November 14, 2025 • 41 mins
You're ready to sell our getting your final bits in order to get your property on the market.
You don't have the time nor energy to give the whole house, inside and out, a lick of fresh paint, or redo your landscaping, or renovate your slightly out of date kitchen.
So what are the areas that are most important to get sorted before listing your property?
And for the buyers - what are you better off ignoring when it comes to property marketing?
It could be the features that look grand in the listing photos but mean very little in real life, or scuffed flooring that may just need a polish.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
You're listening to the Weekend Collective podcast from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Take you down.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
As welcome back to the Weekend Collective. I Tim Beverage.
This is the one roof radio show where we want
your calls and participation on eight and eighty uh and
you can text on nineteen nine two, but we do
love those calls. But just looking a little further ahead
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(01:06):
children a bit of extra recompense for, if anything, and
should you be given them pocket maney because we live
in a cashless society of these days. Who's even got
money in their pocket anyway? Right but right now this
is the one roof radio show and we're gonna have
a chat about if you are getting ready to sell
and you're getting everything lined up to get your property
on the market, and you might be looking at it
(01:27):
and going well, ideally I would have repiled the house
and put a new roof on it, but what are
the things you know? Maybe you should have renovated your kitchen,
read done a bit of landscape, but what are the
things you absolutely should get sorted before listing your property.
What are the and if you're a buyer, what are
the things you would which would put you off a house?
But also what are the things which, to be honest,
(01:49):
you should probably just ignore that because once you've got
the house in your hot little hands, you can transform it.
So what are the bits you've really got a nail
to get the buyers interested? But buyers, what are the
things that you know turn you off a property? So
we want your numbers on this. Wait hundred eighty ten
eighty text nine two ninety two, and to discuss this
(02:10):
and take your calls. She is the CEO at the Proper,
she's CEO at the Property Lifestyle and her name is
Nicole Lewis and she's with us for the one Roof show.
And Nicole, how.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Are you hello? Hello, I'm very good.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Have you got a bit of a have you got
a to do list? And if you were selling a property,
what do you make sure is tickety boo? Because there's
a part of me I should give my ignorant. I'll
give my ignorant. Take I reckon that if you are
appealing to it depends who you're appealing to, of course,
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but if you're appealing to people who want to move in,
if you've got a kitchen that looks like it needs redoing,
that's a bad look because people I would want to
if I was buying a house, I'd want the kitchen
to be. Oh, look at the kitchen. There's just there's
a starter, a start of for ten. What do you reckon?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Okay, first of all, I thought perfect when you said
it depends who you're appealing to. So I look at
it thinking, okay, I always talk property quadrants. I go,
who is our bayer? Are they in quadrant one being
a homeowner? And if they're a homeowner and they're going
to move in, you're right. Kitchen, bathroom, paint, carpet, landscaping,
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that's what we want to do.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Kitchen. That would sound like a really simple list, and
I've forgotten already. Kitchroom, bathroom, paint, carpet.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, and a bit of landscaping. You don't have to
go nuts in your landscaping. Sorry landscapers, but you know,
just make it very nice. The law outside the lawns actually.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Mo the lawn would be that's a no brainer.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, fence up a few fruit fruit trees, you know,
that sort of thing, but a bark in the gardens,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Actually, just while we're on that, I know you landscaping
is not the number one, but actually planting a few
fruit tree trees is not an expensive exercise at all.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Now, don't I usually just go you go to min
to ten, you know, buy some some good little trees
and a little bit of potted color. Plant those yourself,
get some embarked delivered, make it look good, it goes
a million miles, it looks fantastic.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Actually, well that's that's the first impression, because they've before
they've even before they've been rocked up in the front door.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Because they will drive away, you know, like you agents
will say this all the time that they're open homes
advertised and cars drive up, they stop, and then they
don't even get out of the car, they drive off.
Because if your buyer as a quadrant one home buyer,
they are emotional, they've got to be well.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Once quadrant one again we might have Quadrant.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
One is a home buyer. You're buying your house to
live in. Oh occupy.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think when we were thinking of this topic, we
were thinking home by at home as in not a
house buyer, but a home. So they're going to live
in it.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Okay, so they're going to be emotional, they're going to
want to fall in love with it, and right from
when they pull up, before they even get out of
the car, there's anything they don't like, they won't even
go in.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Gosh, actually, because that's funny, because if I was mischievous,
i'd say you almost contradicted yourself because we said landscaping,
not that. But actually we've ended up settling on it's worth.
