The advantages of selling a free house
- The house is easier to show to potential buyers
Without occupants, the house can be shown at any time. As a real estate agent, I can even dedicate an entire afternoon to a potential client or a couple to show one, two or three houses when they are empty. An empty house can also increase the number of customers interested in seeing it.
- It is not necessary to keep the house tidy and clean all the time.
One of the most stressful tasks for a real estate agent is keeping a house clean that is shown regularly. So showing an empty house eliminates this stress. Obviously a scrupulous real estate consultant like me takes care of airing the house a few hours before showing it to potential buyers and checks that no dust is visible on the wooden floors and that everything, from the window panes to the terraces, is perfectly clean https://www.atticushomebuyers.com/we-buy-houses-eau-claire/.
- If you own the property but don’t live there, you don’t have to make appointments to open the house.
Here I am addressing the owner of the property to be put up for sale. As the owner of the house or flat, when they are empty you don’t have the hassle of arranging appointments with the estate agent to show your property.
- Some buyers prefer to see empty properties to imagine how they could furnish them.
There is a percentage of buyers who enjoy imagining their belongings in an empty house. Furnished houses, even if tidy or improved thanks to a Home Staging intervention, tend to dampen the imagination of this type of person. They can’t see beyond what they already have, they can’t imagine anything other than their furniture and accessories. There will always be a percentage of buyers who have no imagination and who are mainly struck by the furnishings present in an occupied house, even if it is a luxury apartment or a prestigious villa and who cannot focus on the architectural structure, the spaces, the layout and size of the rooms, windows, etc.
