while it’s on the market. It signals a motivated (but not desperate) seller to potential buyers. An occupied home, particularly one that looks well-lived in, won’t give the message that the seller is ready to negotiate and sell. If you’re planning on putting your home on the market, it can be an advantage to do so after you’ve moved into a new place. This way, prospective buyers can tell that you’re ready to sell and follow through with the deal.
SELLING YOUR VACANT HOME
Selling a vacant house requires taking that extra bit of care to ensure all details are perfect in order to guarantee every chance of getting that sale, and to encourage the buyer that there’s no reason to be hesitant about considering your property. An advantage of selling an empty house is that it allows the potential buyer’s imagination to run wild during the home viewing. Without the distractions of furniture and homey touches, prospective buyers can imagine their own things in every room and start mentally placing their own lives in the vacant spaces. Emptying the house could very well be a blessing in disguise if the seller is the type of homeowner who has clutter or a flamboyant taste in decoration. Too much personalization will leave potential buyers unable to picture themselves there. There are ways to make an empty house feel homey. The impression you want to give is that it’s a home eagerly awaiting a new family to start creating memories. You don’t want it to look neglected and “sorry for itself,” as if it had been abandoned. A house needs to have character to encourage a sale and there are ways to give a vacant home the appropriate bit of personality with even minimal staging.
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