It's not where you have to spend a lot of
money and create. I think what you were saying was
you don't have to redo the whole thing, but you
can just make a few small steps to make everything
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look right.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Correct, correct, I guess what I'm saying. It's the smaller
expenditure out of everything else. Yeah, okay, they don't get
carried away getting a landscape architect. No, No, just meend
one hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
No, if you haven't wanted to do it while you
owned it, then probably now it's not the time, right. Actually,
what would be things you'd need to get fixed? Because
I saw something on a social media post and it
was calling it was. It was calling for It was
one of those property sort of pages on Facebook or
(05:53):
something where they were looking at I'm not sure if
they were looking at maybe whether they'd buy it or
whether they needed to fix it. But it was a
big retaining wall. There's a lot of high land at
the back section, and then retaining war was still intact,
but it had a little bit of a there were
a bit where it looked like it was a bit
under pressure. I mean things like that, because that would
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to me as a buyer, I'd be thinking, shivers, there's
one hundred thousand bucks if that falls.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Over See, that's a really good question because especially first
home buyers don't forget we can differentiate this market as
well into first home buyers, second home buyers, and also
high end buyers. First home buyers often most of their
money is going into the futures, so things like you know,
making sure the roof is good and the retaining walls
done is really important because they can't afford them. But
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then as a seller, they don't actually add any value.
No one's going to pay more because your retaining wolves
fixed and your roof is new. It's just expected to
be good. And I put buyers off if it's not
because it's an expensive thing to do.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
So what do you do? What would I mean that
one that's focusing on a specific issue, but it is
something where it could be a turn off for a
lot of buyers.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
See this is where I say it depends who your
buyer is, because if you as a vendor, you know
a seller, you're going to sell your house. If you've
got a really run down house, you've lived there for
fifty years and you've never done anything even though you're
in love with it because you've lived there for fifty years,
your buyer is not going to be a home buyer,
is going to be a renovator. Yeah, and you see,
if your buyer is going to be a renovator, you
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don't have to do anything. They will be buying on
the numbers.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
What sort of a renovator? But I guess how do
you work out what are the renovations that you really
need to get ahead of as the seller? Because everyone
loves the idea like, oh, my goodness, me, if we
could just patch a couple of those dents in the
wall and replaster or paint, and oh we could do
the carpet. That's all doable. But are there renovations that
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that would be a step too far, such as obviously
a retaining wall type of issue. What are the step
what are the steps too far for a reno?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I think this is another interesting question because it depends.
It depends a how long have you owned the house?
In other words, you know, how much equity have you
got in there? Have you got money to spend?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And the other thing were you going to spend it?
One way, either before or in the sale price.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But the other consideration is things like retaining wool in
that that doesn't affect you while you're living there. But
I've done hundreds well yeah no, But what I mean
is I've done hundreds of renovations, right, And if you're
going to do the kitchen, the bathroom and the carpet
and the paint, you rip everything out. You can't even
live there while you're doing it. So you've got that
to consider, you know. I've also you can do bits,
(08:42):
you know, like you can do I've done that before,
done my own house, put my own kitchen in, had
no kitchen for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Well we did exactly that. I can't remember how we coped. Well,
we could plug the fridge in, and I think we
left the kitchen sink that bench, yes, until the last minute, right,
and then when they rolled in, they rolled in.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And carpet is such a pain because you've got to
move all your furniture for them to put the carpet in.
Says you know, you've got to really consider those things.
And the other main thing as a home buyer too
or a vendor, I should say, is that you've got
to ignore your personal taste. Yeah, because you know, if
you go and think, oh, I'll put down pink carpet,
(09:23):
you might put buyers off because I don't want that.
You say, everything you do has to be neutral, because
your favorite thing might be someone else's worst thing.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Okay, so what if you're talking to home buyers, what
are the things once Okay, that we've had a you know,
the backyard or the front yard. There's a few things
that you can do. Mow the lawn from the hedge
that doesn't take a lot of work. I would suggest
you absolutely need to probably absolutely probably clean the windows.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yep, definitely. I use our company called Simply Windows. Yeah,
you know, they're between two and five hundred dollars depending
on how big your houses makes a huge difference. Having
your windows cleaned.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I get that downe all the cleaning windows, how bad?
How dirty would your house have to be before you
decide you're going to give that a one.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I always do it. It doesn't matter because can you do
that yourself? Yeah, you can do. Just get the lots
spray something I do inside and out. You got to
make sure they're not streaky. And also depending on if you've.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Finned, I don't mean the windows, I mean the actual househouse,
whatever it is, the breck or the boards or whatever.
Should you be given the house a clean as well?
Because we're starting to get a bit of a list here.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yep, yep. Well, and you see this is what I mean.
And this is where I say it depends. Do most
home buyers do that? No, the people who present houses
pristine are usually renovators, right, yeah, because home you know,
when you're selling a house, you haven't got a ton
of money.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Okay, So for people who are selling to home buyers, okay,
you've walked in the front door, what what are the
things that you absolutely need to nail and other things
that you just don't worry about that too much.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And this is where. It's a good question because that
buyer is emotional. So I always say, let's say you
have an open home and twenty people come up, nineteen
people won't like it because agents always go, what's your feedback,
and vendors can and say. Vendors can get depressed but liked.
