5 ways to make your Exeter home appeal to buyers after lockdown

Estimates now suggest that the COVID-19 lockdown may have a significant impact on the property market in the future. Although buyers are now beginning to consider moving again, the coming period of economic downturn may affect your ability to sell your property once lockdown has ended. However, there are many actions that you can take now to ensure that your property is appealing to buyers once the market opens again, ensuring that you will be able to move as quickly as possible as the country returns to a new normal.

1. Focus on Your Garden

Many homeowners who are thinking of selling their property focus on renovations for their home’s interior are choosing to spruce up their paintwork and renovate their kitchen hardware. However, if you are planning to renovate your home during the lockdown, you should not forget the impression that the exterior of your property will make during viewings. To ensure that potential buyers love your garden just as much as your home, you should weed all of your flowerbeds. You should also consider installing rockeries if you are looking for an attractive and yet low maintenance garden feature and building a patio to keep your front garden pristine.

2. Consider an Extension

One of the downfalls of many older homes is that they are not large enough to support the needs of modern lifestyles, with small, cramped rooms, and low ceilings. To make sure that you can present your home as a comfortable place to live, you should consider building an extension. Bright and spacious orangeries are currently gaining in popularity as an alternative to conservatories. These features allow you to create a family-friendly space for storage and entertaining, while also being one of the only options that you can build without the need for planning permission.

3. Repaint Your Walls with Neutrals

Although first-time homeowners should spruce their walls up with bright and trending paint colours, such as mustard and lilacs, if you are looking to sell your home after lockdown, the advice is entirely different. The aim of redecorating a property to sell is to check that it is not overly personalised. Repainting your walls can help to make your home look bright, clean, and well-maintained while using neutral shades ensures that potential buyers can imagine how they would decorate your home without the distractions of vivid pops of colour.

4. Create a Centrepiece

Many people who are looking to buy a new home have a list of ideal features that they look for during viewings, and these often include large centrepieces, such as fireplaces. By installing an attention-grabbing feature into your rooms, you will be able to make your house stand out from the others that buyers have viewed, while also being able to meet the criteria for their dream home.

5. Break Up Your Hallways

The first feature of your home that buyers are likely to experience is your hallways. If the entrance to your home is bland and uninspiring, this is likely to reflect on the whole of your home. To ensure that your buyers love your home from the minute that they walk in, you should consider breaking up the blank space by adding wall art and paintings, installing shelving that holds plants and mirrors, and even opting for flooring features, such as rugs.