ARTICLES!
QUICK PROPERTY BUYERS?
- What Is The Best Way To Sell My Property?
- How to sell your house quickly?
- How can I tell if a cash buyer is trustworthy?
- What will a property buyer offer for my home?
- Different ways of selling your home quickly
- Houses bought for cash: does this really happen?
- How much will it cost to sell my home?
- Quick house sales and where to get them
- Sell my house fast: here are a few options
- Will anyone buy my home?
ESTATE AGENTS?
- Recommended Estate Agents
- 10 things you must know about Estate Agents
- Shall I choose the cheapest Estate Agent?
- Do I need a Rightmove Estate Agent?
- Can I trust an Estate Agent's valuation of my property?
- Are there any good online Estate Agents?
- Choosing an asking price that draws in buyers
- Do I need an EPC to sell my property?
- Does my Estate Agent need to advertise my property for sale in the local newspapers?
- Do I need to use a local Estate Agent to sell my house?
- Finding the best Estate Agent
- How do I choose the best Estate agent to sell my home?
- Shall I sell my home privately or sell using an Estate Agent?
PROPERTY VALUATION?
- Free online house valuation
- How to add value to your home
- How to value your property
- How you can use house price data to accurately value your home
CONVEYANCING?
- What is property conveyancing?
- Property conveyancing process for a house seller
- Property conveyancing process for a house buyer
- What about DIY conveyancing?
- How do I go about choosing the best conveyancer?
- Property conveyancing glossary: A guide to the commonly used terms in conveyancing
HOUSE REPOSSESSION
- Repossession process explained
- Ways to stop a repossession
- Where you can get help if you're facing repossession
- Mortgage Rescue Scheme
How To Add Value To Your Home
How To Add Value To Your Home
If you think that adding a swimming pool to your home will increase its value then think again. In fact a swimming pool could even detract from the value of your home and result in it being worth even less after you have paid a significant amount to have that state of the art swimming pool installed. So what will add value to your home?
Increased Floor Space
Increased floor space is a good way to increase value to your home. This could be through adding on a conservatory, through an extension, through a loft conversion or through converting a garage into additional living space. But (and this cannot be emphasised enough) always ensure that you have all the appropriate Building Regulations Approvals, or Planning Permissions. If you simply go ahead and build, without the requisite consents, then you will find that when you come to sell your home, you will not be able to. However, if you do it properly, if you ensure that you convert the space well, then you will add value to your home.
A Second Toilet
A second toilet can be really useful, especially within a family home, so that in the morning, when you are all desperate to get out of the house on time, you are not having to queue for the toilet. If you can install a second shower then this is even better, since otherwise you will still find potential buyers deterred from having just one family bathroom.
A word to the wise though; en suite bathrooms are often a real pull for the guys. They love the idea of just rolling out of bed and into the toilet/shower etc. Well women often don’t like to have their man in the very next room, undertaking toileting activities whilst she is trying to sleep. So en-suites may have been the darling of the 90’s, but they are pretty old hat now. So put the second toilet or shower in somewhere else!
Go Green!
Anything that you can do to improve the sustainability of your home will increase its value. But before you rush off and install wind turbines, this could simply be about installing washing lines or a new boiler!
Increased Storage
Unless your potential buyers are great at being minimalists, nearly every home requires some form of storage. So if you have an area under the stairs or beneath the immersion, why not think about making it into storage and this will help increase value.
Keep It Impersonal
If you want to make your house the one that flies off the Estate Agent’s shelves, then make sure that it is a blank canvas on which people can stamp their own individual personality. Neutral colours, few photographs, no toys cluttering up the place and no dirty dishes around will not transform your home into a millionaire’s pad, but if your house and the house two doors up are for sale and yours is nice, neat, tidy and neutral, whereas the house two doors up is scruffy and highly personalised, then yours will sell, but the other house will not. In a sense that is all that matters because a house that sells is worth a great deal more than one that doesn’t!