This person doesn't like this, and I've had so much.
The lounges too small, the lounges too big, the main
(11:15):
roads too noisy, it's too quiet, the deck's too small,
it's too high, exactly. But what you've got to remember
is you're just looking for that one person who's going
to love it. And there's always going to be that
one person who's going to love it, and what that
love is is different for every single person. It could
be the area that they fall in love with, that
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it's close to a school, you know, so that sort
of things also outside of your control.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well that's in a way, that's almost because one person,
if you in a way that's telling me that you
It doesn't really matter either way.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
People are looking for different things they are, but the basics,
the basics you've got to always do, no matter what. Declutter.
So a house needs to look spacious, So get rid
of all your rubbish and declutter.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And maybe so your furniture, yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Put it into storeage exactly clean and tidy. So you've
got to keep the place looking pristine. Anything that's broken,
if there's a hole in the wall or something falling,
a cupboard falling off, fix all that stuff so it
all looks really good. And then you know we've talked
about mow the lawns and all that sort of stuff.
Clean your windows, get your house washed, those sorts of things.
(12:27):
Even your roof washed. Sometimes you don't need to paint
your roof at all, you just need to wash it.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, because I was thinking, I was thinking of our place.
So we have renovated quite a bit of our place,
but our carpet in our bedroom and the hallway and
in my daughter's room is nineteen sixty nine shagpile. And
it's see, part of me wonder, I mean, we're not selling,
and we need to get that done for our own sanity,
(12:51):
but there's a part of me that would wonder would
we leave it like that? Defaulting to know, we'd probably
fix it up, but would we leave it like that?
Because then someone will go, oh goodness, maybe we can
quickly replace the carpet it's going to they'll see the potential.
But I do know what looks like and I'm thinking
that I don't really need.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
To, And I think sometimes we can overthink it because
sometimes you don't forget you're going to move out and
the place is going to be empty. It's really easy
for someone to put a new carpet, and carpet's not
that expensive, so sometimes you're right, you can actually leave
that and then don't forget. You can always negotiate. So
if you've got a really good agent and you've got
a home buyer that's like, oh, the carpet needs replacing
(13:32):
that I can't afford it, and always say we'll replace
it before you before you take ownership. You can always
negotiate those things to get the sale in if need be.
But you know, don't forget some people want to put
their own touch on things.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
What about staging If you are not.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Living in the house, if it's empty, one hundred percent
stage it because people cannot imagine it. A room always
looks better furnished.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, what about if you are well, I mean actually,
if you are living in it, can you stage it?
But still sleep in the.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
How does it need to You don't need to. You know,
here's what I'd say if you are living in it,
you know, go and have a look at a couple
of houses that are staged and see what can you do.
You know, you can get a couple of throws to
put on your beard, a couple of pillows, And this
is where clean and tidy comes into it. You don't
have five hundred books sitting on your nightstand, clean it
all off and put on one. So you know, just
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as just about being presented perfectly when people are coming
to look at it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Okay, if you are looking for a home for you,
for Nicole Lewis, of course you've probably got some fairly
grand ambitions. I don't know, But what are you looking
for when you roll into a property that if you
are looking for a new home.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
So I think number one for people is location. Now
you've got a certain couple of locations that you want
to actually live in. And then the other consideration is land,
like do people want land for their kids and their
dogs or nothing because they want to lock up and leave.
And then you're next considered becomes the size of the house,
(15:07):
how many bedrooms, how many bathrooms, Do you want an office,
that sort of thing. And I think that's the same
for me as it would be for anyone who's looking
for a house. Those are your key things that you
actually want.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
So what what could a homeowner who's selling to you
make the mistake? What would be a mistake for them
to do? Because they can't change the location, location, location, location,
as they say it is, they can't change the location.
They can't change you know, well everything to do with
the location, position, quietness, you know, schools, all that sort
of stuff. So what are the things that they could
(15:39):
do which would or I'm guessing it's more a case
of alienating you as a bill.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
No, for me, it's the deal. Okay, so you know
this is another.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Home though, by the way, that's not for you.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
And there's still going to be a deal because the
other consideration is the market soft at the moment, you know,
it's gone from being at the bottom to being soft.
And so I might have ten houses to choose from,
Well everyone's going to have a number to choose from.
