Enhancing your apartment to sell it quickly and at the best price is easily achievable. Refreshing, beautifying, and bringing living spaces back to life will immediately appeal to potential buyers. Home staging, a practice of American origin, encompasses various techniques aimed at remodeling the decoration and layout of a house to sell it under the best possible conditions.
Highlighting the exteriors
Balconies and verandas as well as gardens must appeal to buyers. Beyond thorough cleaning, which may include pruning shrubs or removing dead leaves, it is useful to give a soul to your exterior. To create a love at first sight for the prospective buyer, they must be able to project themselves, both inside and outside. A terrace, a balcony, or a landscaped garden offer real additional value to your property, especially if the apartment is located in the city center.
Creating more space in the rooms
It is useful to rearrange the living spaces a bit to give more volume to your property. Remove overly bulky furniture, eliminate overly personal decorative items like photos, knick-knacks... The goal is for the potential buyer to be able to "see themselves" in your apartment. This is all the more important as everything happens in the first minutes of the visit. So, a few more neutral decorative objects and sober like candles or flowers will embellish the rooms without overloading them. By decluttering the rooms, you will give more value to your interior, and you will also save time for your future move!
Creating storage areas
An apartment that is well organized, especially thanks to different storage solutions, is always easier to live in. Having a closet installed, one of the must-haves of decoration, undoubtedly offers a plus to the property for sale. But setting up simple shelves in different parts of the house (under the stairs, in the bedrooms...) is a winning strategy. Converting the attic can prove useful in attracting future buyers.
Cleaning, refreshing, and renovating
Make sure to give the best impression possible, that of an apartment where not only order and cleanliness prevail but also, a space without any false notes or dysfunctions. Replace lamps, faucets, or toilets that do not work, fill in holes left by nails, replace the bathtub seals... your accommodation must be welcoming. The first impression is always the most decisive, let the visitor imagine themselves in an apartment that can become theirs, just by settling in!
The property you wish to sell must be welcoming and perfectly clean. A thorough cleaning is required, focusing on the kitchen and bathroom, which are high-traffic areas. Beyond a meticulous check of cleanliness, changing the worktops or the backsplash can transform the kitchen into a privileged place that will trigger the decision of the prospective buyer.
The choice of paint will influence the perception of volumes. Choose light colors that will enlarge the spaces while giving them style. Otherwise, opt for wallpaper, easy to apply, very trendy at the moment, and which transforms the room. Reorganizing and revamping your apartment for sale does not necessarily involve extravagant costs. However, you will have a significant increase in the value of the real estate for sale. If you are not handy, there are decorators who take care of the harmonization and reorganization of your interior.
Undertaking major renovations before selling your property?
Some major renovations are not recommended before putting your property up for sale. For example, facade refurbishment, roof replacement, a new kitchen are significant works that generate a lot of expenses and will not make you earn more on the sale price.
However, some energy renovations are essential to carry out before the sale, especially if your property is not up to safety standards or if your energy performance diagnosis (EPD) is poor. Even if it is a significant investment, it will be profitable during the sale. Also, as an owner, you can benefit from aid for your renovation.
So, do not hesitate to improve the energy performance of your property by changing the boiler, replacing the windows with double glazing, or insulating the walls and roof.
