need to sell now? Get a strong cash offer on your home today.
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