And so I want a deal because I'm going to
I'm going to be looking to spend several million dollars
each house is going to be nice, So where's my deal?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So even are you how emotionally attached? Do you get
to a house though? If you I mean, if you were,
have you do you never fall? Are you quite good
at avoiding the emotion side of things when it comes
to a house, Like if you be like, oh god,
I really do like the way I love the design
of the place and I love this feel and then
all of a sudden, do you get a little bit
hooked as well?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Or do you just say no, no, no, I do
get emotional. And it's actually interesting it's you do because
you sort of fall in love with something and you
really want it. In fact, I did that not so
long ago, and then I was like going to overpay
for something and I'm like, wait, am I not? What
am I doing? So no, you do get emotional. That
is natural, But you've just got to always stop and
consider long term. Like I think for home buyers one
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of the pitfalls is getting themselves into a little bit
of financial difficulty. You pay a little bit more and
you don't really consider the strain on the finances for
the years ahead. So I think when you're ideally, when
you're in a soft market, you can negotiate and always
remember there's another one around the corner. There's always another
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property around the corner.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
We'd love your calls on this one hundred and eighty
ten eighty. What do you do to get your home
market ready? But on the other side of it, what
are you looking for? What's something that a seller you
could walk away and going, you know what? That place
just looks like a tip I just couldn't imagine it.
What are the things that would turn you off? But
if you are looking to get your home ready for sale?
What do you do to get your home market ready?
(17:38):
We'd like your calls on this. On eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty we will. Actually we've got another angle
we're going to discuss as well, and Nicole's already touched
on it about driving the bargain, driving the bargain and
how you drive a hard bargain depending on who's got
the strength. So we're going to dig into a little
bit of market talk on who actually has the advantage
right now, the bars or the sellers. Possibly the bars,
(18:00):
But if you are a buyer, how do you actually
drive that bargain? Because we all know people if you
are listening right now we all know someone who just
seems to always be able to do that deal better
than I might have been able to. And I always
wonder how on earth, how on earth did you get
it for that? So we're gonna have a chat about that,
driving the right bargain as well. It is coming up
(18:20):
to twenty five past four. The number is eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty text nineteen nine two. But we'll
want your calls. We'll be back in just a moment.
News Talk z'd B with Tim Beverage eight hundred eighty
ten eighty taking your calls? What do you do to
get your market home ready? Sorry, you're home? Did I
say market home ready? How do you? How do you?
What do you do to get your home market ready?
(18:41):
My guest is Nicole Lewis, and we let's take your
calls show. We've got a few texts on this as well,
but got some tricky questions to answer and the text
which we'll get onto. But Mary, Hello, Oh, I've got Asterne.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Thanks?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
My question is with the situation of elderly parents and
like me to bring into a retirement facility family home
where they've looked for over fifty years, So there's fifty
years worth of stuff. But the wallpaper is looking a
bit tired. The carpet looks a bit tired. The kitchen's okay,
(19:23):
the bathrooms are okay. It's really paint and paper, I guess.
But how much? How much would we do as a
family before putting it.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
On the market.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Okay, how m just turn Nicole's microphone on.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
That's a very good question. If your parents are already
out of it, then the minimum you can really just
do is paint and carpets. That's your minimum. But the
other consideration I always say if you want to do
it yourself, is go and have a look at very
similar properties that are already on the market. Because sometimes
you'll look at it through you know, the emotional eyes
(20:01):
of oh, everything's quite nice in our family home. But
when you go and have an compare it to what
else is available and look at it through a home
buyer's eyes, you may need to freshen it up a
little bit more than you think if you want top dollar, okay.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Because my view is that are by being in to
buy it. It's in a great location, it's a good size,
it's a good tithe section, but it looks a bit tired.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yeah, So what you're saying is said it would be
good to fresh into that.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Look.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Put it this way, if I'm looking at a property
to buy as a renovator, if I've got my renovator
hat on, Sometimes a tired property that's just out of
date is actually going to sell to a home buyer
as it is if it's been well kered for and
well looked after. But if it's got sort of problems
(20:57):
like the leaf, the roof is leaking and things like that,
and a home buyer can't afford to do anything, then
you're best to fix that to start.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Okay, that's really really helpful.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Thank you, you're welcome, good stuff. Hey, thanks Mary, thanks
for your call. Op. Sorry clicked I always hate saying
clicking off at the wrong timing there. Actually, this just
probably go to Michelle. There's one here on one of
those awkward that's grammatically challenged this text, but it raises
(21:29):
the issue about has someone died in the house, not joking?
This presence is often the case. Is it okay to
ask one one time the place will sale? The man
had been bed ridden, so lots of things I wanted
to sell. But anyway, Look, I won't go into the
rest of the text. That is a thing, but yeah,
what's the thing. And yes, people who don't like the
fact that somebody may have passed away on the premises.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Correct, and it's fine to ask that. Agents expect that
they're used to that.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
And how do that? What if you if you're a
seller and you're like, that's not relevant, I don't don't
want it's not your business.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Some people, it doesn't bother at all that someone may
have passed away in the house and other people won't
buy it if that's happened.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Do you have to say if someone's passed away. This
has popped up on the show before, because it's not
it's not a warranty about the property. No, it's just
none of your business. I mean, it might be something
as personal as like, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I think I can't remember the law on that because
the laws have changed so much, but I think it
used to be around this disclosure of how the person
died natural causes is a different thing to homicide.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Oh okay, yes, God, it does get grim pretty quickly, Kerry.
