PLANNING TO SELL YOUR HOUSE?
by Dwell Building Services | August 2020 | Pre-Sale Building Inspection
If you’re thinking about selling your house, chances are you’re busy. You could be selecting a real estate agent that you feel will get the job done. You might be contacting your conveyancer to let them know you’re putting your home on the market. Possibly you’re looking at your house trying to de-clutter and decide what to do about “loose ends” with a view to making your sale more straight-forward.
If you’re selling your home, you might want to carry out a pre-sale building and pest inspection to catch defects (or pests!) before someone else does!
All houses have things – a wall that was damaged then never got patched, a mark on the carpet that you can’t do anything about…
Often, home sellers opt to sell their property “as is”. This is a good idea, if you don’t want to carry out a lot of DIY work that may not make any difference to your final sale figure. A lot of things won’t improve your bottom line anyway.
A smart option, in this case, is to have a pre-sale building inspection carried out. That way, you have a document that itemizes all the various maintenance type issues as they are at present within the home for potential purchasers. It also gives you, as the seller, a head’s up if there are any major defects that you weren’t aware of.
You should think about a pre-sale building and pest inspection if your home is:
25-30+ years old and mostly in original condition
If you have had previous timber pest activity
If there have been extensions or renovations done
If it has been a tenanted property in the past
Also, if you do plan to do a small renovation “facelift” to tidy up the house, a professional opinion could be the difference between a good renovation and a bad one, so use the opportunity to get some honest advice from our building inspector.
If you are selling your house via the auction process, you really should have a pre-sale inspection report on hand to show buyers. They might not trust it 100%, because it will be coming from you, the seller, but they will at least know you are serious about selling.
More than likely, people who are interested in purchasing your property will probably get their own pest and building inspection carried out anyway, however if they are aware in advance of most issues, they are not likely to come back to you afterwards and ask for a lesser purchase price. And if they do, you have something to come back with.
