Thu 26 / 01 / 17
Cunningtons' guide to selling your home effectively
Cunningtons Solicitors are sponsoring our next Chamber social; wine tasting at Fourth & Church. Read their blog on how to sell your home effectively, including some useful key tips.
We've all seen the guides to making more money from selling your home - they are all over the papers, the TV, not to mention online. And everyone has something else they want to sell you while you're trying to sell your home - but we think that overspending on work that will cost more in time and money than you will recoup is pointless.
Cunningtons are a firm of solicitors offering conveyancing to the general public. We have helped thousands of people safely through the legal process of buying and selling property so we know a thing or two! We have had a good look at the guides out there, spoken to our own clients, and come up with a process that you can download for free here.
We read pieces by The Mail, Zoopla, Rightmove, HGTV, and HomeownersAlliance, including lists by Phil Spencer and Sarah Beany. They spoke a lot of sense, of course, but speaking to our clients who used a few extra methods to sell a 2-bedroom flat for way over the suggested value meant we could add more.
We split the process into:
- Tidy up, De-Clutter and Clean
- Managing Smells
- Light
- Photography
- Taking to Market
- Estate Agents and Solicitors
When you put your home on the market, you are selling a lifestyle, not just a building. Potential buyers should be able to see themselves living there and enjoying their new life!
So when buyers see your home, it should be clean and free of personal clutter - in the photos that come with the details, as well as in reality!
This also means that it should smell good: not just by using air fresheners, but also opening the windows before a viewing and banishing pets and children, if possible!
Light is also your friend, so a viewing of a clean bright home on a sunny day will be kinder than of a sombre, cluttered property on a dark evening.
Photography is vital, and if possible should not be left to an agent racing round to fit it all in in under an hour. If the road outside makes it difficult to get a good shot because of all the parked cars, wait until it's clearer before taking that vital shot!
There are more ways of putting your home on the market these days, and we cover the pros and cons of online and offline property sales, as well as one or two nifty tricks that will increase selling price.
And, of course, we lift the lid on conveyancing! What you should expect for your money and why it is dangerous to cut corners. And why dealing personally with a local solicitor pays dividends and keeps your most valuable asset safe.
We hope our guide helps steer you through this important time, and if you are selling or buying your home, please contact us at Cunningtons Solicitors for professional, personal advice.
Thank you to Cunningtons Solicitors for providing this blog. For more information and to get in contact visit www.Cunningtons.co.uk or call 01273 725229.
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