Let's take some let's take some more calls. What do
you need to do to get your home market ready.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Michelle, Hello.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Hi Tim, Hi Nicole.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Now yeah, good, thanks, very good.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
We're in an awkward position where we've got a quite
a large urban section and we're getting we're renovating, starting
renovations at the moment, but we're in this space where
we've got quite a large above ground pool. It's about
thirty thousand liters, it's debt, and it's got concrete that's
(23:10):
been imprinted to look like cobbles. But you know, we're
trying to think, do we what's the best decision to
make because we could get a home buyer, we could
get a renovator, but we also the section is large
enough for a developer to come in and tear the
house down and build drownhouses. Is doing the pool replacing
(23:32):
the pool option to do or pulling it down and
just making the land look presentable.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Okay, very very good question. And this comes back to
right back what I said in the very beginning is
who is your buyer? If a developer is your buyer,
and then to be fair, there's more to it on
just the size of your land. Developers will look at
how feasible is it to develop? Where are your services?
How far away do they have to connect to services?
And what's the overland flow path like is it So
(23:59):
they're basically going to say is it an easier development
or not. If it's an easy development and it's ticks
all those boxes, you can leave it as it is.
Developers will always pay more than anybody else. They outbid
the home buyers, they outbid the renovators. You can do nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
But if you're not going, how do we know that?
You know, you don't know who's going to buy your
home though, right, so you're preparing it beforehand.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah, no, that's true, you don't. But what you could
probably do is a little bit of research yourself to
sort of say is it something a developer is going
to be interested in or not? Something simple like looking
up online. There's a tool called GIS Viewer, and that'll
tell you where all the that's.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
What developers look GIS viewer.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Correct, That'll tell you where's the storm water, where's the wastewater?
Which are overland flow paths? Like are you in a
flood zone? And if it's all easy like services on site,
it's flat over land flow paths is either next door
around the boundary developers are going to look depending on
how it's zoned. If it's an MHMH or t H
a B depending on how its zone goes will tell
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you all that.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
There was a whole bunch of initials. I had no
idea what you're talking about. Did you know what you're
up with? The play on that one, Michelle.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
You could always ring the development company and ask just
say you know, don't try to say you want to
sell it to them, but would they be initied or not?
There's no nothing more worth asking.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Find out, Hey, you got on your Michelle, thanks for
your care.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Um.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Actually somebody's sitting out again. I'm not sure what they
mean by this, but you might be able to interpret
this for me on the what you should at, what
you should absolutely do to get your home ready. This
might be someone talking about if you are a buyer
looking around, but it says, hey, TB, that's me. Please
let listeners know excuse me, with no uncertain terms. That
(25:53):
running the showers. I think this is as a buyer,
running the showers, flushing the toilets, filling up and releasing
water in the bathtub should be done without fail to
avoid nasty surprises, especially in two level homes. I think
this is a buyer, isn't it? And he said it
especially its is a seller if the buyers do it.
(26:13):
It says this is a specially and my my producers
saying something to my I didn't quite understand that tyre shell.
She's going to type a message to me anyway. Jared says,
this is especially in new builds, as we have experienced
in Stonefields.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Okay, so I think what they're trying to say is
check your plumbing, because you can have plumbing issues if there's.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Something wrong with As a seller, check your plumbing.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
If there's something wrong with a bath and it's upstairs,
you can have everything leaking downstairs. I've had that happen.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Wouldn't you know that if you're the seller.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
And theory, I would have thought you would.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
That's what I was wondering if it was.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I mean, as a buyer, would you, Well, actually, here's
another flush.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Do you run the taps?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I mean some do mostly to find out pressure.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Because it feels slightly intrusive, doesn't it if you're someone's
flushing the toilet running? But I would have I wouldn't
object I'd expect people to be checking, let's see how
the shower runs. In fact, you definitely want to see
how the shower runs, because if you turn on the
shower and it trickles out and you've got to run around,
just run around in the shower just to get wet exactly,
(27:19):
that all that could be That could be a deal breaker.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
So so they do that. Yeah, well, a negotiation point
where you say you want something replaced before you buy it,
you see negotiable.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yes, Tire is saying the seller should do it ahead
of an open home because if the buyer does it first,
If the buyer does it first, there could be you know,
it could be a bit of dirty water coming grime
I think is the word grime coming out the out
of the taps and theory.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
You'd think a seller would know that if they're living
in the house.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good point though, it is. I
actually think that that's something everyone should do. I mean,
if you're selling it, you want to run the taps.
