{"id":7433,"date":"2016-03-23T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realestatetalk.com.au\/?p=7433"},"modified":"2016-03-23T01:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:00:04","slug":"ways-to-prepare-your-home-for-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/channels.realty.com.au\/realtytalk\/ways-to-prepare-your-home-for-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways to prepare your home for selling &#8211; Naomi Findlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn today&#8217;s show we talk to <strong>Naomi Findlay<\/strong>\u00a0from Silk Home Staging and Styling,\u00a0an interior designer who shares some do\u2019s and don&#8217;ts if you are preparing to sell a property.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><b>Kevin:<\/b>\u00a0 I guess one of the most asked questions of me is what do we do when we want to sell our place? What works? What doesn\u2019t work? Let\u2019s tap into that. Naomi Findlay is from Silk Home Staging and Styling and knows a lot about what it takes to sell a property.<br \/>\nGood day, Naomi.<br \/>\n<b>Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 Good day, Kevin. How are you?<br \/>\n<b>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/b>Good. It is one of the most asked questions. What are your dos and don\u2019ts if someone wants to sell their place and get the most for it?<br \/>\n<b>Naomi:\u00a0 <\/b>I think my number one do is make sure that you meet the market\u2019s expectations. I think that\u2019s an absolute first and essential thing that you need to do when you\u2019re thinking about putting your property on the market. You need to do some research. You need to do some due diligence about where your property fits in the market and what the market\u2019s currently expecting from your property in that price range and in that location.<br \/>\n<b>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/b>That\u2019s pretty important, isn\u2019t it? I\u2019ve seen it happen so many times. If you\u2019re asking $1 million dollars for a property, and it only has a couple of bedrooms, you\u2019re just never going to make it. It just won\u2019t happen.<br \/>\n<b>Naomi:\u00a0 <\/b>Absolutely. And it works both ways, Kevin. A lot of people feel that sometimes they over-meet the market. They invest too much in making their home award-winning or luxury, and the market in that area is not actually after that.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s about just making sure that you\u2019re meeting the market\u2019s expectations, with a little bit of a buffer zone on either side. That way, you\u2019re not either, one, over-capitalizing or, two, missing the mark and \u2013 as you\u2019re saying \u2013 asking $1 million dollars for a two-bedroom property, for example, when there\u2019s a four-bedroom property that\u2019s potentially a great comparison next door for the same price.<br \/>\n<b>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/b>That\u2019s a big one. What else do you have?<br \/>\n<b>Naomi:\u00a0 <\/b>This one\u2019s an old one but I can\u2019t stress this enough. Having your property maintained and repaired is a huge, huge one. It\u2019s a huge do. There\u2019s some great evidence around to say that 90% of buyers will actually pay above and beyond to have a property where they don\u2019t need to go in and fix other people\u2019s lack of maintenance. A poorly maintained property isn\u2019t really a renovator. It\u2019s more fixing up what other people haven\u2019t had an opportunity to attend to.<br \/>\nMake sure that your property is well-maintained and in good repair. Making sure that the downpipes aren\u2019t rusted, making sure the decks are oiled, making sure that the grout\u2019s cleaned, those sorts of things are essential to making sure that you leverage your value<b> <\/b>in the property.<br \/>\n<b>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/b>Get someone in who can help you with that, too. Quite often, we live with something and we make allowances for it and say, \u201cIt all looks fine to me,\u201d but then someone who comes in and has never seen it is going to pick up on those things \u2013 dirty grout and stuff like that.<br \/>\n<b>Naomi:\u00a0 <\/b>Absolutely. A deck doesn\u2019t become in bad shape overnight; it becomes in bad shape over the course of a year or two years. Grout doesn\u2019t become discolored overnight. When we\u2019re living in the house, it\u2019s not that we\u2019re dirty or that we don\u2019t care; it\u2019s that we don\u2019t actually see it, and you need those fresh eyes.<br \/>\nBringing someone to help you identify that, and also \u2013 as you said \u2013 bringing someone in to help get on top of that. There are so many people who specialize in domestic services nowadays that if you don\u2019t have time, for a very small investment, you can absolutely take care of those things.<br \/>\n<b>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/b>Yes, getting your property market-ready is a big one. What other tips do you have for us, Naomi?<br \/>\n<b>Naomi:\u00a0 <\/b>This one is, again, based on numbers. I\u2019m sounding like a bit of a numbers geek here. The evidence shows us that the biggest turnoff in a property is a dark property or a property that smells. Ensuring that you have adequate light in your spaces, and ensuring that if you have pets, or if you cook lots of curry, or if you are a smoker, that you get on top of those odors.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s not something that you get rid of overnight, so you need to identify early on that you\u2019re going to go to market and be honest with yourself about your home. Spend some serious time making sure that you have adequate light in spaces and that they\u2019re odor free, because it is absolutely number one and two in the top turnoff list for buyers when they\u2019re looking at properties.<br \/>\n<b>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/b>If you\u2019re looking at selling your property, Naomi, I need to ask you about staging, too. Does it work, and how do we go about doing that?<br \/>\n<b>Naomi:\u00a0 <\/b>You know what?<b> <\/b>It absolutely works. There are some great statistics around the return on investment that you can get when you\u2019re staging a property. Staging a property is all about showing people how to live in the space.<br \/>\nWith many of the smaller studios or apartments or even our big, open-plan spaces, only 10% of people can visualize what to do in a space with furniture. So you want to make sure that you demonstrate that for the potential buyer. In the 6 to 12 minutes that they\u2019re looking at your property during an open inspection, you need to make sure that they can easily identify how they would live in that space. That just lets them connect to it really well.<br \/>\n<b>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/b>Naomi, thanks for your time. If you want to contact Naomi, just go to her website, NaomiFindlay.com.<br \/>\n<b>Naomi:\u00a0 <\/b>Just .com.<br \/>\n<b>Kevin:\u00a0 <\/b>Just .com. Naomi \u201cJust dot-com,\u201d thank you for being with us.<br \/>\n<b>Naomi:\u00a0 <\/b>Thanks so much, Kevin. 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