Thinkproperty Urge Home Sellers to Clean House or Lose Out
Released
on: September 18, 2008, 11:55 am
Press
Release Author: Thinkproperty
Industry:
Real Estate
Press
Release Summary: As the credit crunch hits the UK housing market,
thinkproperty reveals bad first impressions mean home owners are
losing out on all important property sales
Press
Release Body: thinkproperty, consumer property
portal, has announced that as the credit crunch hits the housing
market, thousands of homeowners are turning potential buyers off
their property, resulting in a failure to sell.
According
to the latest evidence from thinkproperty,
home owners are losing out on quicker, easier property sales due
to basic mistakes resulting in bad first impressions and a failure
to sell at the required asking price.
Mark
Goddard, MD of thinkproperty.com, commented: “Most
house buyers
reach a conclusion about a property within the first 10 minutes
after arriving at a viewing, so first impressions truly can affect
whether a home sells or not. It is surprising that so many sellers
make silly mistakes when trying to sell a property. The smallest
flaws and imperfections can lead to an assumption by the buyer,
that bigger, more important things have also been neglected, making
it so much harder for the home owner to receive an offer."
The
top 10 most common mistakes that home owners make when trying
to sell their property are:
1 - Hiding potential
2 - Not making an effort
3 - Not defining spaces.
4 - Out-dated décor
5 - Showing a dirty space
6 - Forgetting the first impression is outside
7 - Making viewings difficult
8 - Being sentimental
9 - Allowing smells to linger
10 - Unfinished DIY
He
continued, “We are working towards reminding home sellers
that a small amount of time and effort really can make the world
of difference. Selling a property by behaving less like an owner
and more like a professional property marketer can improve your
chances and affect the asking price.”
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Notes to Editors
thinkproperty.com
holds over 600,000 properties from the UK and overseas, including
40,000 rental
properties, and is currently working with over 6,000 agents
who are uploading their stock to the site and benefit from an
increasing number of leads originating from the property portal.
thinkproperty.com places Web 2.0 methodology
at the heart of its functionality, with market-leading functionality
including Google mapping; property ranking; RSS; sold
house prices; and Video Tours being core features.
thinkproperty.com
is wholly owned by GMG Property Services, a division
within Guardian Media Group.
GMG
Property Services Group also owns Vebra, the UK’s
leading provider of software to independent estate agents, Core,
CFP, The Media Design House and thinkproperty.com, the consumer-facing
portal.
Web
Site: http://www.thinkproperty.com
Contact
Details: Karen Hughes
The Drum Consultancy
18 Soho Square
London
W1D 3QL
Tel: 020 7025 8044
Fax: 020 7025 8100
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