Apartment For Sale? Tips to Sell Faster and For Best Value
Selling a self owned house and buying a house is something that happens generally once in the life time of a person. All the sellers want their property to sell in the least possible time and fetch them the best price, careful planning and perusing things professionally can help sellers to prepare their home for best price. Following are the points to be considered:
Increase the curb appeal of your house:
To Start with, examine your house from outside and ask yourself, is your house welcoming? Can you read your house number? Does your house need to paint? Are their overgrown bushes in your front yard? Have you never noticed your broken lighting fixture before?
Well it is quite understood that since you want to move out from your house, you don’t want to spend much in repairing. But, first impression is the last impression, so it is very important to make the entry porch of the house aesthetically appealing. Entry is the focal point of the house, clean up your front yard and drive way by removing bushes, thorny plants and overhanging branches. Decorate the entry with yellow color flower pots, yellow color brings positive energy around and evokes buying emotion. Repair or remove your mail box, light fixtures and door lock if they are in a bad condition or out of date. Paint your entry door or install a custom wood door.
Price your house right:
It is very important to do the reality check before pricing your house. Consult a real estate appraiser, with his experience he will evaluate your house in comparison to others, check how much income your property can fetch and the building cost of your property. This knowledge will help you in determining the rite market price for your house. Involve a real estate broker, since dealing with property is his job he have access to great deal of information about recent sales trend in your area and interested buyers. You can also logon to real-estate portals and do the comparison of similar properties within the same locality and having comparable amenities. This process will help you in determining the price for per-square foot and then you can do the realistic evolution of your property. Tagging your house for a price above realistic ceiling might do wonders for your ego but do not consider the buyer a fool, you will need to keep adjusting your price tag. While, the right price will help you to sell your property faster, get a genuine buyer and not much hustle and conflicts involved.
Market your property well:
List down all the special features of your property and make a very interesting add by targeting the people who will be seeking to these features. If you have a traffic free neighborhood, schools in proximity and parks for kids etc, you can use a phrase like “parents and children paradise”. If your house is in proximity with the commercial areas or IT sectors you may say “walk to work” or “best place to live for shopaholics”. It’s always helps to make an easy to understand direction plan to reach your house referring to the landmarks.
Spread the word regarding your willingness to sell your property among your neighbours, office friends and to the shoppers around. Get a small add published in your community classified because generally people have friends or relatives seeking to buy a property in the same locality. Try to use all the ways to maximize the exposure by listing your property for free on the real-estate portals for e.g. commonfloor.com and this will increase your reach to genuine buyer who is seeking to buy a property.
Prepare yourself well for the open house:
To get the deal fixed after the first open house only, it is very important to do the basic background study about the buyer and ask your real estate broker to keep the financial assistance handy for the buyer. Give the buyer exact directions for your house, so that it is easy for him to reach. Tell the security outside to direct the buyer to your apartment. Do not be dependent on the real estate broker; instead keep all the information handy, from how to get newspaper to the public transportation around. Help the buyer to understand the neighborhood and highlight all the positive of your property.
De-clutter and do minor repairs in your house:
It is very important to disassociate yourself from your house, tell that this house does not belong to you and now start scrutinizing each and every corner of your house. You might notice that you have collected an awesome amount of junk or things which are barbaric but holds the emotional value are occupying the space in your house. Rent storage and store these things there. This will space up your house to make it look bigger and tidy. Rearrange your wardrobe, kitchen cabinet, store rooms and make your house sparkle. Do the minor repairs if required for like broken flooring, cracked counter marble or jammed doors. Remove the burnt out bulbs and stopped clocks from your house.
