Make your home ready for sale before you put it up for sale

Your house is for sale, but there are no visitors? Then it is often recommended to lower your asking price. Shamelessly going to 25 000 or 50 000 euros off. Sin! You could stabbing better money in the presentation of your home before you put it up for sale. Because a house is beautifully presented, attracts more visitors and provide visitors eventually buyers.

Preparing for sale is cheaper than lower price

messy room — What you prefer? A living room full of rubbish ...

Sided living room — ... Or neatly tidy living room?

Sales operations Making your house, that is the principle of property styling. And that generally costs no more than 1% of your asking price. Much less so than the price reduction of 25,000 euros. A house selling prepared delivers better pictures, and so attracts more visitors. Furthermore, research shows that a home cooked is more beneficial for sales.

Clutter and collections distract

Sales operations Making Home start cleaning up. Because clutter, but also, for example (personal) sets lead buyers off.They look at the clutter and your collections instead of going to different rooms in your home. Finally you hear rather: "Wow what a beautiful floor" than "See what they all stand there! '. That clutter and collections sale will not. You take them to your new home.

Not cleaned = not maintained?

property Styling — A seat at the wrong place is not a good idea.

Living room with bay window visible — rather play the advantages of a space.

An tidy or messy presented house can raise questions with the buyer about the condition. If the owners do not consider important to clean them up for photo or viewing, they find the upkeep of their home or important? An uncleared house gives buyers really just arguments to haggle on the asking price.

Misclassification gives wrong impression

Sometimes it is necessary to put down the furniture otherwise. You present your house the best, as the layout is such that the benefits of the room or house are visible. So make sure you are not beautiful floor hidden under a carpet.A bright room also looks slightly by pulling open all the curtains. And that the arrangement of the furniture so that all edges are visible and not hidden behind a seat or cabinet.

Property Styling: what can you do yourself?

smart buyers

By among other things the internet is the home buyer in addition to well aware of the market today. He has a perfect view of all homes available for sale, at which broker (s) and how long they are already on sale. He can easily follow the evolution of the asking price. A house for sale is long, again gives buyers arguments (many) to offer less than the asking price.

Good presentation, no low bid

If you want to sell your house you have to make sure you present your house right away well. Invest in a real stylist and professional photographs. Then jump your home is more than the total supply in a positive way and gives the care and presentation no arguments to haggle. So is your house sold faster and delivers more. Author : Annelies van den Broek-Vermeulen - June 2012