Promoting Your House For Sale in Spain

A slightly different post today as this is from the perspective of a seller. We are now getting towards the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere and Valencia's days are reaching well into the evening and interrupting the night. More sun during the day is meaning more heat being built up. For those people who have a house for sale in Spain this is the time to push an advantage in the market if you have it, air conditioning! When a client is coming round to visit your house as a potential buyer or tenant and you have air conditioning make sure that when they step into the living room from the sweltering outside that a waft of cool air conditioned wind and a tumbler of ice cold water greet them. Why? Well many people think that you are condemned to live in a sweaty funk in the Spanish midsummer and nothing could be further from the truth. The best houses for sale in Spain are set up with air conditioning for the summer and central heating for the winter and many of them are actually relatively green because the air conditioning can run off solar panels for its electric so it actually uses the heat of the sun to cool you down. So remember sellers, if you are pushing your house for sale in Spain you need to give it the greatest number of advantages that you can compared with other houses on sale. Some tips to help you out. Make sure the pool if you have one is pristine and clean. Reduce clutter. Nobody likes seeing piles of washing and pots and pans in the sink. Reducing clutter makes the place look bigger too. Smells work really well. Not sweaty socks and teenage bedrooms, but flowers, strawberries and olives. Coffee is the usual suggestion of course along with freshly baked bread but if you have a lot of visits you may get too much bread in the bin! Paint. Give a touch up to tired rooms and stained walls. Gardens. If they are overgrown and messy the buyer's imagination will work overtime imagining how long it will take to keep them in a decent state. If they are perfect the buyer will assume they are always like that. For more tips on selling your house in a crisis and also during the good times that will eventually come along have a look at Nick Snelling's book below. Well worth your investment if you are selling and if you are buying it can also give you great ideas about what to be looking for in a Spanish property sale. How to Sell Your Spanish Property in a Crisis