How to sell you home online

Selling your home in today’s ever more connected world has become an easier prospect. From the traditional estate agent proudly displaying your home on the high street cards and billboards to the audacious, yet brilliantly placed adverts on auction sites like eBay. There is a plethora of ways to sell your home and we think that this is a great thing for everyone.

Being an online estate agent service, we have a bit of knowledge on what it takes to sell your home online and so here is our quick guide on how to sell your home online. 

Pick an agent
You want to pick someone who has the experience in selling your home in this particular field. It’s more than a listing on RightMove or a paid advert on a search engine. 

Your agent should understand how people view homes online, how much time it takes for people to make a decision and what particular areas of your home they’re looking at most online. This could be spending time at analysing photos of your kitchen to understanding the square metering of your property. 

You also want an agent that knows how to market your property. From well crafted and time relevant email blasts to thousands of potential buyers to even social promotion of your property. You want to be able to discuss these things with the agent to see how much would go into the marketing of your property. 

Prepare, Prepare, Prepare
The thing with selling your home online is that you want to get prepared, and quickly as well. Yes, the internet has also helped shrink the time of getting your house to market so you want to consider the following things; 

• Documents such as electrical, gas, water and appliance certificates should be in one folder ready for an inspection on your home sale. 
• Photos of your property are an essential part of your home sale (whether that be online or offline). Take the time to get the right shots or hire a professional to take them for you. It’s about lighting, capturing the nuances of the rooms and ensuring that you have a clear shot for everyone to see how well presented your home is. 
• Last bits of DIY that genuinely tend to be superficial such as chips in paint or replacing burnt out light bulbs form an essential part of getting your home ready for a viewing and sale. Put yourself in the buyer’s shoes, you wouldn’t want to move into a home that needs even the most basic of things fixing. 

Start Studying
If you’re selling your home yourself, online, then it is more than likely that you will need to do a bit of guided tours around your house. So now is the time you want to start studying things such as proximity to local amenities such as shops, schools, medical facilities and even local public transport. 

By being better informed at this stage of the sales process you can really sell those appealable facets of your home and where it is based to any potential buyer. 

These are just a few ideas on what is needed to selling your home online, what is essential in all of this is that you remain organised, have a clear goal on what it is you want from your home sale and that you pick the right people to help you on your journey to an online home sale.