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The benefits of having a home open to sell your home

Professionals Real Estate Latest News | News for Sellers | Western Australia News 5th January, 2015 No Comments
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In real estate sales, Home Opens for homes for sale are a great technique for selling homes in Western Australia.
A few decades ago, most homes were sold after the prospective buyer made an appointment to inspect a home.
Home Opens have become more popular because they provide an informal way for home buyers to inspect a home without any pressure to make an offer on the property.
Home Opens are a set time when any potential home buyer can inspect a property which is advertised for sale during a set period of time which is usually 45 minutes to one hour. They are generally held at the weekends and advertised in newspapers and the Internet along with a description of a home.
Home Opens can be a very effective way of marketing your home providing you obtain advice from your Professionals real agent on how to maximise the benefits of selling technique.
Your Professionals real estate agent will advise you on the best time and day to hold your home open. The location of the home will help determine the correct day and time of the Home Open because homebuyers prefer to visit certain areas on particular days and time. For example, Home Opens tend to be popular with homebuyers in the southern, northern and eastern suburbs during Sunday afternoons while they are more popular on Saturday’s in the Western suburbs.
Another important issue it to make sure you have feedback from homebuyers who visit the Home Open. A good technique is to have a guest book where prospective homebuyers can leave their comments about the property. Prospective homebuyers can also leave their contact details which enables the selling agent to follow-up them up at a later stage and obtain additional feedback on the property.
This feedback from the Home Open can be critical in terms of improving the presentation of the property as well as re-adjusting the selling price of the property.
The selling agent can also provide information on how to best present your home during the home open. Issues such as appropriate background music and create an emotional attachment to the property for prospective homebuyers.
It is very important that the property is consistently presented to a high standard during every Home Open. Your agent may also provide you with a checklist on key points that have to be addressed each time you have a Home Open to ensure that the property is presented to its highest potential. This checklist may include the position of furniture and the overall presentation of rooms and gardens.
After the completion of the Home Open your agent will brief you on the number of people who attended the Home Open, their comments and whether your marketing plan for the property needs to be readjusted.