Astonishing what a spot of cream cleaner can do.
According to the Mirror, it helped add £280,000 to a home’s value within the space of three hours.
First, the paper got three agents to value a “fairly unremarkable” house.
Then it rolled up its sleeves and spent three hours cleaning it.
And finally, it got three more agents from different firms to come in and value it.
“That’s right,” says the paper cheerily, “three hours work and £15 spent on cleaning products added 26% to the home’s value.”
While our readers may have their own views on quite such a remarkable difference in valuation, it turns out that the Mirror has further tips on how to sell your house faster.
These are offered by the Mirror which has teamed up with the NAEA to suggest:
- Tidy the front garden
- Clean the gutters as obviously these are the first things that someone will want to see at first viewing
- Tidy the back garden
- Open the curtains if the viewing is during the day (what?); plus the inevitable
- Bake some fresh bread or roast some coffee to make it smell nice
EYE has an idea.
Well, actually we think you have some ideas.
Can any of our readers come up with some updated tips for sellers?
Comments (5)
They should have asked the second lot in first and would have saved themselves the £15 and all that hard work!!
I’ve just had something similar, where the owner didn’t need to do a thing by inviting an agent in from 20 miles outside her area and they promised a cool £400K more. I’ll happily give the Mirror that agents name for their next article. (The house failed to sell last time round at a much lower price)
What this story doesn’t tell you is how drunk the second lot of estate agents were as the paper had taken them down the pub for a few before.
Kidding.
Of course all estate agents have no clue on the house prices in their area that’s why there was a 26% difference in price.
26% ?
Someone has walked on something and it isn’t cow plops, oh ! it’s bull.
if only i had known these things 25 years ago, how much easier and more lucrative my career would have been.
I sense that Rosalind is not entirely convinced by the advice given by the NAEA and Mirror
I suppose you could be 300 grand better off if you sold with an on line agent as well, £325k if you cleaned the windows and if you wanted to go for the biggy and make it a cool £350k, you could always stick a bl00dy panda in.