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How to Appeal to Home Buyers
We're always fielding questions from sellers about the best way to present a home for sale. Over the years, we've tried many different strategies and crafted our own unique approach to optimizing your home for the market. As with any sales strategy, you want to present the best possible version of your home to someone in the market to make it their own.
Here are 7 of our favorite tips for getting home buyers to bite.
- A Welcoming Entryway
Many people are put off by walking right into a living room when they come through the front door. If your home isn't constructed with an official entryway, try to construct one with a creative placement of furniture. This gives a subtle mind-change from the outdoors to the indoors and does wonders for how the space feels upon entry.
- Lay Down Hardwood Floors
More and more buyers are looking for the longevity and clean air feel of hard wood floors. You can turn any kitchen, dining room, or bathroom into a whole new space with some easy-to-lay synthetic flooring.
- Improve the Fixtures
It's all in the details and some newly-replaced faucets or door knobs can bring a whole new life to a house for sale. These are often the quickest and cheapest way to improve your home value and presentation.
- Clean Countertops
Remodeled kitchens are all the rage but you don't have to replace all the cabinets and appliances to really make a kitchen sing. Sometimes all you need is a new countertop that shines. Keep it uncluttered and let the slab speak for itself.
- Closet Organizers
So much of appealing to home buyers is about allowing them to imagine themselves in the space. If you can bring some sanity and organization to a closet space, you'll help the buyer to imagine themselves in a cleaner, more organized home.
- Lighting is King
It's hard to imagine something more integral to the appeal of a new home than the lighting. Few people appreciate the impact lighting has on our assessment of a room and using artfully crafted lighting, rather than a blanket wash of white light from some overhead fixture, can bring depth and shape to an otherwise drab room. The best interior designers use lighting to sculpt a room. You can add tremendous energy to your home just by adding a few lamps and small lighting fixtures.
- Mind the Landscaping
In our rush to spruce up the inside of the house, thinking that's what people will live in, we home sellers sometimes forget to keep the lawn and landscaping manicured and beautiful. The outside of the home is a family's nameplate in the neighborhood. Make sure it speaks to pride and beauty in order to appeal to today's local home buyers.