With the busy spring real estate season starting, it's time for sellers to spruce up their property.
The work can go a long way toward luring potential buyers clicking through the photos that accompany online listings as well as bump up a home's selling price.
For sellers on a limited budget, painting can work wonders.
"Paint is our No. 1 go-to tip and trick before we do anything," said Peter Souhleris, co-star of the A&E TV show "Flipping Boston" and co-owner of CityLight Homes of Peabody. "Just $200 in paint has given us back $20,000 to $30,000 versus if you left it and you thought to yourself, 'Oh well, someone is going to come in and paint it the way they want.' It's just the biggest bang."
For those with bigger budgets, stagers are an option for empty homes.
"Every builder, every flipper is watching every penny they have, so the fact that so many of them do stages attests to the fact that it obviously brings added value to the house," said Betsy Konaxis of BK Classic Collections Home Stagers in Beverly. "I basically can bring in furniture for empty homes so that ... each room is identified for what it is. It helps create that image of how (buyers) want to live."
Stagers also will work with a sellers' own decor, laying out furniture and redistributing wall art.
"The process starts online," Konaxis said, referring to photos illustrating home listings.
"You don't know who you eliminated because they didn't like what they saw online. I look at everything through the camera lens."
De-cluttering a home is something that owners can tackle on their own. "It's packing up as much as necessary, making your space look as big as possible," said Rosalee DiScipio of McGeough Lamacchia Realty in Waltham. "Knickknacks, personal items, excessive family pictures — stuff like that we always recommend to put away."
Buyers should be able to picture themselves in a home.
"If they see your family in this house, it's going to be harder for them to imagine being (there)," DiScipio said. "It's a mental thing."
Lighting is an easy way to modernize and brighten up a home for short money, said Souhleris, who suggests fixtures that are simple and clean. "Get rid of anything that has brass and oak in it or any of the old ceiling ones that have brass and gold," he said.
Curb appeal also is key. Clear gutters, make sure downspouts drain water away from the house, clean up yard debris, mow the lawn, weed, and trim overgrown bushes.
"If the front is looking bad, it becomes a 'drive-by,'" Souhleris said.
But in a tight real estate market, with not as much inventory of homes for sale, do sellers really have to bother with a spruce-up?
"We see some houses sitting that are bruised and abused," DiScipio said. "Had they done some upgrades, maybe they wouldn't be sitting for as long. But if you just want to be done, list it at the right price, and it will sell."
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