5 Tips to Help Your Home Sell Quickly

Selling your house is always somewhat of a gamble – it’s hard to judge which properties will sell  fast and which  won’t. There is always an element of the luck of the draw to it – but that doesn’t mean there aren’t things you can do to nudge your property into the ‘quick sell’ category rather than the ‘listed-for-months-with-no-bites’ category. So here, we’ve put together five top tups for what you can do to help your home sell quickly.

1. Use an up-to-date real estate agent

While there are many great real estate agencies out there, not all of them are making the most of the tools available to them. Before you commit to listing with any particular agent, you should discuss with them what tools they use and how keyed in they are to their market research. For example it’s a great idea to ask them if they’re familiar with the idea of data driven proce optimisation, a  new approach to house valuation which uses data from previous sales and market trends to price your property appropriately, ensuring the right buyers are attracted and significantly improving the speed of your sale. While there’s value in an estate agent that’s been doing this job for decades, you do want to make sure that they’re up to date with tech based developments like that so you know you’re getting attention to your property from every avenue.

2. Give the bathroom a lick of paint

A property can be forgiven a lot of mistakes, but the bathroom isn’t one of them. There is something quite specifically unpleasant about spying a mouldy wall or a dripping tap that really changes the impression of a whole property in a way that a few stains and mucky carpets elsewhere just don’t. However, don’t go redoing the whole room as you’ll likely spend more money on the renovations than you add to the price of the house – honestly, just giving the room  a spring clean and a decent lick of paint ought to do the trick. It will make it look clean and bright, and conceal all those signs of wear and tear by making the room light and airy. This is likely to make buyers keener on the property as they won’t be looking at all the flaws they have to fix – but instead, all the things they like.

3. Take good photos

It’s hard to overstate the importance of this element of selling a house. If you go on any property website and compare listings, note your own reaction when a property is shown with poor quality photos – it makes it impossible to accurately judge the property and simultaneously creates a negative impression of a seller who wasn’t professional enough to present the property nicely. If you’re in charge of taking the listing photos yourself, make sure you send them to a few friends before confirming them with your estate agent so you can be sure they’re good quality photos. If your realtor is in charge of taking the photos, absolutely do not be afraid to check over them before confirming and ask for them to be redone if you are not happy. You and your realtor are a team, but at the end of the day you are paying them for a service – make sure you get what you pay for!

4. Ensure the place is tidy

You would think this would be obvious, but it’s amazing how many viewings are conducted around messy houses – or rather, obviously lived in houses. The kind of tidy we’re looking for for a  viewing is not your normal level of tidy – it’s what you might expect from a TV show. Imagine you’re renting from a dodgy landlord, and you’re determined to leave the place absolutely sparkling to get every penny of your deposit back – that’s how clean we’re talking here. As much as people want to see a house with furniture in so they cam get a sense of the space, it’s still the case that they need to feel like they’re being shown a show home rather than somebody else’s house. It can make all the difference between an on-the-fence buyer and a buyer making an offer.

5. Replace the Old Kitchen Cabinets

This is one of those oddly specific tips that makes a surprising amount of difference. Once you’ve lived in a place for a long time, there are things you stop noticing, and one of them is how tired your kitchen cabinets look. If they’re just looking a bit dingy but are in perfect working order, a lick of paint could do the trick, but often once you start looking you’ll realise there’s a door hanging slightly off its hinges, and a chuck of wood gouged out on one of the doors. One of the easiest things you can do to make your house look more attractive is to put up some new kitchen cabinets; they don’t need to be upmarket options or anything like that, a few simple ready to assemble kitchen cabinets would do the trick. You can assemble them yourself, and it’s a totally affordable way to give the heart of your home a facelift.

Selling your home is always a bit of an arduous and unpredictable process – but if you follow these five tips, you’ll be well on the way to selling in no time.

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