5 Tips to Ensure Your Home Viewing Is a Success

Buy Sell Rent SG // October 23 // 0 Comments

To sell your property at the highest price, you need to ensure your home viewing is a success. The purpose of viewing your home is to hook a buyer. You want the buyers to come through your house and be impressed – so impressed that they’re ready to make an offer! You’ll have one chance to make a great first impression on potential buyers, so follow these five helpful tips to make it count!

Focus on the outside of your home viewing

Make sure that you don’t neglect the outside of your home. If you are selling a landed house, curb appeal can make or break the odds of someone even bothering to get out of the car to come in. If they pull up and see a home with a lawn that needs edging and an unkempt flower bed, they will wonder what else hasn’t been cared for properly. You want the outside of your home to be spotless. Clean the siding, the windows, and the doors. Make sure there are no dirt smudges, no cobwebs, and anything that needs painting has been spiffed up.

Take yourself out of the house

That means that you want to take out all the personal stuff. Remove the family photos from the wall or tables. You want the home viewing to look neutral so potential buyers can look at your house and picture it as themselves living there. Everything should be as neutral as possible in terms of personal items.

Remove all the extra clutter you see at first glance

If you look around, it’ll amaze you how much stuff you’ve accumulated over the years. Some might be important, but that doesn’t mean your potential buyers should see them during home viewing. When you have a lot of clutter, it shrinks the house’s living space. It makes it look and feel cramped and smaller. Many homeowners get something called house blindness. They’ve lived in the home for so long with the same clutter that they don’t even see it anymore. But a stranger will always notice. So clean out your house and make the space as big as possible.

If you have a pet, no one that walks through your house should be able to notice it exists

That means no cat litter box, no dog to jump on, and no food sitting around in a dish. Your home viewing should not have any pet odors. Having a clean house that’s odor free is a big selling point. You don’t want to lose a possible deal just because they can smell your pet’s presence or your pet makes a bad impression.

Stage your home! 

You can hire a professional, or you can do it yourself. Stage your living areas in a way that shows off your home. You can rent furniture to make your home furnishings look good if you don’t use a stager. Someone who knows how to stage a house knows how to play up your home’s best features and what to bring in or get rid of to make the entire house appeal to a buyer.

First impressions is vital during a home viewing. Still, by following the simple tips above, you will be well on your way to making a great impression and, hopefully, receiving multiple offers! 

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