When you’re looking to sell your home, we’re sure you want top dollar for your property (and rightfully so)! Prior to selling, it’s important to assess where your home lies on the value spectrum and ask yourself if there’s anyway to increase your homes value prior to selling.

In this post, we give you a few tips and ideas to guide you through increasing your home’s value so you can get top dollar for your property at closing.

Cosmetic Upgrades

The first, and most obvious, improvement you can do to make cosmetic improvements to your home. That chipped paint in the kids room, the overgrown landscape outside or that unfinished back deck can be eye sores to potential buyers! Making your home look and feel pretty will help aid in buyers wanting to take the home off your hands and pay more than asking price.

Additionally, while it’s not an upgrade, actually decluttering your home can assist in the cosmetic portion of adding value! Having a beautiful, clean slate of a home makes it ready to sell and highly appealing to potential buyers.

Efficiency Upgrades

A beautiful home is great, but if it’s not efficient…selling for top dollar will be hard to do. While certain vintage pieces are nostalgic, think about ways to improve the efficiency in your home and make it smarter than the rest.



A few things to consider for efficiency:

  • New appliances - while also cosmetic, buying new appliances that are more efficient can help save buyers on their bills

  • Smart systems (i.e. security) - installing a security system that only requires buyers to add their own credentials can aid in making the home feel secure and safe to potential buyers

  • Solar panels - a large investment of course, but if you have the money to do something of this caliber, it’s a HUGE selling point to have a solar energy source on a home, (especially to millennial buyers who are the newest home buyers in the market)

Space Upgrades

You know what everyone has no problem paying extra for? Additional space. In addition to the previous upgrades we discussed, adding on more square footage, acreage, etc. to your home is a foolproof way to increase your home’s value.


For example, while it costs in the short term, converting your basement into a fully operational studio with it’s own private entrance can be sold to buyers as an income producing bonus on your home. It’s all about figuring out how to expand your space to make it work to your benefit with selling!



Trying to Increase Your Home’s Value? Ready To Sell?

If you’re in the Bay Area, be sure to give our team a call today to discuss your home selling efforts! We’re here to help you win and can provide unbiased insight on how to add further value to your home prior to listing.




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