Seller Tips: Boosting Your Curb Appeal When Selling Your Home
We often hear about the importance of curb appeal when looking to sell a home. Curb appeal reflects the way your house looks from the street (i.e. the curb). The first impression a visitor receives upon arriving characterizes the curb appeal of a home, so it is important to bolster this appeal by painting our shutters, installing new windows, turning on the lights, and opening the drapes.
So it stands to reason that the front yard plays a tremendous role in a home’s curb appeal – and, by extension, in the overall impression that it leads. If you are looking to sell your Warner Robins home, sprucing up your front yard is consequently a great way to make your property more attractive to potential buyers. Here are a few tips on making this happen:
Trim and mow. First and foremost it is important that your front yard looks clean and contained. This can easily be accomplished by taking some time to mow the lawn, trim the bushes, and perhaps even cut back some branches on the trees.
Make it colorful. If you’re selling your home during the spring, summer, or fall, making your front yard look lush, bright, and colorful is perhaps the best way to boost curb appeal. Darken your lawn by using fertilizer. Plant flowers along the edge of your house. Clear the tree canopy to allow sunlight to filter in.
Repave the driveway. Your driveway is just as much a part of the front yard as the lawn, at least as far as curb appeal is concerned. Moreover, a driveway can make a quick and lasting impression on a visitor. If it is cracked and grey, they may subconsciously view the whole front yard as bland and unkempt. If it is smooth and dark, however, the driveway can contrast the boldness of the grass and give your property a sleeker look.
Install outdoor lighting. If you’re showing your home during the winter, especially if you live in a snowy and colder climate, you aren’t likely to benefit from fertilizer or flowers when looking to bolster your curb appeal. But you can install ground-level outdoor lights to ring the driveway, the walkway, or to illuminate your home. This can be especially helpful when visitors come during the gloomy twilight hours of winter.
Hopefully these tips can help you improve the perception of your front yard and boost your home’s curb appeal. While doing so cannot make up for an unappealing interior, it can go a long way towards keeping your home on a potential buyer’s mind – an important quality in today’s tough housing market . If they are otherwise on the fence, it just might be enough to secure the deal.
9 Response Comments
Great tips Anita…one needs to heed the curb appeal tips and open the front of a home up…so many homeowners especially have let their trees grow way too high next to the home. It is time for deforesting the front yard too! yes i like the idea of improving the driveway….knowledge from the Warner Robins realtor who knows her home selling points.
Ginny Lacey Gorman
Ginny…With lots of competition, sellers need to understand that buyers can and will be finicky. It’s always best to stand out in a good way. 😉
These seller tips are great for anyone looking to sell your home. Curb appeal is essential as many potential buyers will not even step inside the house if it looks bad from the inside. To this list I would also add, clean your front windows. Its amazing to see what a windex can do.
You are right M.S. Thanks for the additional list tip.
The curb appeal is really important for a property for sale because it gives the impression to whatever is in the inside, Thanks for the tips, and maintenance has to be done as well.
Always a pleasure to provide information that folks can use Jessica.
Curb appeal is a must. To add to your Repave Your Driveway, I would recommend at least pressure washing it and pressure washing wood privacy fences. Easy, cheap ways to boost curb appeal.
I agree D.R. and they can be completed in a few hours.
Very well explained. It is one of the first impressions when showing homes to clients. In condo buildings curb appeal gets replaced by looks of the lobby and the overall aura that the building gives to the potential buyers.