THE FREE GUIDE FOR OSWESTRY HOMEOWNERS

Thinking of selling? Do these 10 things first.

The simple, low-cost jobs that win more viewings and a better price — done before your home ever goes on the market. The first three are below, free to read. The full guide is yours by email.

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Be suspicious of the biggest valuation.

Here's something most agents won't tell you: valuations are how agents compete for your business. The easiest way to win an instruction is to name the biggest number — and worry about reality later.

An overpriced home sits. Buyers scroll past it, viewings dry up, and after a couple of months you reduce the price — publicly. Now every buyer can see the reduction, and they negotiate harder because of it. Homes that start too high routinely end up selling for less than they would have at an honest asking price.

The first two weeks on the market are when interest peaks. Price it right on day one and you meet the market at full strength.

DO THIS

When an agent gives you a figure, ask one question: “What evidence supports that?” A serious answer includes recent sold prices (not asking prices) for comparable local homes. If the answer is vague, the number is a pitch, not a price.

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Walk through your home like a buyer.

You stopped seeing your own house years ago. The coat pile, the broken gate latch, the bedroom that's become storage — it's all invisible to you and glaring to a stranger.

You're probably buying as well as selling, which makes you the perfect mystery shopper. Notice what puts you off other people's listings — dark photos, cluttered rooms, tired paintwork — then hunt for the same faults at home.

Selling is competitive. Your buyer is comparing you against every similar home on the market this month, so you should look at those homes too: what do they offer that you don't, and what do you offer that they can't?

DO THIS

Walk in through your own front door with a notepad and phone camera. Move slowly, room by room, and write two lists: strengths and challenges. The strengths shape the marketing. The challenges are your jobs list.

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Start at the hallway. It's the room buyers judge first.

Ask people which room sells a house and they'll say the kitchen. But buyers make up their minds far earlier than that — most viewings are half-decided in the first thirty seconds, and the first thing every buyer experiences is your hallway.

Hallways take more punishment than any other space in the house: scuffs, muddy shoes, coats, the general traffic of family life. A tired hallway whispers “this house is hard work” before the viewing has properly begun.

The fix is cheap. Fresh neutral paint, a clear floor, good lighting, and somewhere for coats that isn't a heap. First impressions are a one-time offer.

DO THIS

Repaint the hallway even if you repaint nothing else — it’s a weekend and a tin of paint. Then stand at your open front door and look in. That view is your viewing’s opening line.

That’s 3 of 10.

Tips 4–10 cover: the decluttering balance most sellers get wrong · the small repairs buyers silently price against you · cleaning like a hotel · pets · why the outside sells the inside · the photo mistake that quietly costs you viewings · and what to do (and not do) on viewing day.

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Everything in the guide works better with an accurate price on it — and that’s the one job you can’t do from a checklist. A market appraisal with me is free, carries no obligation, and comes with the evidence behind the number. Some people book one a year before they move, just to know where they stand. That’s a perfectly good use of it.

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