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Selling Your Home

For most people, their home is probably the biggest investment they have made, and the greatest part of their overall wealth. Therefore, when thinking of selling your home, you want to be able to ask the highest possible price. You also need to find people that are willing to buy your home for the going price; for this it is important that you make a good impression.

With some simple adjustments to your home, you can successfully improve the chance of attracting buyers, and getting the right price for your home. Make the best possible impression of your home to prospective buyers; it can cost you if you don’t!

Blank Canvas = Limitless Possibilities!

The best tactic for selling your home at its best potential is to create a “blank canvas” for the prospective buyer. This allows them to picture their own things inside, and how they can make their own personal touches. This is a great first step in attracting offers for your home!

Here are some simple things that you can do to help this process:

• Think about Curb Appeal Curb appeal is where your house looks attractive from the road. This means the outside of your home, and the front garden. Keeping this area neat really helps in attracting a good first impression. While you are selling, make the effort to trim and tend your garden plants, and keep pathways neat and weed-free. Also remove any unsightly aspects of the front of your house. Remember – this is the first impression the prospective buyer has of your home, and first impressions count.
• Remove personal artifacts (pictures, etc) When a prospective buyer is looking around your home, you want them to imagine their family inside – not yours.  Removing the most personal items from view can help with this. Simply store them in a box inside a cupboard or in the attic until its time to move.
• Paint walls in neutral colour There is no better way to create a blank canvas, then clean neutral walls. Neutral colours help to lighten rooms, and also create a “blank canvas” in the minds of potential buyers, and will help them to picture what they would do with each room. If you walls are painted in bold colours, sometimes this can close the appearance of the size of the room. Also, whereas it may be to your taste, now you should be trying to sell to as large a target group as possible. It’s silly to think that something as basic as the colour of your walls can effect a decision to buy a house or not, but that is the case. Many people’s first impression is the strongest point they refer to when deciding to buy.
• Remove Clutter  We all collect clutter through the years, however this can have an adverse effect on the overall presentation of your home. To remedy this, simply collect all your items together, and store in the attic, or at a storage facility until the sale, or even until you move. As with the personal items, this change is only temporary, and can really help to give space to rooms, and create clean surfaces for the prospective buyer. Creating space also gives the prospective buyer the opportunity to envision their own furniture in each room.
• Change your Light-bulbs Make sure that all the light-bulbs in your lights are working. People often try the light switches when looking around a house, and you want your lights to look their best. Remember it’s the little things that help people to sum up whether a house has been looked after or not.
• Continuity   When you are getting your home ready for people to see, try to create a sense of continuity through all the rooms in your house. This can be with small touches (for instance, the same style in dressing beds through all bedrooms in the house, or having a cut flower placed by the bed or in the corner of the windowsill in each room).
• Create Feature Areas  If there is a cozy spot in the corner of your lounge, or a serene place to enjoy your garden, make sure that you make to aware to prospective buyers, with a couple of luxury items (for example, candles, throws, etc).

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