If you are keen to move onto pastures new, the chances are that you will need to list your home and pocket the equity to plough into your next home. You might be moving for a number of reasons. Perhaps you need to move location because you have a new job, maybe you want to move closer to family, or maybe you have expanded your brood and you need a more spacious pad. Whatever the reason, you will want to sell your home quickly and for the maximum price possible.
You could follow the traditional route of choosing an estate agent, take some viewings and hope for some decent offers to roll in. However, to ensure that you can hit the ceiling price for your area, you will need to speculate to accumulate. Spending money to sell your home may sound counter-intuitive, but there is method in the madness. Selling faster means that you won’t be spending as many months with your house languishing on the market forking out for your mortgage repayments. If you want to sell quickly and for an exceptional price, follow this guide.
DECOR
While you’d like to think that potential buyers could see through the decor of your home and visualise putting their own stamp on a pad, they sometimes need a little help. If your home is heavily personalised with patterned flock wallpaper, a damson plum feature wall in the dining room, a bright orange kids bedroom and some achingly cool but unusual mid century carpet in your living room, you may need to consider neutralising your decor. People love nosing around people’s homes, but they won’t always want to live amongst the decor that they see.
Instead of holding onto your pad and waiting for a like minded individual fall in love with your home interior, you need to whip out the magnolia and white paint, get the rollers out, and lay some laminate or oatmeal hued carpet. While this may seem a little boring, it will be ridiculously cheap to do. This style of decor will also be more appealing to your potential buyers. While they may still want to put their own mark on the property and they will be keen to change up the colour scheme, this will be easier for them to visualise when they have a white wall to paint over rather than heavy wallpaper to strip.The price of your pad could increase and you will inevitably sell faster.
CLUTTER
If you have a small brood in tow, the chances are that you will have a ridiculous amount of stuff. To many this will be junk, but for you, it is your family’s history, memories and knick knacks. While you may adore being surrounded by these artefacts, the people viewing your pad will feel like your home is cluttered and lacking space. Having so much stuff in the rooms of your house means that people can feel claustrophobic when looking around.
If you have a bookcase full of ornaments and display cabinets, it’s time to get some stuff into storage or sell some items. If you haven’t used an item for twelve months, it’s time to get rid of it. You might choose to list it on eBay or donate it to a charity shop. Alternatively, if you really can’t face getting rid of certain personal objects, you can remove them from sight and put them in your loft space while viewings take place. Shifting this stuff means that more wall space will be seen and the square footage of your pad can be felt. There’s nothing worse for a buyer than walking around a home only to feel cramped.
If you have a dog, make sure that the smells that can accompany your hound are kept at bay. Hire a cleaning service Chicago to make sure your home is a clean as it possibly can be, and get some scent refreshers and bake bread when viewings take place. You need to try and seduce your buyers with a lifestyle. While it sounds superficial, the senses that you evoke through the smells, sights and sounds of your home can be emotive and make people part with their cash. Ask someone to take the dog for a walk when you are conducting viewings and keep your home tidy and as spacious as possible. Go for clever storage solutions like an ottoman footstool to keep the mutt’s toys at bay.
BEDROOMS
While the downstairs of your home may be spacious and modern, your bedrooms tend to be more personalised. Don’t revamp your kids rooms so that they don’t have any personality or look like drab box rooms. All buyers, especially young families, will appreciate the needs of kids to want their own space. However, it’s a great idea to have an exceptional master bedroom. You want to emulate a relaxing ambience and style that will help your potential buyers to visualise themselves resting their weary bones. Get a king size heavy duty divan base and choose a luxury headboard to exude quality and comfort. Have a relatively muted colour scheme such as white or cream and go for a feature wall, whether this is a contrasting colour like duck egg blue or chocolate, or maybe some complementary wallpaper.
When it comes to your bed, opt for a collection of duvet set that matches the colour scheme of your room, and think about textures. With cushions layered on one another and throws, you can emulate a hotel bedroom sort of feel.
OUTSIDE
To really maximise the price that you can achieve for your pad, you need to look outside as well as focusing on your interior. The exterior of your home can highlight a number of structural faults meaning that buyers may assume that your home will be costly to maintain. Check out your roof and ensure that any cracked or missing tiles are replaced. If there is any damp or rot coming into your interior from your tiles, you may need to get the entire roof replaced. Yes, this is costly, but don’t do it and your home may not sell, or you will lose out on achieving a good price.
Consider your windows and ensure that the glazing is top notch. Any draughts or condensation will be picked up by buyers straight away. Don’t allow people viewing your home to take money off of the price that they offer because of an ever growing list of jobs that they feel they will need to complete.
Dress the exterior of your home so that it has curb appeal. Install some shutters for your windows and add a splash of flora and fauna in your hanging baskets and window dressings. Mow your lawn and ensure that the gaps in your paving or driveway are free from weeds and moss. It may be boring, but you need to get outside and ensure that your garden is well coiffed and neat. Ensure that you whip out the power washer and clean your driveway. If your bins are on show, create a small shelter to hide them from view. Get yourself a new house number and paint your garage doors.
Your home is your castle, and while you may adore the pad that you have raised your family in, shared many happy times in, and enjoyed turning into a happy and healthy environment, your buyers will be looking at your home in a much more objective way. Follow this guide and you have every chance of getting the maximum price for your dwelling in the shortest time. You can get your home ready to sell.
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Thank you for the guide on how we maximize the price of our old house!
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