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6 Great Tips to Prepare Your Home for the Seattle Real Estate Market

  • By Karen Cervarich
  • 24 Aug, 2019

If you want your home to stand out in the hot Seattle real estate market and surrounding cities, there’s a few important steps you should take. While baking cookies to give potential buyers a whiff of what home really smells like is a great start, it’s going to take more than chocolate chips to close the deal. As you prepare to sell your home be sure to consider the following, as completing the following is sure to decrease time on the market and increase the sale price!

Remove Odors

If there is one thing hope shoppers are going to notice when they enter a home, or certain a room in a home, is a bad smell. If you live with pets or had a hobby room that was subjected to chemical use, you’re going to want to utilize odor elimination tactics. A foul scent will almost always result in a buyer passing up on a home.

Deep Cleaning

Scrubbing your home down to its bones is a given, but the job is a lot harder than it sounds. Remember that home buyers will be looking in every closet and corner of the tub, so a true wall to wall cleaning is necessary.

Remove Personal Items

Since you’re trying to help a buyer see themselves in the home as their own, it’s time to take down excessive family photos in the hallway, children’s art on the fridge, and other items near and dear to you.

Neutral Color Paint

While your kids’ pink and green rooms or peach fuzz family room may pull the house together in your eyes, it’s nothing but a distraction to buyers. Painting the walls whites and tans will help buyers focus on the actual space, opposed to the color of the wall.

Enhance Curb Appeal

First impressions are everything! It’s time to enhance the front of your home with potted plants, power washing the driveway and walkways and completing any repairs to the exterior of the home that may draw a wary eye.

Stage the Home!

If you want to truly wow potential buyers who visit your house, utilize a home staging expert! Staging a home for sale in Seattle and the neighboring areas is a sure way to stand out in the market. This practice ensures visitors will see how big spaces really and how best they can be utilized by using modern, practical furnishings and accessories.

At KCD Staging we offer complete home staging in Bellevue, Seattle and throughout the Eastside. Our luxury home staging services are second to none and are specifically designed to wow buyers from the moment they pull into the driveway. If you’d like to learn more about our services or request an estimate please don’t hesitate to contact us by calling 206-383-6767 today!

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