How to prepare your property for sale

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!