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Property Negotiation - Experience over Emotion

Selling your home is an exciting time, and decisions will be made on buyers ability to complete, time scale and costs, meaning there will likely be a lot of emotion involved in the process.So get this: The worst person to deal with negotiations is YOU!Why? Because your emotions WILL get in the way of achieving the best price.In order to get you the best price on your home, we'v...

What to do when your neighbour’s house is for sale too

There are a number of issues when your house is in competition with a neighbour’s property, and if you get your timing and marketing right, they can actually help yours to sell. Here’s my guide to selling when your neighbour is selling too:Don’t wait until they sell before putting yours on the market – often, property competition is positive, gener...

What surgeons and selling your property have in common!

Let me ask you a question. If you found out tomorrow you needed to have open heart surgery, what kind of questions would spring to mind?Here’s what I'd be asking… Success rate? Risks? Experience of the surgeon? Both in terms of qualifications and number procedures carried out? And maybe a few more too.We can all agree that the more experience someone has in...

8 seconds to sell your home!

At Property Canvas, we prefer where possible to accompany all the viewings on your home.However, there may be times when this is impossible, for example, Sundays or late evenings, and you may find yourself showing a prospective buyer around your home yourself. When there’s so much riding on a successful outcome, this can be quite a daunting prospect!With such an imp...

What ‘No Sale, No Fee’ Really Means!

You'll often hear the expression "no sale, no fee" which is a basis on which many estate agents like ourselves work on.But what does it actually mean?It means this: we are only paid by results. Irrespective of the time and money we have spent on professional photography, videos, 3d tours, countless viewings, producing marketing materials, advertising, sales progression and...

Why you need 3D tour or video to sell your home!

Do you have a 3D Interactive Tour, or a Video tour, or even a floorplan?An online tour of your home can really make or a break the decision to view a property. Buyers like to see – in advance - how a house is laid out, and a tour does this for them before they have even stepped through the door.However, not all agents realise how valuable a selling tool online tours ...

Rightmove - 3 part mini course – part 1

Your next three Homeselling Secrets are a three part mini lesson series on Rightmove! If you are currently on the market, ask your agent for your Rightmove Property Performance Report. If you are struggling for viewings, the statistics on Rightmove will usually correlate. How many detail views are you getting? How are you competing with other similar pr...

Rightmove 3 part mini course – part 2

Welcome to part 2 of your 3 part mini lesson series on Rightmove! Just to reiterate the goal here – to improve your Rightmove property advert so that more browsers click on your property. We know that there is a distinct correlation between Rightmove views and viewings you’ll get, so we need to get your rating as high as possible. Have you discovered your...

Your Rightmove 3 part mini course – part 3

Welcome to the 3rd and final part of your 3 part mini lesson series on Rightmove. Quick recap of your objective – to improve your Rightmove property advert so that more browsers click on your property. The more views on Rightmove the more actual viewings you’ll get.In part 2, I told you all about how to use a smart ‘pricing strategy’ so that you pot...

How to avoid the garden close

Today we’re talking about getting the best results from viewings.Where do your viewings end? After you’ve shown them round the house, do you then take them into the garden?The problem is with doing this, is that as they are already in the garden, possibly in sight of their car, it’s very easy to say goodbye and for them to simply go at that point. What you rea...

How much does it cost to sell a property in Cyprus?

When you know what's going on with the sale of your property in Cyprus, it may make the process lot less stressful. You don't need us to tell you that the present market is extremely difficult for sellers to navigate. Unfortunately, only the greatest and most reasonably priced houses will find buyers in today's market. The vast majority of properties placed on the market will...

Buyer questions to be ready for

When you have buyers coming to view your home, questions are to be expected. With some, the estate agent will be able to reel off the answer as they glance at their documents, but others will be more personal and about being at home in your home.With this in mind, we’ve put together some likely questions that may arise when potential buyers have a genuine interest in your...