If you are looking to sell your home, it is important that you focus on all the sense. Sight is crucial, and you need to ensure that your home looks as appealing as possible, but the other sense can have a huge impact on whether a prospective buyer decides to follow through with their buying intent.
If there is a lot of noise in the home, say your boiler is playing up, or you live on a noisy street, you may find that some buyers don’t want to pursue their initial interest. There is also the fact that sense of smell has long been recognised as important in the property market. A very common tip provided to people selling their home has been to bake bread or to brew fresh coffee when viewers attend the home. This is said to convey a feeling of homeliness, making people feel comfortable and in a positive frame of mind when they view property.
However, in the modern day, it appears there has been a switch away from this. If you have guests coming to your home, it is polite t offer them food and drink, so this style of offering can be nice and very welcome, but it appears the right scent is a more important matter
Baking bread or brewing fresh coffee used to be the top-tip when selling your home, but according to online estate agency, House Network, buyers are looking for a well-presented property with the right scent.
House Network is an online estate agent and they claim to have undertaken research into the matter, with the company founder Mark Readings releasing a statement, saying; “Coffee or cookies used to work in the past, but now house buyers take note of background scents from candles and diffusers, so we have commissioned a survey to find out whether it is citrus, lemongrass or vanilla which helps make a viewing into a sale.”
It would be fair to say that these scented items and products are becoming increasingly popular around the home. People like to offer a welcoming sense of smell in a home and there is no denying that a certain fragrance will connect with some people. However, it is likely that some of these preferences are purely a matter of taste as opposed to being a universal solution. There is an argument that citrus smells offer a clean and vibrant impression of a property but if the prospective buyer prefers vanilla, you may have made the wrong choice in going for the light and zesty option.
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