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Posts Tagged ‘Homestaging’

Home direct loans and the present state of the home market.

Monday, September 8th, 2008

With big building firms going out of business and the state of the housing market appearing worse and worse. The market doesn?t look good. People I know keep on saying I want to ? sell my house? but are not sure whether to, due to poor equity. Personally I would like the opportunity to get my foot on housing market in the start. The new incentives that have been put onto the market aren?t really flexible enough to entice me into buying a home, with the only homes that you can buy being new builds which frankly a lot of the time look like little boxes with very little space, is this just another attempt for the government to reach target. The fundamentals are developers generally want to knock out as many buildings as fast as they can for the least amount of money on the least amount of space. Individuals need an area that they are investing their money into for their own benefit, somewhere they aren?t over looked and where they feel they can get out into their garden into their own space. The stamp duty lifting to ?175,000 is something that should have been sorted out a long time ago rather than the appeasement policy for the little people it appears to be, that is only going to last for a short period of time. Most people are unable to save for a mortgage because they are don?t have the spare funds and although we get studies that the average wage is a certain amount it has no relation to the low amount most of us earn.

Dodging the house selling fees and finding help along the way.

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Okay, so you are thinking how do I sell my house, you have the vision in your head of the ideal home you are after but how do I sell my house and avoid all of those expensive fees|When you are thinking about the ideal home or perfect house. I always get into the position where I think okay so how can I sell my house. Don?t get me wrong I know I?m in a privileged position to already own my house but the prices incurred to sell my house through an estate agent is massive.

Luckily I was surfing the internet looking for houses to buy online and came across a cool site that let me to post up images and text about my home with dimensions. There was advice on home staging (simply means making your house look lovely for viewers when they step through the door, and get them into a purchasing frenzy) and all of the other things you might possibly want to sell your home online.

What I did think was brilliant was that you can even get your own for sale banner outside your house with a phone number on it that puts your call through to any telephone number you want it to. We used them and they were amazingly helpful, talking us through any questions that we might have and helping direct us in the right track for other aspects of the sale.

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