In this episode, Micky Limmer from Bayleys Canterbury joins the show to discuss how to get the most money possible when selling your properties.
Along with the standard tips about ensuring the property tidy and clean, and the gardens well maintained, Micky also adds a few extra tips:
- paint the front step. When potential buyers come to your property they first thing they will do is bend down to take off their shoes. Their first impression will literally be of your front doorstep, whether they realise it or not
- use Barkeeper's friend to make stainless steel basins and shower glass look like new
- replace the rubber at the bottom of your shower door, which can discolour over time.
Together, these small actions make a big difference.
You should also consider staging the property. For a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home this may only cost $2,000 (including gst).
And consider hiring a company to complete an external wash of your home, which may cost as little as $350.
Conducting other maintenance on your home, such as buying new carpet can make a difference. a 3 bedroom home may only cost $3.5-$4k to be recarpeted. However, buyers often overestimate these costs and will factor it in when they make an offer.
Younger buyers will also need these costs capitalised into the value of the property as they may not have the funds to complete these themselves.
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