Premhouse.com JAKARTA | Hire a real estate agent to accelerate your house selling! | Are you willing to sell your house? You think you have delivered the best effort to meet this purpose but it is seemingly still hard to get the right buyer? Here is a summary of the main factors which might cause you get difficulties to find the right buyers:
1. The price is too expensive
Like or dislike, you might feel free to determine the right price for your house. Nevertheless, whether it will be sold or not, the price plays an important role. In order to ease yourself in finding a reference for its market price, it is important to compare your house price to the ones around your neighborhood. If you start with the price that is too expensive, it is surely hard to be sold.
2. The timing is not right
There is certain season for selling or buying the house. But there are also periods of time which can be identified as a moment when many people seeking available house. The timing toward feast day might be right, since many people get their bonuses or allowances to buy a house, or the fact that buyers are mostly seeking houses during dry season rather than rainy season.
3.Buyer is hard to find location of your house
Many people today are searching the houses through online media for property. If your house is not listed in the right location or if your house is advertised in such an unpopular media, the buyer might skip or miss your house from searching. Please ensure that your house is easy to be found in a reputable online property website.
4. Photos of your house in online media look uninteresting
Those who are seeking houses through online property website might be instantly interested, once they see the photos of your house in monitor screen or vice versa. You should impress your buyers first, before they decide to visit the house location. Highlight the most interesting parts of your house, make sure all photos are focus-on and display your house to be the best one.
5. Your house needs repairs
If you will sell a house, make sure that it will not burden the buyer. Most buyers will not be busy with things-to-do-list before they occupy it. Just repair or fix your house to indulge your buyer.
6. Too many special 'things'
A Roman statesman, Marcus Tullius Cicero, once said, people are failed because they refused to consider small things when implementing preferences. This also happens in the house seling process. You cannot expect other people to imagine that they are the occupants of your house, if there are too many personal touch which refer to your identity in the house. Hence, color your house using stadard one, remove all of your stuffs e.g. family picture, jacket and your children's crayons, so that your buyer will not be annoyed when visiting your house.
7. The layout is chaged
You might have a unique idea to make over your garage to be a recreation room, while most buyers need special area for their vehicles and other stuffs. To change bedroom to be a toilet might be good idea for you, but most buyers are expecting extra bedroom for kids and their visitors. So, if you will renovate the house, change in generally like other people do.
8. Attractive outer apperance
If a buyer is not interested to outer appearance of your house, it's quite hard to imagine that he will be interested to step in to take a look inside. If your house listing looks good but you never take care of your house during an offering period of time, e.g. the grass keeps growing, dusty, water pipes are damaged or the lamp is off, never wish a buyer will be interested. Make sure that a buyer is impressed with the way you take care of your house.
9. Too much to buyer
Let a buyer witness and experience just the way it is without you filling them with too much information that may turn his interest toward your house. Just pass those info to a real estate agent instead, so that the buyer will be liberated to give his own verdicts that might become advantageous feedback for you.
10. Selling it by yourself
4. Photos of your house in online media look uninteresting
Those who are seeking houses through online property website might be instantly interested, once they see the photos of your house in monitor screen or vice versa. You should impress your buyers first, before they decide to visit the house location. Highlight the most interesting parts of your house, make sure all photos are focus-on and display your house to be the best one.
5. Your house needs repairs
If you will sell a house, make sure that it will not burden the buyer. Most buyers will not be busy with things-to-do-list before they occupy it. Just repair or fix your house to indulge your buyer.
6. Too many special 'things'
A Roman statesman, Marcus Tullius Cicero, once said, people are failed because they refused to consider small things when implementing preferences. This also happens in the house seling process. You cannot expect other people to imagine that they are the occupants of your house, if there are too many personal touch which refer to your identity in the house. Hence, color your house using stadard one, remove all of your stuffs e.g. family picture, jacket and your children's crayons, so that your buyer will not be annoyed when visiting your house.
7. The layout is chaged
You might have a unique idea to make over your garage to be a recreation room, while most buyers need special area for their vehicles and other stuffs. To change bedroom to be a toilet might be good idea for you, but most buyers are expecting extra bedroom for kids and their visitors. So, if you will renovate the house, change in generally like other people do.
8. Attractive outer apperance
If a buyer is not interested to outer appearance of your house, it's quite hard to imagine that he will be interested to step in to take a look inside. If your house listing looks good but you never take care of your house during an offering period of time, e.g. the grass keeps growing, dusty, water pipes are damaged or the lamp is off, never wish a buyer will be interested. Make sure that a buyer is impressed with the way you take care of your house.
9. Too much to buyer
Let a buyer witness and experience just the way it is without you filling them with too much information that may turn his interest toward your house. Just pass those info to a real estate agent instead, so that the buyer will be liberated to give his own verdicts that might become advantageous feedback for you.
10. Selling it by yourself
You should pay for a commission fee to a real estate agent but please bear in mind, that the role of such a real estate agent is very good in giving advises to your potential buyer. Selling a house by yourself might be giving you benefit from not paying agent's fee, but at the same time you will be burdened and wasting time while the transaction may not be happened soon as expected.
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