Are you looking to sell your home? If so, you might be considering professional staging to help present your home in the best light possible. You can save a bit of money by doing some staging on your own. Read on for some tips that can help you present each room in your house in [...]

About to sell? Who do you target your property to – and how? Costa Charalambous and Your Investment Property reveal how. When you bought your first property, you had a purpose, the property met your needs, and certainly there was a special connection. Now as the vendor, you are on the other side of the [...]

Vendors and buyers should be wary of certain practices that may be employed in a negotiation. In Britain and the US they call it ‘‘gazundering’’. It’s when a buyer makes an offer on a property that is accepted but then reduces that offer. Gazundering is just one of the pitfalls of buying and selling residential [...]

When you can tick all the boxes, you can rest easy that your home is ready for sale. There’s nothing like a list to provide motivation. And when you’re about to sell a home, you need that list more than ever to get things done and give your home that special “Wow!” factor before propective [...]

Moving to a far-flung location can seem like a great idea at the time. Many people consider the impact that such a move will have on jobs, what style / price of house they can get and just how lovely the lifestyle will be. But then there’s the friends and family factor. Just how hard [...]

Many so called experts will tell you the Christmas-New Year period is not a strong period in the real estate market. Sure, real estate is not on everyone’s mind at this time of year, but all you need is just one buyer. The bottom line is that there are still buyers in the market at Christmas and it is only at this time of year that they have the time to spend looking at properties.