Successfully Selling Your Vacant Home

A shortage of available homes for sale has certainly made it easier to sell a vacant home. 

However, the same pitfalls that relate to selling empty houses more quickly, and at best price remain. For sellers who have experienced a job change or other event which requires they move and leave a vacant and unfurnished home behind to sell, there are often issues requiring special consideration. That's because many folks buy on emotion and have a hard time warming up to an empty house.  A lived-in home can be much more appealing.

Empty homes often present an echo when you walk through them, and because doors and windows aren’t opened to allow air to circulate, odors can accumulate.

So, you are selling a vacant home, what can you do to create an edge from all other vacant properties listed For Sale?

(1) Consider leaving draperies and window coverings on the windows when you move.  In most cases they will not fit your new home anyway.  And leaving them in place, helps to muffle the echo heard in vacant houses.

(2) Paint the house and deep clean. When homeowners move, they take pictures and move furniture to take with them.  This usually leaves discolorations on the walls, and flaws not previously noticed are now visible.  Paint is inexpensive, and often pays dividends in sales price.  Use neutral colors, which will go with furniture, prospective home buyers may have. 

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(3) Leave light fixtures in place throughout the house.  Lighting helps the house seem more welcoming.  If you have 60 watt bulbs in the fixtures, consider increasing the watts to 75 or even 100, if the lamp or fixture will accommodate it.  Rooms seem larger and warmer with more light. 

(4) Leaving some furniture behind, it is worth doing.  Make certain it is of reasonably good quality, and not old furniture you were planning on hauling off to the dumps.  Furniture in a marketed home can help a home buyer put things in perspective.  Furniture provides an element of scale to a room.  

(5) Consider a Home Staging service, or furniture rental.  If you don't have enough furniture for your new home and this existing home you’re selling, staging or furniture rental can make a great difference.

(6) Rent out your vacant home ONLY if you have NO financial recourse, other than doing.  Generally typical tenants do not keep houses in "show-to-sell" condition, nor are they always the most cooperative in allowing access for showings. 

If you are selling a vacant home, be certain to communicate with your real estate professional about other tips to selling your home!  

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