Kitchens, Baths, and Patios: Top Home Selling Points

It’s time to sell your home. You obviously want it looking its best so that prospective buyers fall in love with it. This may lead you to consider touching up your home to make the best possible impression. If you have the time and the budget, you may even consider remodeling for high return-on-investment. If you’re trying to figure out the best parts of the home to give special attention to, there are a few places that buyers are more likely to pay attention than others. Chief among these are the kitchen, the bathrooms, and patios.

Considering the Kitchen

A lot of work goes on in the kitchen, so it makes sense that home buyers want to make sure that the kitchen meets their needs. If your kitchen is dirty, cramped or outdated, that could raise a few red flags. Most potential buyers are looking for a big, open kitchen with modern appliances and usually a few key features like a dishwasher or kitchen island.

Obviously, your home doesn’t need to have all these things to sell, and it may not even be realistic for you to make those sorts of upgrades. Still, it’s possible to find a balance between a small, cramped kitchen and a potential buyer’s dream kitchen. Taking a moment to design a kitchen remodel to meet that balance can help you make tweaks to increase the likelihood that a buyer will want to purchase your home.

A Focus on Bathrooms

The bathroom is one of the most important rooms in a house, and buyers want to be confident that things will work well in the bathroom. There’s a lot that goes on in the bathroom, though; beyond the obvious, this is also where people get ready in the morning, take their showers or baths, brush their teeth and sound their absolute best when singing along to a favorite song.

Because of this, there’s always a wow factor involved when a potential buyer sees a nice bathroom. This can be a combination of new and nice-looking fixtures as well as cleanliness, lack of obvious mildew or water damage, layout and things like adequate lighting and sufficient mirrors. Most bathrooms only have a limited amount of space to work with, but you’d be surprised how much of a difference you can make with a few tweaks and upgrades.

Enjoying the Patio

Not every home has a backyard patio, but those that do always get oohs and aahs from potential buyers. A lot of homeowners want to be able to enjoy their time outside of their home, and having a patio can make this a lot easier since you can set up tables, chairs, a grill or anything else in a secure and flat area outdoors.

This isn’t to say that you must build a patio to sell your house, though some sellers do make significant changes to landscaping and outdoor areas to spruce things up. If you already have a patio, take the time to make sure it’s recently painted or stained and is otherwise in good condition. A patio can make a big impression, but an ugly or damaged one can make the wrong sort of impression on your potential buyer.

Sprucing Up the Whole Home

Obviously, there are other parts of the home that you can make changes or updates to if you’re getting ready to sell your home. General repairs, remodels or upgrades can interest potential buyers regardless of where they occur. But take care of any obvious damage, and then focus on the kitchen, bathrooms and decks, before you work on any other big areas.