A renovation strategy is an excellent approach if you want to sell your home and maximise its value. But beware of falling into the traps that could hurt your return. A significant influencing factor that owners often forget when preparing for sale is the buyer’s preferences, and identifying features that will command a price premium.…
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If you’re seeking some bragging rights for your home, you can’t get much better than installing a wine cellar. We all love to raise a glass, and it has never been more true than during the pandemic. Australians increased their home alcohol consumption by 20% during the lockdowns, according to an Australian National University survey.…
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A few simple landscaping improvements can dramatically improve your garden and impress prospective buyers when you decide to sell. Engaging a professional landscaping company can be prohibitively expensive and may not give you a reasonable return on your investment if you’re about to sell the property. So to add a low-budget, wow-factor to your garden,…
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Seeking inspiration to improve your home can become a fabulous preoccupation with countless websites, Instagram accounts, and old school magazines ready to encourage big and small projects. Even as real estate agents we find home improvements compelling, and they often inform our views of how clients can upgrade their home to maximise its value before…
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Investing in your own home has never been more rewarding as the property market continues to enjoy one of its most significant boom periods. Countless ways to maximize the value of your home exist, but there are few better than installing a modern kitchen. If you’re thinking of selling, this is a great strategy to…
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The humble laundry room is emerging as an influential part of the home for today’s buyers and renovators. Upstaged by new kitchens and bathrooms, many buyers rarely gave a thought to the laundry room beyond its practical function – until now. New interior designs and increasingly sophisticated washing machines have put ways of doing the…
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If you’re in a neighborhood where potential buyers might appreciate the ancient wisdom of feng shui, it might be profitable to pay some homage to the art when preparing your home for sale. While there is a unique philosophy rather than science underpinning feng shui, many of its instructions about furniture arrangement make perfect sense.…
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The demand for property during Covid caught many people by surprise as buyers optimistic for the future poured into a market suffering from a lack of homes for sale. The supply and demand equation is only part of the real estate picture. We have record-low interest rates supplemented with federal and state government saving schemes,…
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When we try to follow the property market in the media, all we ever hear about are auction clearances and the prices being reached. If there’s a boom, then pundits claim a bust just around the corner. We’ve heard this a thousand times but the information is too general to help you decide whether it’s…
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Renovating a bathroom is one of the best ways to simultaneously add value to your home and improve your feeling of wellbeing. A luxurious bathroom adds a new dimension to your lifestyle and always proves a winner with motivated buyers. Typically, it will not just bolster the price of your property but shorten the time…
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