But if you're a buyer, do you Yeah, if it
stood empty for a while, But would you run the
taps if you were going to a home?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Sometimes, if I'm buying a really old old place as
a renovator because I listen to the plumbing sometimes they
make some really strange noises and that lets you know
how much of a replum you need to do. Okay,
so that's it. But again you see, this is who's
you buyer that's buying it as a renovator. If you're
buying it as a home buyer, it's expected that thing works,
(28:24):
and you actually have some legalities under your vendor warranties
if it doesn't work after you've bought it.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Actually, there's there's another thing you could do as well.
If you've got a bit of a slow draining basin
in the bathroom or something, you might want to stick
some of that drain clean down it correct give it
a bit of a rinse while we're learning a little bit,
aren't we, Which is the whole point the one refraid
here show. We'd light your calls on eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty. By the way, the property of the week,
(28:50):
I'm always tempted. I'm going to have chat with the
reproducer whether we give the address away before the breaks
so people can go and have a look at this.
Because the property of the week is quite spectacular in
an unexpected location. And I'm not sure how to sum
it up, but anyway, stick around for that one because
I enjoy trawling it. If it was an Auckland, the
property would probably worth about thirty million bucks. But where
(29:12):
it is, it's about six or seven. Maybe I think, well,
i'd take off. It actually might be every less. Oh
it's three point one. Hang on anyway, but we're not
even up to the property of the week. But clue
it's near Mosgel and it is quite the property. Anyway,
it's twenty one minutes to five. News Talk said B. Yes,
(29:32):
News Talk said B. We're talking about what do you
do to get your home market ready? What are those
finishing touches or the basics you need to do. The
thing about the taps, we've had a bit of discussion
off there or about this about running the taps, is
that often if you're in a house where you've got
a guest bathroom or tur and it hasn't been used
for a while, make sure you pump a bit of
water through there, because the first person to turn it
on might get something that doesn't looks a lot more
(29:54):
like freshly brewed tea, but it's supposed to be water anyway,
I e one hundred and eighty ten to eighty taking
your calls. Kyle, Hello with Nicole Lewis by the way, Hi,
Ni Kyle, Hello, Hello?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Is it Grant Grant?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Now it's Tim Grant. We'll just get your squared with
who you're talking to you first, Kyle, and we'll come
back with Calvin.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Hello, very good afternoon to men, good ath to your guest.
And what I've rung up about. Really, I listened to
what you had to say about bits and pieces doing
your house up and all the carry on my house.
You haven't mentioning about bus transport or anything like that.
But where I live, I've got Hamilton a year, got
what they call the meat Or which goes diagonally from
(30:37):
one part of the city right across to the other
side and then back again. And also it's got the
orbiter bus which circu goes in the circular around from
one suburb to the other. So that's always a good
selling point. But what I'm curious about, how easy is it?
Because you've said different things which you think is important,
But I've always considered the price to be important as
(30:59):
well as as well as the location. Because if the
price is right, you'll sell it, you know, within five minutes.
So what I was going to ask you, how easy
is it? Do you think to sell a house sort
of as is without doing without doing anything to it?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
You can? And you're one hundred percent right, If you
do the right deal and the right terms, you know,
the right price, the right settlement time frame, the right deposit,
you can sell a house without doing anything at all.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
So yeah, it's almost the bleeding obvious, isn't it, Calvin?
That we can talk about you know, different things, But
I guess it's about enticing the most interest for a
property so you can get the price you want.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Most sellers the most money they can possibly get.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Well, I've always thought myself that rather than spending money
on doing the house up, which other people may not like,
the way you've done it is to keep that money
in your own pocket and lower the lower the price
so prospective buyers know that it's you know, not tip
top condition and they can spend that money. Or is
(32:03):
it a difficult way for a buyer to No.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
No, you're one hundred percent right. You'll see them advertising,
you know, do I y or bring the builder and
people love doing things like that, you're one hundred percent right,
and as long as you're prepared to accept less money
for it, you'll sell it. Sometimes those ones actually even
sell better because people are excited about putting their own
touches into it.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Oh, well, you've just said everything what I already did
possibly think, but I wasn't too sure. So that's what
I'll do then.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
And join the netball tomorrow morning. Calvin. By the way,
Calvin's a big netball fan, and you'll be watching the
Salt Fans versus England. Right, let's go to Grant. Hello,
Sorry it was your name is wrong. I thought you
were calling me Grant. I was like, oh, this guy
doesn't listen to the show. Sorry.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
I was just wondering how you felt about digital staging,
Like if you've got an empty house, Like, is that
money well spent or do you think that when they
actually come to see the place they sort of get
a bit of a letdown? Digitally stage is that.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
When you you insert by AI, you furnish the place
into photos of the blank space?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Yeah, the property, the property guys offer it, you know,
to a blank to an empty house. I just wondered
how you felt about that. Or Nicole felt about that,
and that's whether that was a good thing.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
It makes your photos look nice, for sure, so you
might get a few more clicks and a few more inquiries.
