Preparing Your Home For A Sale

Preparing your home for sale can be an enormous job. I’ve always given this advice first: If you plan on selling your home within the next year than START PACKING NOW. The best step up you can give yourself is to remove everything from your home that you don’t need. A storage unit can help a ton with this and it will also give you a leg up and donating etc. With your excess out of the way preparing your home for sale will be A LOT easier to do!

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If you’re keen to sell your property in the near future or know that the time to move will soon arrive, it’s never too early to prepare for this moment. However, only a comprehensive strategy can deliver the results you crave. 

Focus on the points below, and you will not go far wrong.

Value-Adding Upgrades

When selling a home, it’s imperative that you gain the biggest sale price. A little restoration and improvement can add a lot of value to the home. Therefore, speaking to an expert about the best house renovation jobs to make your asset work harder is essential. Whether it’s converting the attic, building an extension, or transforming the floor plan doesn’t matter. As long as the works will enable you to command a higher sale price, the effort will be worthwhile. 

Just be sure to remember that ROIs are all that matter at this time. 

Get a Professional Plumber

It’s always a good idea to have a professional plumber inspect your home before you put it on the market. This will help ensure that any potential buyers are aware of any necessary repairs or updates that need to be made to the property. Additionally, having an Emergency Plumber inspection done can also provide you with some valuable insights into the condition of your home’s plumbing system. This information can also be helpful when negotiating the selling price of your home.

Universally Appealing Designs

Stamping your personality on a property is a crucial part of making a house a home. When trying to sell, though, you need to realise that your tastes might not appeal to everyone. So, it’s better to play it safe with gender-neutral bedroom designs and neutral lounge colour schemes. It might be a little boring, but this will ensure that far fewer viewers are turned off by the interior design. In turn, this should accelerate your sale transaction.

Besides, increased interest may lead to bidding wars.

Energy-Efficiency Upgrades

Modern homebuyers will analyze the home running costs. The energy rating is one of the first things that they’ll look at when conducting a survey. Incorporating increased insulation into the home renovation is always a wise idea.

Your windows are going to be a key area that buyers will inspect when visiting. If you haven’t upgraded them in a while then it is probably best to organize some replacement windows before you even put your home on sale, as this could have a negative effect on the final house price and what buyers are willing to spend. If they have to factor in renovation costs too then the final asking price will be lower than anticipated.

However, additions like instant boiling taps, the best solar panels, and water-saving toilets are ideal too. A healthy boiler and climate control system should offer more reasons for viewers to feel positive about the property. Not least because it reduces their workload.

Besides, you’ll appreciate the reduced utility costs in the meantime.

Adding Curb Appeal

A homebuyer’s feelings towards a property start before they step inside. Whether looking at online listing or visiting in-person, the exterior can set a positive or negative tone. Naturally, you’ll want it to be the latter. Painting the brickwork is a great starting point, while guttering services are another essential step. Further upgrades may include treating the driveway, changing the plant life, or adding a new mailbox. The addition of a porch may be possible too.

When the property is more welcoming, prospective buyers will see it as a potential home.

Fault Fixing

Making the right additions will certainly help maximize the potential sale price. However, this will only happen if the faults around the home are fixed. Once upon a time, you could have got away with covering them. Nowadays, homeowners know what to look for thanks to the research they can do online. Creating storage spaces, fixing electrical outlets, removing asbestos from your home and treating damp will all have a positive impact. Better still, it’ll help you gain the right mindset when you look at properties to buy.

A little effort goes a long way to helping your property stand out from the crowd. Do it.

(This is a contributed post, for more information about my compensation please read my disclosure policy)