If you’re thinking of selling your Greater Springfield home or investment property, then ensuring that you have impacting open home inspections should be a key part of your sales and marketing strategy. Read on to find out our top tips to make sure your open home stands out in the competitive Greater Springfield property market.
Tip 1: Create a welcoming atmosphere for potential buyers
Here are some great ways to do that:
- Use your aircon to make sure the temperature of your home is ideal.
- Keep your lights on to make your home feel as bright and cheery as possible.
- Make sure your home smells good by using air fresheners, scented candles or fresh flowers.
- Put fresh linen on all the beds.
Tip 2: Stage your home for maximum appeal
Home staging or styling involves borrowing or renting some quality furniture for your home selling campaign. It’s fairly inexpensive to do, and it can really lift the appeal of your home, and therefore the selling price you can get.
Make sure you get some advice from an interior designer to help style your home. They can work wonders, even on limited budgets. Arrange your furniture so that it makes your home look as spacious and inviting as possible for potential buyers.
Tip 3: Avoid common open home mistakes
Here are 3 common and easily avoidable open home mistakes:
- Don’t be at your own open house event.
Give your agent the space to do what they need to do by making yourself scarce. Your agent should be able to give you a thorough debrief after it’s over.
If you’re selling an investment property, encourage your tenants to be away from the property when your open home is on, even if you shout them a coffee. They aren’t likely to have any interest in you selling your property. Ensure that you or your property manager gives them as much notice of your open home event as you can as a matter of courtesy. - If you have any pets, make sure you take them with you.
The behaviour of pets is unpredictable, and you want potential buyers to be able to fully explore your home and yard, without having any ‘no-go’ areas where a pet like a dog is kept separately. You should also do your best to remove any signs that your pet lives at your property (for example bowls, toys, bedding or smells). Pets can be a real turn-off for some potential buyers. - Don’t leave any valuables or confidential documents lying around.
It’s common sense to ensure your personal items or information isn’t on public display at your open home event.
The bottom line
The advantage of an open home over private buyer inspections is that it can get multiple potential buyers to your home at once. That helps to generate buzz, excitement and buyer competition around your property, helping to drive offers.
How our Purple Cow team can help
Like to find out more about how our Purple Cow real estate team can help you to sell your Greater Springfield home or investment property? Hosting successful open homes is a key part of our sales and marketing strategy. The latest figures from realestate.com.au show that our Purple Cow agents achieve selling prices that are $73,000 higher than competing agencies in the Greater Springfield region.
Our dedicated property management professionals can also help you if you’re looking for hassle-free management of your investment property to maximise your returns.
Contact us today for an obligation-free chat and experience the award-winning Purple Cow difference for yourself.
