Top Tips to Help Sell Your Home

Ah, the joys of selling your home.  Maybe there are some folks out there that enjoy selling their home and moving, but I personally find it to be a major pain in the butt!  Here are a couple of tips to help you sell your home for top dollar.  It can be extra work to get your home in prime condition, but the time cost is usually worth it if it’s a buyers market out there!

Top Tips to Help Sell Your Home – Painting

We’ve known for the past couple of months that we were going to be moving, so we’ve been busy getting it ready to sell.  The major thing that we needed to take care in our home was painting.  We had several room that simply needed some serious painting attention to attract top dollar.  I’ve completely had repaint the following to get things in tip-top shape:

• Dining Room
• Kitchen
• Morning Room
• Stairs hallway
• Guest Room

Talk about a major pain in the butt!  At least it’s all over with now 🙂

Top Tips to Help Sell Your Home – Curb Appeal

The second major thing that we’ve been working on over the past couple of months has been the curb appeal of our house.  This is majorly important as it really helps to sell your home.  People frequently form a first impression of a home in the first two or three minutes of “experiencing it.”  It’s said by many a Realtor that besides the kitchen, a good curb appeal is key to getting the most for your home.

As such, we’ve been busy weeding, hedge trimming, and the like.  We even paid $500 to have someone come out and completely mulch the entire front and rear mulch beds just so they would have a fresh batch!  I’m not sure if we’ll get a full return on our investment for shelling out that much, but it certainly does look much nicer.

Top Tips to Help Sell Your Home – Front Door

Along the same vein as the tip around curb appeal, our Realtor suggested that many folks find that painting their front door with a fresh coat of paint will do wonders for establishing a good first impression.  Well, I had just about enough of painting, so we decided to pass on this suggestion.  If you’re not as lazy as me, I’d recommend that you consider this tip 🙂

Top Tips to Help Sell Your Home – Housing Market?

Of course, much of these tips may be unnecessary if it is currently a sellers market in your area.  In my neck of the woods we aren’t quite so lucky.  The housing market is a little bit slow at this particular time of the year, so we’re having to put more work into getting our house nice so it will sell well.  If you are in a real seller’s market, that maybe you can skimp on these great tips.

For some crazy reason, our Zillow estimated housing price has dropped like $15K – $20K over the past two months.  What the hell!?!?!?  There is nothing we can do about that, but it is frustrating as all get-out!  I think we will be lucky to sell our house for what we paid for it about three years ago.  That sucks, but what are you going to do?

The housing market in your area may be better than ours – hopefully so if you are thinking about selling.  Things are crazy in some parts of the world such as London.  Some places in Greater London are up 14% in the past year!  If only we could be so lucky…  Check out this infographic to see what I’m talking about and good luck if you are in the process of selling your home:

London’s Housing Boom In 2014 Infographic – by Freehold Sale