Posts Tagged → Selling Your Home
January 4th, 2010
How to Stage a Home Properly
One of the most daunting aspects of selling your home yourself is the staging of the home itself. It is possible to hire professional stagers that are trained to showcase the strong points of your home, but with a little time and effort you can stage your home yourself. The first thing to understand about staging a home is that you must attempt to disconnect yourself from the home on an emotional level. This is easier said than done, but it is necessary.
A good idea is to start with the most visual aspect of your home. The exterior. We will go into greater deatail about the interior in a moment. Cleaning up the facade of your home is an absolute must. ensure that lawns are mown and trimmed. Clear away any rough edges along the walkways and driveway. Also weed the gardens and plant some new flowers. Make the entrance to your home as welcoming as possible. After all, this is the first thing a prospective buyer will see when they look at your home. You want their first impression to be memorable…in a good way.
Now we move to the interior. The first thing you want to do is remove the clutter! Homes always have some sort of clutter that is best removed to showcase the home. This means you will have to spend some time going over what you need and don’t need. Remember that a minimalist approach is a good idea. It can be difficult for buyers to envision their possessions in another home, try it yourself sometime at a friends home. Look around and think about what you would move or change. Now do this at your own home. Time to get rid of a few things? This must be done for every room, clean out all the closets and cupboards too. Buyers are nosey, and justifiably so. Like you did before they are investing in their future and they will go through closets and such to make sure there is sufficient room for their things.
Now to ensure that viewers have a great experience when in your home there are a few things that you can do. Lighting can set a great mood in a home. Be sure to have appropriate lighting for the time of day. Temperature is another good thing to remember. Viewers are less likely to explore a cold home. Set the temperature for a pleasant medium. If there is a fireplace, light it. This will add to the ambiance and showcase one of the most popular assets of a home. The whole point of staging is to make guests feel welcome and at home. Try leaving out some refreshments or snacks if you are so inclined. It is up to you how far you will go in staging your home, but the more effort you put in the better your home will show.
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December 25th, 2009
Real Estate Werribee Tip for the Area
Tips for selling your home in Werribee Real Estate Werribee
Robert, director of Benlor ( www.benlor.com.au ) says “You don’t get a second chance to make a good impression. Most buyers look for homes that are well cared for and clean”. The following are some tips on how to help the agent sell your home:
• Whenever possible, the home should be vacant during the inspection. When owners are present it can keep buyers from feeling at ease. And keep the pets outside – you may love them but buyers may not.
• Turn on all lights during the inspection when the weather is dull or overcast.
• Draw back the curtains and blinds to “brighten” your home.
• Strong cooking or smoking odours can ruin the sale. Make sure your home is fresh for showing. Baking pies or cakes never hurts.
• Have the television set off and play mood music on the stereo.
• And most importantly, unless requested, please don’t offer assistance – your agents know their buyers and you could adversely affect the sale by being “too helpful” in discussion with buyers.
Benlor also has its very own rental department. The team can assist in finding you a home or to manage your own property. As with everything else at Benlor, the team makes home rentals easy and hassle free.
For more infromation please contact: Real Estate in werribee | hoppers crossing
Benlor Realesate
9748 6300
257 Heaths Road, Werribee
www.benlor.com.au
Robert, director of Benlor ( www.benlor.com.au ) says “You don’t get a second chance to make a good impression. Most buyers look for homes that are well cared for and clean”. The following are some tips on how to help the agent sell your home:
• Whenever possible, the home should be vacant during the inspection. When owners are present it can keep buyers from feeling at ease. And keep the pets outside – you may love them but buyers may not.
• Turn on all lights during the inspection when the weather is dull or overcast.
• Draw back the curtains and blinds to “brighten” your home.
• Strong cooking or smoking odours can ruin the sale. Make sure your home is fresh for showing. Baking pies or cakes never hurts.
• Have the television set off and play mood music on the stereo.
• And most importantly, unless requested, please don’t offer assistance – your agents know their buyers and you could adversely affect the sale by being “too helpful” in discussion with buyers.
Benlor also has its very own rental department. The team can assist in finding you a home or to manage your own property. As with everything else at Benlor, the team makes home rentals easy and hassle free.
For more infromation please contact: Real Estate in werribee | hoppers crossing
Benlor Realesate
9748 6300
257 Heaths Road, Werribee
www.benlor.com.au
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September 30th, 2009
Should You Negotiate A Real Estate Agent's Commission?
If you visit home sellers forums on line, or read home selling tips books or blogs, one thing you’ll read in several places is that the listing real estate agent’s fees are always negotiable. What they are saying is that you do not have t simply accept the fee the listing agent quotes to you to start with. This is, usually, a true statement. There is no law that sets the commissions real estate agents charges for their services.
There are even discount rate real estate agents and companies that charge a substantially lower fee than other agents as a matter of course. Some of these discount real estate companies will even charge just a simple flat rate fee.
The sole purpose for hiring a real estate agent is to take advantage of their professional approach to selling your home. The agent has specialized knowledge of home sales, the local market, advertising and marketing campaigns, and other home selling skills. By contracting the agent you gain the advantage of these skills to sell our homes. The reason people want the agent selling their home is that they recognize that the agents have access to resources they do not have access to. They have a greater chance of putting a buyer together with the home and getting that buyers signature on the real estate forms that will sell the home. A faster sale, hopefully at a higher price offer, means more money in the seller’s pocket and fewer expenses getting there. Often the mortgage payments a homeowner will not have to
pay alone will make up for the agents commission. There is no other reason to hire an agent.
When you consider it this way it doesn’t actually make a lot of sense to use a discount agent or broker to sell your house. It also doesn’t seem as attractive to try to negotiate the commission with the real estate agent. If you get the agent to accept a 50% reduction in their fees, they know that at best, selling your home will earn them half of what selling another home in the same price range would earn them. If you knew that you could do the same amount of work and receive twice the compensation from one source as you would from another source, which would you invest your time and money in? The real estate agent’s answer to that question is the same as yours. Why would they push your home when, for the same amount of time and effort, they could push another comparable home and earn twice as much income.
Given this scenario, which home do you think is likely to have a new owner filling out the real estate forms and going to closing first? Think twice before negotiating on the agents fees, what little you save there may cost you a lot more before the home is sold.
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