4
ways to make your home more attractive to potential buyers
Selling a property is sometimes
easy. You put it up on the market, let the offers roll in and then chose the
best.
But other times, it can be hell. You put your
property on the market and no one wants to come and view it. They just aren’t
that interested.
So what can you do to improve your chances?
We’ve put together a brief guide on how you can
make your home more attractive to viewers and hopefully bring in those offers.
First
impressions count
If the front of the house is unattractive, it’s
going to be a battle to sell it.
Everyone and I mean everyone that visits the property is going to make a snap judgement
as soon as they pull up outside so don’t sell yourself short!
You need to spend time sprucing up the exterior. Do
the walls need a new lick of paint? Is the gate hanging off its hinges? Is the
garden over grown?
Don’t just stand there, fix it up!
Neutralise
Whether you’ve lived in the house for 1 year or 20
years you’ve probably made it your own stamp on the property. And that’s great!
But when you’re trying to sell it it’s going to make life harder.
When people come to view your property they want to
project their own personality onto
it, they don’t want to see yours.
So strip out that contemporary wall art, and cover
the room you painted pink in something a little more... middle-of-the-road.
Fix
everything
Imagine that you’re accompanying someone round your
property. They’ve shown a real interest and it looks like you might have a
buyer on your hands.
And then they try the shower – it doesn’t work. And
then a light – it doesn’t work. And then a tap – it doesn’t work.
They aren’t going to invest in a property that has
more problems than positives.
So before put it on the market make sure that you
fix everything. It’ll cost you but
it’ll be worth it in the long run!
And if there’s something that you can’t fix, don’t
ignore it. Hire a pro to come in and resolve it.
Show off its
best bits
The best way to advertise your property is by
placing an ad online. And to do this, you need to take some snap shots of your
home.
You should always show off the houses best
features.
Does it have a huge garden? Then take plenty of
pictures of that! Is the garage a little too small to be functional? Then avoid
taking snaps of that.
It sounds like such an obvious thing, but you’d be
surprised at the amount of people who don’t bother showing the property off at
its best!
