Selling Your Home: Updates and Repairs

Talk to your KW Selling Team agent about common updates you can make to your home to help it sell 50% faster.  The most common updates according to KW Market Navigator are: painting, flooring, lighting.

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When choosing a new paint color, pick a light neutral color.  Not everyone likes bold colors.  Lighter shades of paint also reflect light better and will help the home seem open and airy.  After you are done paint, box up the family photos instead of putting them back on the walls.  A blank wall is a clean slate.  A buyer can start envision their personal items in the home.

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Refinishing hardwood floors, giving your kitchen floor a good scrub, or putting in new carpet is also important.  Gleaming hardwoods or spot free floors show how clean a home is.  You wouldn't want to move into a home that had permanent reminders of the previous owners, neither do the buyers looking at your house.

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Don't underestimate the power of lighting.  Replace burned out bulbs or add a new lamp to your living space.  A home should be well lit during a buyer showing.  Dark spaces can look dirty, dingy and smaller.  So add a new lamp to brighten up the corners of your house.  This will make the space larger as you can see all of the home instead of getting lost in the shadows.