Are you planning to sell your home this spring? As a homeowner, this can seem daunting. We have collaborated with Redfin to give you some helpful tips to prepare for the sell of your home. The goal is to sell quickly and receive full asking price, so below are tips on how you can prepare for the sell of your home.
1. Make Repairs and Small Upgrades to Your House
After you receive a comprehensive list of repairs you should make, it’s time to get started either making the repairs yourself or contracting the right person to do them. This may also be a great time to make small upgrades to your home.
Understand Your Home’s Selling Points
First, try understanding your home’s selling points and then highlight those features to make them really stand out. Not sure what those features are? Just think about what sold you on your home when you first toured it. Was it the kitchen, the open floor plan, or that personal studio space? These are the features you’ll want to concentrate on because they are most likely to sell your house again.
Before and after pics of home upgrades using Compass Concierge.
Enhance Your Outdoor Space
When you are selling your house, you want to find ways to make it stand out and what better way than having the most beautiful entrance and lawn on the block. You don’t necessarily have to paint the exterior of your house to impress homebuyers. Simple things like trimming your hedges and a freshly mowed lawn will go a long way. Even freshly laid beauty bark and newly planted flowers can really make your yard pop! If these improvements seem like too much to handle while you’re trying to prepare your home to sell, look into hiring a landscaper to assist.
Brighten Your Home
Simple ways to brighten your home include painting your ceilings white and choosing a wall color that is brighter and more neutral.
2. Declutter and Prep Your House to Sell
Decluttering and prepping your house are steps you should make a priority. Renting storage units is becoming an increasingly popular method of decluttering one’s house before selling it. The idea is to limit the amount of stuff in your house so that potential future owners can envision themselves (and their stuff) in that space. Even removing photos is a great way to allow potential buyers to think about what they would hang on those walls. If you’re looking for a quick turnaround, bring in a professional organizer. They can help get your house in order, while also preparing you for a stress-free move.
3. Get Professional Photos Taken of Your Home
Nothing sells a house faster than professional photos. Put yourself in the buyer’s shoes. They are searching online, looking at every home that comes up for sale within their filtered interests the moment it’s listed. If your house is represented online by poorly shot photography, your listing will see very little traffic. Not to mention, it’s widely observed that houses with professionally shot photos, on average, sell for more money than other listings.
Left: iphone photo Right: professional real estate photography
Furthermore, 3D walking tours along with aerial photography that show a bird’s eye view of one’s home and its surrounding area have become increasingly popular with buyers looking online. Many agencies include some or all of these services as a component of their overall services to you as a seller. Just remember, the better you represent your house online, the faster it will sell.
When it comes to selling your home there is a long list of tasks but these are tips you can definitely use! These three tips will help you reduce the time on the market and increase appeal. Are you interested in more tips? See the full report here: Original post from Redfin