Top 10 Tips for Selling Your Home in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

Selling your home is no easy task. It can often be laborious and time-consuming, with every seller wanting the same outcome; to sell their home in the quickest time and for the best possible price.

Here are our top ten tips if you are selling your home.

1. First Impressions Count

Improving the kerb appeal of your property will help encourage the instantaneous decisions potential buyers are making.
Ensuring your windows are in good condition, your garden is neat and tidy, and the front door is looking smart as this will give your viewers a good immediate impression. 

Highlighting the boundaries of your property can also reduce any uncomfortable questions. Adding or tidying any fences or hedges will not only make your property look appealing but enable the perimeter to be unmistakably clear. 

2. Market Your Property at the Correct Asking Price

With an overwhelming amount of information about the current property market circulating, pricing your home can be a daunting task. Use a spectrum of sources for reference, and it’s wise to have your property valued by three different estate agents. The average of these valuations is usually an excellent place to start when determining the asking price for your property.

3. Have Outstanding Marketing Materials

Potential buyers are discovering your property online, through property portals or directly from your estate agents’ website. Make sure your promotional photos show your home in its very best light. Keep decorations minimal and remove clutter from every room to give the illusion of bigger and brighter spaces.

4. Speculate to Accumulate

Varnishing wooden doors, replacing carpets, and fixing skirting boards can feel like a significant expense for a home you do not intend to live in for much longer. But these tasks should be viewed as an investment which will help add value to your home and make it stand out too.

5. Decorate and Neutralise

Although a full home redecoration is not necessary to sell your property, a relatively inexpensive way to aid selling is to give tired rooms a fresh paint job. While neutral colours may not be the most inspiring option, they provide a fresh blank canvas for your buyers.

6. Remove Pets from Your Home

Animal lovers may be side-tracked by your pet. Others may feel uncomfortable and rushed to leave. Further, some viewers may have allergies and feel completely put off. Removing animals from your home guarantees a fuss-free viewing and allows for all the focus to be on your property.

7. Be Impeccably Clean

Although it should go without saying, every corner of your home should be sparkling clean, particularly if you have pets and children. Genuine buyers will want to explore every nook and cranny, so ensure no stone is left unturned.

8. Keep Some Personality in Your Home

Your viewers are not expecting a show home. They want to see life, personality, and character. Showing your home, albeit a neater and tidier version, gives your viewer a chance to imagine themselves living there. 

9. Make Sure Your House Smells Good

Although this sounds obvious, it can often be overlooked when selling a home. Freshly wash bedsheets, clean out the bins, and open windows to let the breeze wind its way through every room.

Avoid smoking in the building for a few days before the viewing to avoid any smells lingering.

10. Think About What Buyers Actually Want

Great broadband speed in your area? Smart technology for your home heating? Fully automated home security system? These are all criteria 21st-century buyers are looking out for, so be sure to show them off!

The Satchells team are all highly experienced and will work hard to achieve the best price for your property. Get in touch at admin@satchells.co.uk