As Spring is fast approaching its now time to take care of the annual tasks, such as spring cleaning the house, tidying the garden, washing the windows.
Although this may seem like they are very selfish tasks, these are an essential part of your home selling toolkit. Think of it this way, when you go into a shop is it tidy or messy? You need to make your house look and feel like a show home and not just on the inside.
As Kerb appeal is the most important part of selling your house, as research shows that over 90% of people who are looking to buy a house will visit the house prior to making any viewing appointments at all. So make sure you get rid of the winter blues from your house and remove all the dead stuff in your garden. Making your house look as appealing as possible without needing to go in.
Just remember the viewing process as follows.
1. Kerb Appeal
2. Front of House
3. First Impressions (smells, sight and sounds on entering)
4. The grand tour
5. The specifics (Kitchen, Bathroom, back garden)
Just try to visualise the journey a potential buyer takes and make sure its a tidy one.
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Cold Weather Warning
With the continued cold weather we are experiencing at the moment, I thought I would give you some advice. So this tip is more about what you should be doing to aid your house and not necessarily the sale of it.
Please make sure that you do the following if you hope to sell you house in the coming months or year and dont want to have to pay out before hand, after all people want to buy a property that is in good working order not a broken run down one.
Things to do.
1. If you are going away make sure to leave your heating and boiler set to the mode for cold weather, if it does not have this mode set it to around 5 degress celcius, this will prevent pipes freezing and bursting.
2. Open your windows - This may sound like false economy but a build up of warm humid air in your home can lead to a variety or water realted problems, including mould, damp, rot and lots more. So when you wake up open your window for around 30 minutes to get rid of the warm air built up over night, and after a bath leave it about 20 mins then open a window DO NOT OPEN YOUR BATHROOM WINDOW IMMEDIATELY AFTER HAVING YOUR BATH OR SHOWER.
3. Use your heating - try to keep your house as warm as possible, with your heating on to avoid a problem occurring with damp and humidity realted problems.
4. Lag your pipes - this may not be the best time to do this but if you can remember to lag / insulate your pipes, insulate all pipes that are heating un used spaces, such as wall cavities. You dont need to lag pipes running in rooms. This tip will heating keep your boiler in full working order.
These are just a few tips to help keep your house saleable whilst the weather is bad and save you money in the longer term.
Please make sure that you do the following if you hope to sell you house in the coming months or year and dont want to have to pay out before hand, after all people want to buy a property that is in good working order not a broken run down one.
Things to do.
1. If you are going away make sure to leave your heating and boiler set to the mode for cold weather, if it does not have this mode set it to around 5 degress celcius, this will prevent pipes freezing and bursting.
2. Open your windows - This may sound like false economy but a build up of warm humid air in your home can lead to a variety or water realted problems, including mould, damp, rot and lots more. So when you wake up open your window for around 30 minutes to get rid of the warm air built up over night, and after a bath leave it about 20 mins then open a window DO NOT OPEN YOUR BATHROOM WINDOW IMMEDIATELY AFTER HAVING YOUR BATH OR SHOWER.
3. Use your heating - try to keep your house as warm as possible, with your heating on to avoid a problem occurring with damp and humidity realted problems.
4. Lag your pipes - this may not be the best time to do this but if you can remember to lag / insulate your pipes, insulate all pipes that are heating un used spaces, such as wall cavities. You dont need to lag pipes running in rooms. This tip will heating keep your boiler in full working order.
These are just a few tips to help keep your house saleable whilst the weather is bad and save you money in the longer term.
Monday, 28 December 2009
2010 - To Sell or Not To Sell
With all the recent activities in finance world. What will 2010 bring to your intended house sale?
The first piece of advice is caution, there are conflicting views that house prices will go up next year or go down next year. The main factor that is currently having an adverse effect on the property price index is the amount of houses that are for sale. This is simple supply and demand, less supply or more more demand means prices rise.
This is currently the case as there are less houses on the market, which in turn is pushing up the prices of the houses that are up for sale. So you may be thinking then why dont you sell your house now. Well you could do that and if you wish to take the punt then you could advertise your property at no cost on BuzzProperties.co.uk and see how you go.
However my advice is this rather than risk adding to the innaccurate market prices and in turn potentially lowering house prices, wait off selling your house until later in the year. Ideally after the end of the financial year, normally around mid April. This way you will not only get a better price for your property but you will also get a realistic one, and wont run the risk of being back in the same boat a year down the track due to inflated property prices.
So in short wait until April at the earliest to sell your house if you want to maximise your property return in both the long and the short term.
The first piece of advice is caution, there are conflicting views that house prices will go up next year or go down next year. The main factor that is currently having an adverse effect on the property price index is the amount of houses that are for sale. This is simple supply and demand, less supply or more more demand means prices rise.
This is currently the case as there are less houses on the market, which in turn is pushing up the prices of the houses that are up for sale. So you may be thinking then why dont you sell your house now. Well you could do that and if you wish to take the punt then you could advertise your property at no cost on BuzzProperties.co.uk and see how you go.
However my advice is this rather than risk adding to the innaccurate market prices and in turn potentially lowering house prices, wait off selling your house until later in the year. Ideally after the end of the financial year, normally around mid April. This way you will not only get a better price for your property but you will also get a realistic one, and wont run the risk of being back in the same boat a year down the track due to inflated property prices.
So in short wait until April at the earliest to sell your house if you want to maximise your property return in both the long and the short term.
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