Do you really want to move?

When called in to help prepare a property for sale, especially properties that have "stuck" for a while, Fortanna has been struck by how often vendors seem not to have moved on from their current home. When we give advice, we are sometimes told, "No, I dont think I would like to do that here" or told the kind of people who, the vendor feels, would be most appropriate in the property.

It is hard to stop thinking about your house as your home and extension of your own personality. It is important to do this in order to sell however. The more the house feels like something you own, the harder it is for others to imagine living there. You might not be happy to have a higher fence between your garden and a busy road, for example, or some kind of screening between your lounge windows and traffic outside. However, the whole idea is that you are not going to be living there much longer.

Look pragmatically at your property. Do what it takes to sell it, even if it is not exactly to your taste. The idea is that you can exercise your own taste fully in your next property but you can only do that by moving on from your current one, physically but also emotionally.