Nor'West News: June 17, 2021

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RAY WHITE PAPANUI NEWS
Four Fabulous Home-Staging Tips
• Matching, freshly laundered linen,
plump cushions and soft music in the
bedroom create a relaxing atmosphere.
•Decorative pieces spaced in oddnumbered
arrangements offer the most
pleasing effect for visual symmetry, but
keep these to a minimum.
• Make sure wardrobes, cupboards and
cabinets are neat as a pin and stocked
with the bare minimum. Potential
buyers always look inside as further
proof of the type of storage they are
seeking.
Home staging is the preparation of a
private residence for sale. The objective
is to present the property in as appealing
a manner as time and budget allow.
Ensuring the home is attractive to the
highest number of potential buyers also
enables the promptest and most effective
sales results.
Staging your home for maximum effect
Given time, effort and meagre
financial outlay, most homeowners
are equipped to implement their own
home-staging touches. Larger-scale
home improvements, such as cosmetic
makeovers and landscaping projects,
might require specialist assistance.
Creating home staging with the wow
factor
Whether you do it yourself or enlist
professional help, preparation and design
vision will add immeasurable value to
your staging projects. These include:
1. Freshly painted interiors in white or
neutral colours provide a new look to
any property.
2. Declutter your furniture, decorative
pieces, books and items that are not
necessary or eye-catching. Less is
always more in the presentation stakes.
A couple of key furniture items, side
tables instead of a central coffee table,
adding a framed or wall-hung mirror for
the illusion of extra space, one feature
artwork and elegantly potted plant
per room often create all the style and
pizzazz required to win over your buyer.
3. First impressions are lasting, so the
exterior must dazzle the eye to attract
potential buyers inside. Investing
in light landscaping work, such as
fresh planting, a statement outdoor
sculpture or artwork and, if budget
permits, installing an outdoor cooking
zone or calm-inducing water feature,
will work wonders for your resale
value in the long run. At the very least,
decluttering the extraneous elements
of your exterior, weeding out dead
plants and shrubbery, cleaning gutters
and removing moss or mould build-up,
will provide a new lease on life for your
outdoor area.
4. Lastly, ensure that everything is spic
and span for viewings and open homes.
Extend the impression of solidity,
uniformity and personal style with little
touches that you can impart on the day.
These include:
• Freshly brewed coffee, subtle incense
or interior fragrances create olfactory
evocation that is designed to draw in
new or unexpected buyers.
• A bowl brimming with seasonal fruit
and fresh baguettes in a basket in the
kitchen add to the aspirational quality of
homeownership.
• Include coordinated accessories and
fresh flowers in the bathroom and toilet
areas.
Where to from here? Any of the members
of the Ray White Papanui sales team
are happy to come out and offer advice
and professional contacts for creating
home staging that is designed to secure
your home buyer with the quickest and
most value-added approach. Get in touch
today, we look forward to hearing from
you.
Content originally appeared on Real Estate
Voice
Vanessa Golightly,
Business Owner
and Licensee Agent
Ray White Papanui
027 664 9292
Feature Property
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Tracy Thomson
Vanessa Golightly
Licensee Agent &
Business Owner
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Stuart Morris
Licensee Agent
& Auctioneer
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Tracy Thomson
Licensee Salesperson
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Maria Paterson
Licensee Salesperson
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Claire Morris
Licensee Agent &
Business Owner
027 662 4822
Katrina Green
Operations Manager
Property Management
027 606 0030
Richie Eggelton
Licensee Salesperson
021 089 65594
Paul Nicholson
Licensee Salesperson
027 921 2160
Are We Going To
Run Out Of Rental
Properties In
Canterbury?
Hasna Ngara
Licensee Salesperson
021 262 4943
Jana Schleehauf
Licensee Salesperson
022 090 1227
Previously mentioned how I believed that
the recent changes to laws around tax
and capital gains was impacting the rental
market in New Zealand and over the past
few weeks I have noticed a real decline in
advertised properties.
When I combine this with what my team are
telling me about the number of enquiries
they are receiving for advertised rentals
and the amount of very disappointed
tenants who are missing out, I do think that
we are heading for a shortage of rentals
right here in Canterbury.
Today when I look on TradeMe I note that
the numbers are sitting at (aside from postearthquake)
an all-time low in most of the
Canterbury districts. This is certainly the
case for the 15 years I have been working
in the industry. Here are the numbers for
you: Christchurch – 857, Waimakariri – 19,
Hurunui – 8 (includes Hanmer Springs),
Banks Peninsula – 8 and Selwyn – 71.
If you break it down into suburbs, there are
definitely some pockets where there are
still a reasonably high number of properties
available, in particular the city centre where
there are a lot of apartments popping
up. However, if you don’t fancy inner city
apartment living or living in the Selwyn
area, and are looking to rent, then your
choices are very slim.
The Government’s dream does seem to
be that all New Zealanders will have the
opportunity to own their own home, and
while this would of course be fantastic what
we need to remember is that not all can,
or indeed want to own their own homes. I
read recently where it said that over 33% of
New Zealanders will never own their own
home, through choice or financial ability.
Private landlords in New Zealand provide
homes to Kiwis, and regardless of the bad
press they often get, it is important to
remember that we will always need houses
for those who wish to rent.
Next time I will talk about how you can get
into the investment property market, why
you should, and provide a few tips about
choosing the right property.
Katrina Green,
Operations Manager
Property Management
027 606 0030
Olivia Hendry
Executive Assistant
Estelle Schuurman
Property Manager
Georgia Tuuta
Excutive Assistant
Joy Coughlan
Mortgage Broker
027 223 3572
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