We may sound like a broken record but property presentation really does matter when you’re trying to attract buyers and achieve the best price for your home.
Try as we might to adopt a more European attitude and feel totally comfortable with renting our entire lives, many of us aspire to homeownership. It’s an aim that stems back to the 1980s when the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, set out to create a ‘property-owning democracy’.
Skips. Cement mixers. Brick dust. People with hard hats and high-viz jackets milling about. How do these make you feel? Just like Marmite, homeowners have a love/hate relationship with renovations. What camp do you fall in?
When you sell your home, you’ll want as many people to be impressed as possible. Buyers will make an assumption about your property within seconds, whether that’s when browsing photos online or looking at your property during a viewing.
In 2023, the Bank of Mum & Dad gifted or loaned an estimated £9.4 billion to adult children buying a property. It’s a sum that has almost doubled since 2019, with generous parents and even grandparents keen to help loved ones get a foot on the property ladder.
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