While you can’t control the speed of the solicitors, surveyors and mortgage paperwork, when you’re looking to sell your property, you can make sure that it is working hard to sell itself quickly, and for as much money as possible, especially if you own a more substantial home.
Why do I make this distinction – why should the size or value of a home matter? The simple fact is that the pricier your property the more buyers expect from it. They don’t want to do work; they simply want to easily imagine themselves living there –they want to see the place of their dreams. That’s why it’s so important to make the most of what you have when looking to sell.
So, here are a few tricks of the estate agency trade to help you prepare your property for sale:
1. Declutter
No matter how lovely your home might be, if it’s overfull with furniture and ornaments, ‘stuff’ you’re storing for friends or family, or all those things you always promised you’d get rid of but never did which now overflow in your spare rooms and garage, then it’s not showing in its best light. I’m not suggesting an empty home, but you want to present a complete not a cluttered one. I would even go so far as to suggest hiring a storage unit so you can have somewhere to keep safe all your excess belongings.
2. Staging
Who are your buyers? If they are likely to be very different from you, in age or lifestyle, you may even consider putting all your things in storage and calling in a staging company to dress your home in a way that will attract the right buyer to imagine themselves living there. It’s a tried and tested way of selling higher-priced properties more quickly.
3. Make it feel homely
Once you’ve given your property a more generic homely feel, it’s time to work on the other senses. Vases of flowers in each room not only enhances their appearance and smell but can give a greater feeling of freshness, colour and cleanliness.
4. Deep clean.
It’s also worth ensuring that every nook and cranny has had a good scrub and clean, as you never know what a potential buyer is going to notice or remember about your home, so it’s a good time to get a professional team in to make sure there are no greasy fingerprints, no cobwebs, strange smells or stains.
5. Sparkling windows.
Of course, this all assumes that you have managed to attract potential buyers in. A great way to increase the kerb appeal of your property and create the right impression while people are considering whether they’d like to make your home their own is to work on the cleanliness of your windows, sills and gutters – something many forget to do. This first impression counts. Most viewings take place during the day so that people can get a real feel for the place, so the more natural light and access to the views you can allow to flood in, the better. The windows are said to be the eyes of the home, so this is a great time to get them twinkling.
Of course, once you’ve done all of this to your property, your biggest problem might not be whether you attract the right buyers with the right money, but whether you actually now want to move now that your home looks so good!
If you would like a quote for window cleaning to make your home sparkle, call us today on 020 3954 2900. We’d be happy to help you sell your property.
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