Limerick

House Sale in Limerick

Take a Cold Look at Your House

Whether in Limerick, or anywhere else for that matter, every house seller wants his/her house to sell quickly and at the highest price. The way to achieve this is through careful planning, knowing how to professionally enhance your house, and, just as importantly, developing an unemotional view of it. Once you decide to sell, you need to treat your house as a product that can make money for you, not as a home. Concentrate on the fact that soon this house will no longer be yours. Don't look backwards, look towards the future. The reason you want to make your house appear as an anonymous showhouse is because you want buyers to view it as their potential home. Potential buyers can imagine themselves living in it, without being reminded of anyone else's involvement in the house.

Remove as many personal possessions as possible from view. Pack up those personal items and family photographs. Buyers can't see beyond someone else's personal belongings, and you don't want them to be distracted. Make it as easy as possible for buyers to imagine themselves living in the house. You want potential buyers to be able to say to themselves: 'I can see myself living here.' Get rid of clutter and junk.

Pricing Your House

Once you have decided to sell your house, you obviously want to get as much money as possible for it. It's very easy to get caught up in the excitement over choosing a sales price. More money means you can afford to buy a more expensive house, buy a new car or treat yourself to a long overdue holiday.

But in reality, it doesn't matter how much money YOU think your house is worth. The only person whose opinion really does matter is the buyer who makes you an offer.

Putting a value on any house is part art and part science. It involves comparing similar properties in your area of Limerick, allowing for the differences among them, tracking market changes and taking account of how many houses similar to yours are for sale. All this information is needed come up with a range of values, an educated opinion. This method is the same way a valuer decides how much your house is worth. And no two valuations are ever exactly the same; however, they are generally close to each other. In other words, there is no hard and fast price tag to put on your house. It's only an educated guess and, no matter what figures are suggested, it's the market that will dictate the price. If your house is dramatically above the going market price, few people will waste time viewing it. Their time is better spent previewing houses that are priced realistically.

Photographing Your Property

Try to take the exterior photos of your property in the middle of the day when the sun is shining and try to get a blue sky background. Remember, you can replace the images you have placed with your property advertisements, so if you take a better photo later, you can still include it.

For outside shots of the front and back of your house, put away rubbish bins and remove anything that will distract from the view of your house. Remove any cars from the driveway, and try not to include telephone poles, wires and other houses in the scene. Trim your photos so that potential buyers can concentrate on your house.

For apartments, include shots of amenities in the area. For all properties, you should include photos of scenery that may interest potential housebuyers.