The fact that homebuyers begin their home search by perusing listing photos online means that you have to grab their interest in your home right away.
Here are six important steps to get your home sold quickly and for the highest price possible in your current market.
Decluttering
Clutter crowds a photograph because the lens captures everything in its range equally. The best way to look at decluttering is that it will save you tons of time, effort and money on moving day. You don’t want to pay movers to move or store items you don’t use, love or want, so resolve to cut down the amount of stuff you have.
Depersonalize
Removing personal items from your home helps potential homebuyers imagine their families and themselves living there, as well as helps you declutter and pack non-essentials away for moving. You may think it does no harm to leave family photos on the walls or on the bookshelves, but they only remind the homebuyer that you still own the home.
Clean, clean, clean
Cleanliness makes things look sleek in photographs. It’s worth it to hire a professional cleaning service to clean your home after you’ve decluttered and depersonalized.
Light and bright
Some homes are darker than others. Heavy curtains hold dust and can make your interior gloomy, so replace them with lighter, sheerer fabric. Let as much natural light in as possible.
Staging
Staging is simply adding, removing and arranging furniture and accessories to make your home more modern and attractive. A professional stager has many ways to improve your home’s appeal that you may not have thought about, including replacing and storing your furniture with better-looking, correctly sized and edited pieces for each room.
Photography
All of the above steps should be completed before you or your Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices network professional schedules your photographer. For the photography session, turn on all lights, open blinds, shades and curtains, and turn off ceiling fans.
More than 90% of homebuyers scroll through hundreds of listings on their laptops and mobile devices, so they’ll only click on the listings that grab their attention. Your job is to make them stop and linger on your home so they can visualize it and make it their next home.