But if you're selling to a home buyer who's going
to fall in love with it, and they turn up
to an empty space, that is never as good as
having it actually staged, because one buyers can't imagine it.
They don't know what a room's going to be looked like.
They can't figure out how big it is, you know
what size bed goes in, how many couches. It doesn't
(33:46):
have a nice homely feel, so if you're going to
sell it empty, you might as well not bother paying
for digital marketing unless they want to do it for
free for you, and then let them let them.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Go for it, so you don't think the digital staging
sort of helps them picture how it can be, or
you think.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Maybe they saw the digital staging after they've appeared at
the house and scene, you know what I mean, and
you're doning to go the other way.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I wouldn't say it doesn't help, but certainly I would
also put i'd put it at at a low price point.
Priority agents often try and get you to spend a
huge amount of money on marketing. And I've got a
very strict policy that I only ever pay for two
different things. And if they're going to do that for free,
you will give me a very low price point. Okay,
(34:32):
but if it's expensive, waste of money?
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Okay. Oh for that, I just wanted your opinion.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
That was all are you thinking? Where are you leaning?
Are you selling a place at the moment? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Empty place and New Plymouth and it like it's a
nice place, but as empty do you know what I mean?
And it's going to stage how much?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Not for the house but for the staging. What have
you been quoted?
Speaker 6 (34:55):
It's kind of like an add on and it's just
under a thousand dollars, which doesn't seem a lot, but
it's like, well, if it makes a difference.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
It's no, I tell you what I'd stage it. I'd
definitely do it. I'd definitely stage it.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Not digitally, Nicole's sayings dollars.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
On digital staging, no way, no, no, no. You get
normal staging for about fifteen hundred dollars to a thousand,
depending on how big the house is, so so put
actual staging in.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, okay, okay, stuff, okay, cheers grump. Fascinating. Actually, isn't
that digital staging? Yeah? I would have thought that that's
you could almost it's almost. I don't know. I'm not
explain these things obviously, which is why we get you
and Nicole. But to me, the gut reaction would be
you could set up a situation where people turn up
(35:49):
and go, oh, we really like look at this place
from what we've seen on the photos, and you walk
into an empty place and go, oh god, this is disappointed,
and you almost act against your interests. In my I wonder.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
See, I'm going to tell real estate agents to just
turn the volume down for a minute. So for sellers
here for sellers, right when you go to sell a property,
and agents always going to try and sell you a
big marketing package, and they are going to want to
include a whole heap of things in that. Okay, here's
what I've learned over twenty years of experience. I always
(36:22):
always always pay for a platinum package with one roof. Okay,
so you're going to get there. Everyone else I don't
bother with because everyone's going to look at the same listings.
They're going to go to everyone's going to go they're
going to go to trade me, or they're going to
go to real estate.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
So whereas you get pitched to go all.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
The whole platinum package and before you know you're spending
thirty thousand dollars on marketing, It's like I'll spend three
and I've sold hundreds of houses and it works every time.
So I take the top package with one Okay, so
one roof and nobody else I won.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
I'm glad you said one roof, given it as the
one roof ra that was a moment of tention for me. There.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
I will pay for professional photos to be taken, and
I will pay for a sign board to go out
in the front of the house, and that is it.
I will not let them. I will put staging in yes,
and I will not let them talk me into anything
ourse social media, printed advertising, digital marketing, you know videos,
(37:19):
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And
I can tell you from experience, so many times I've
let the agent talk me into it and I've paid
waste of money. So sorry, agents, but all the houses
I sell, and including the ones recently, that's all you
need to go for don't let them talk you into
anything else.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Brilliant. I think that's a very useful piece of advice,
you know, because sometimes you know a lot of the
time it's like, oh, it depends what you want and
all this sort of stuff. But I just love it
that you've just given this is what I do do
the platinum package, one roof Bengo done, that's it. And
the sign out.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Front professional photos, sign out front. That's what you've got
to here you go.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I wait, e one hundred and eighty T. I don't
know if we've got time for more calls. Actually no,
we won't because we're coming back with that Property of
the Week, which if you want to get ahead of
it and check it out, because it's like the White
House comes to Mosgel and it's two o seven Bush Road.
Get on your phones and have a look at that
two seven Bush Road. You can send you textan because
(38:18):
we might include that as part of the conversation that's
next on New Stalks. You'd be nine minutes to five.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
The one roof Property of the Week on the Weekend Collective.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yes, the one roof Property of the Week is a
fascinating property and it is two O seven Bush Road,
Mosgel And it is. It's described as Georgian style country
manner of rear caliber. It looks huge, it's beautifully manicured grounds.
