We sell an apartment: How to increase the price just before sale?

The wish to increase at the last minute of the sale price of the apartment is so versatile and common to all sellers that it is targeting a wide range of services and products that are guaranteed to help.Sitting them on adhesive can come pretty expensive.

The price of the apartment wants to raise all sellers, especially those who have surprised the low estimate of the market price or those who have been unsuccessful for several months on real estate sites, but no one showed interest in it.

There are enough sellers who at that moment are allowed to crazy time and financial investments in services and modifications that do not eventually have the expected result - the selling price of their property will increase little.

At the same time, simple merchant numbers are enough: will the sale price increase so much that the money and time invested will return?If not, all the efforts were unnecessary.

Real estate inspection

The exemplary seller in the West consider it standard to let the technical inspection be carried out to reveal in detail the true technical condition of the property just before sale and help to determine the market price.In our country, such a service is used primarily by buyers - be prepared that one of the candidates can send the inspector to your apartment.

Vladimir Zuzak

Reconstruction is not worth

The spectrum of what you can do with your apartment before sale is offered from the most expensive overall reconstruction through partial investments, necessary repairs to Home Staging (more lower) and cleaning.It is important to choose the right level.

I do not recommend reconstruction.If you do not have good known, reliable construction companies or tips for very handy designers, your investment will be greater than the resulting effect.In most cases, you can increase the price at least as much as the reconstruction cost.

Much better decision is to leave an old apartment in a state of "before reconstruction", adjust your expectations in terms of earnings and sell the property thanks to the advantageous price quickly.You save time and money.Do not forget that the most influence on the price of real estate has location, transport accessibility and civic amenities.

This advice is also based on the long -term, good knowledge of the mentality of buyers who will rather leave with the feeling that they have saved something for the apartment and will reconstruct according to their wishes than to pay for being new, but a little differentbefore they would match their taste.

Real estate series for money.cz

In the series we buy an apartment we advise how to get to know and buy quality property, how to achieve discounts, how to buy as safely as possible or how to negotiate with a bank about a mortgage.

We also write a special investment apartment - because buying for yourself and buying for money is the difference.

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The necessary repairs make sense

Preparing an apartment for sale should therefore be aesthetic than a functional character.You will focus on what impression it will make an apartment on the buyer.Start by clearing any unnecessary furniture or accessories that you have accumulated over time and which creates a feeling of overcrowded room.

In particular, they are bikes and other strengthening machines, but also piles of newspapers and books.Also take too old or ugly furniture that the first impression could spoil.If at least a little possible, it pays off all the rooms painted on white.It gives it a feeling of pure and bright apartment.

Once you have left in the apartment only functional furniture that creates a pleasant impression, remove and hide all the smaller elements that would give the buyer too personal and homely impression, would create a feeling of foreign home.You need the buyer to start feeling like in his.

Remove posters and stickers from walls and doors, hide family photos, wipe traces of pets.And now take a stroll around the apartment as a potential buyer.It is only possible to discover minor defects such as broken tiles, scratched doors, carpet stains.Over the years you have become accustomed to them.

If the investment is not too high, it is worth repairing or cleaning these small, surface defects in addition to painting.They may unnecessarily spoil the impression of an apartment that is otherwise in good shape.And you must not allow the buyer to feel that the apartment is in poor condition.In more luxurious brick flats (for example in the wider center of Prague) it pays to register and paint parquet.

When you sell a house

The sale of a family house is in many ways more demanding than the sale of an apartment and it is also harder to make a good first impression.You are in charge of not only the interior, but also the exterior - it depends on the condition of the roof, but also the surrounding land.A good impression will make, for example, a nice landscaped garden.

The partner of the series is Maxima, a Prague real estate agency with a tradition of responsible and ethical approach to clients.It offers a wide background for the sale and rental of real estate: presentation and advertising, legal services and financing is provided by a professional team.

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How to prepare a property for a photo shoot

Remember that the first impression will not make your property, but the photo to which it will be captured - the most important thing is to prepare just before taking pictures.You can try to manage it yourself or contact companies that make the so -called home staging - preparing real estate for sale and thus to shoot.

What methods to increase the price are available here?It is essential that the photos look tempting, ideally like a hotel.The first important step is thus a thorough cleaning, for example, a polished battery and tiles in the bathroom and kitchen, washed windows or cleaned joints.

In the placement of furniture and arrangement of home accessories it is possible to be inspired by Home Stagers.Always place the furniture to look like spacious and bright.To create a pleasant atmosphere you can use candles, clean towels, blankets and bedspreads, tablecloths or flowers.

Good light, properly chosen daily (even annual) time or experienced eye of the photographer, quality lens and computer programs for photo editing can also help with photos.

The greatest inspiration for you will be a thorough, critical tour of photos on real estate servers - save the ones you like best and which repels you, and then find out what makes each photo the greatest positive or negative impression.

Don't build the Potemkin's village

You should also keep the apartment captured in the advertisement photos during the tour.Especially if you still live in the apartment, it may be difficult for you, but try to really dispose of the apartment already as an exhibited goods.Beware that buyers, for example.