How to Create a Beautiful Outdoor Room

If your balcony/courtyard isn't inviting, you're unlikely to take full advantage of it. But just one move can completely transform it from a boring slab of concrete into an inviting outdoor room (especially when preparing to sell your home).
Assess how much time, money and help you have, and figure out what's annoying you out about your outdoor area.

Perhaps there's too much sun, there's not enough light at night, it's too chilly most of the year, your table top gives people splinters or there are so few plants nearby that you don’t even feel like you are outdoors.

Check out these 4 balcony enhancement strategies and decide which one can make yours a place where you’ll enjoy spending more of your time.
 1.Add candlelight: Oversize hurricanes glow with warm light, instantly adding a romantic ambience.
 2.Add textiles: Throw pillows and outdoor rugs now come in fabrics that stand up to weather, so you can use print, colour and pattern with these items as you would indoors.

3 Tips to get the best valuation for your home

Sometimes (though thankfully not often), a home will not value at the price it has sold for, causing the contract to crash or negotiations to re-open.
We’ve put together a list of the three top tips so that when the time comes, you’ll be prepared to get the best possible valuation for your home.
 1.Overall Presentation: The home must be in a similar state of repair to your open houses. In other words, pristine. So after you’ve agreed to a deal and signed the contracts, don’t drop the ball and let clutter accumulate and the garden become unkempt.
 2.Outdoors, Kitchen and Bathrooms:These are the high-price-tag rooms. If they’re well-presented and not dated, they’ll have a huge impact on your property valuation.
 3.Recent Sales Evidence: Stay abreast of property sales in your area by attending all auctions leading up to and including the time of selling your home. Grab a brochure while at the auction to make your notes and hand this evidence to the valuer. This up-to-the-minute information could be very useful, as sites commonly used by valuers can sometimes have information that’s 3 or more months old.

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Why Not Go With A "Flat-Fee" Selling Agent?

Why Not Go With A “Flat-Fee” Selling Agent?

Vendors nowadays expect agencies to have smart offices with modern signage, the latest in computer equipment, to be open six or seven days a week with office staff on hand, and to answer the phone at 9pm at night.

Would you let your most valuable asset be sold by a flat-fee salesperson? What kind of effort can you expect on their behalf? What is their marketing style? What is the style of their office and marketing and what type of buyers does it attract – emotion-driven or investors?

Perhaps it’s more relevant to determine the profile of the agency rather than the commission fee or scale. For example, a prestige property being sold by a discount agency may send a message to potential buyers that you’re a desperate vendor trying to cut corners and save a bob or two.

As with all things in life, there is no black or white, but many shades of grey. The most important aspects of selling your home are to first choose the presentation and style of the agency, discuss the level of service appropriate to the particular property, and then talk about the fee for service.

We hope this has been valuable information, if you have any questions or comments, please drop us a line.