It's quite a spectacular property. I got the property the
(38:50):
estimated price totally wrong because the estimate for it is
around three point twenty five million. It's five bedrooms, two bathrooms,
two car garage, garage garage and the house is four
hundre square meters on two hectares of land. It basically
the first thing that comes to mind is it looks
(39:11):
like the White House, doesn't it, Nicole?
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Yeah, it does, Actually it does. You've you've got that? Yeah,
it looks gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
So it is, I must say it is. It's an
interesting property to see at the address that's got Mosgow
and I'd love to know what the story was behind
building it, in the design of it. But the only
thing I thought i've straight off the bat when I
saw the design of it was it looks like it
cost a lot of money, and I'm not sure I
would go with that particular design. But the property is
(39:39):
quite gorgeous. What's your what's your take on it?
Speaker 4 (39:42):
It does look pretty gorgeous and two hectares. Well, that's
what five acres. That's an awful lot of land. So
I wonder what they do with all the rest of it.
Probably have some livestock. It does look good, but I
don't know who wants to spend that sort of money.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
A summer house with a swimming pool. That's I think that. Actually,
I think the helicopter just would land on the lawn,
wouldn't it. I have someone found some photos through social
media that show eurocopter landing on the lawn. So actually,
you know what it came to mind. I thought if
I won the fifty five mel, I could build that house.
Just all I thought was lotto win m But yeah,
(40:18):
three it's a lot of house for three million bucks.
It is no matter where you're from, so go and
check it out. It's two o seven Bush Road Mosgill
Dunedin said he was built. And here's the other surprise.
It was built in nineteen eighty. It's probably been recarpeted,
it's probably had. It's probably had. The Nicole lewis because
(40:38):
it does look very fresh. I mean the decore looks
very fresh and new. Doesn't No, it doesn't look like
an eighties house, but it does look like the White House,
and I wonder if that sounds referred to a moscow
for people to get to go out and see it. Anyway, Haying, Nicole,
we didn't get onto driving a barg and we'll have
to save it for next time.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Should and using a top real estate agent, which is
also very important.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
That's the one, so we'll do that next time. You're back.
Thanks so much for joining us. That is, Nicole Lewis.
That was one roof radio show. Go check out the
podcast on Weekend Collective on iHeartRadio, and we'll be back
next with the Parents Squad. John Cowen is with US
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As welcome back to the Weekend Collective. I Tim Beverage.
This is the one roof radio show where we want
your calls and participation on eight and eighty uh and
you can text on nineteen nine two, but we do
love those calls. But just looking a little further ahead
till after five for the parents squad, we were joined
by John Cowen. We're gonna have a chat about pocket
money and jobs and what you should actually give you
(01:06):
children a bit of extra recompense for, if anything, and
should you be given them pocket maney because we live
in a cashless society of these days. Who's even got
money in their pocket anyway? Right but right now this
is the one roof radio show and we're gonna have
a chat about if you are getting ready to sell
and you're getting everything lined up to get your property
on the market, and you might be looking at it
(01:27):
and going well, ideally I would have repiled the house
and put a new roof on it, but what are
the things you know? Maybe you should have renovated your kitchen,
read done a bit of landscape, but what are the
things you absolutely should get sorted before listing your property.
What are the and if you're a buyer, what are
the things you would which would put you off a house?
But also what are the things which, to be honest,
(01:49):
you should probably just ignore that because once you've got
the house in your hot little hands, you can transform it.
So what are the bits you've really got a nail
to get the buyers interested? But buyers, what are the
things that you know turn you off a property? So
we want your numbers on this. Wait hundred eighty ten
eighty text nine two ninety two, and to discuss this
(02:10):
and take your calls. She is the CEO at the Proper,
she's CEO at the Property Lifestyle and her name is
Nicole Lewis and she's with us for the one Roof show.
And Nicole, how.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Are you hello? Hello, I'm very good.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Have you got a bit of a have you got
a to do list? And if you were selling a property,
what do you make sure is tickety boo? Because there's
a part of me I should give my ignorant. I'll
give my ignorant. Take I reckon that if you are
appealing to it depends who you're appealing to, of course,
(02:42):
but if you're appealing to people who want to move in,
if you've got a kitchen that looks like it needs redoing,
that's a bad look because people I would want to
if I was buying a house, I'd want the kitchen
to be. Oh, look at the kitchen. There's just there's
a starter, a start of for ten. What do you reckon?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Okay, first of all, I thought perfect when you said
it depends who you're appealing to. So I look at
it thinking, okay, I always talk property quadrants. I go,
who is our bayer? Are they in quadrant one being
a homeowner? And if they're a homeowner and they're going
to move in, you're right. Kitchen, bathroom, paint, carpet, landscaping,
(03:21):
that's what we want to do.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Kitchen. That would sound like a really simple list, and
I've forgotten already. Kitchroom, bathroom, paint, carpet.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, and a bit of landscaping. You don't have to
go nuts in your landscaping. Sorry landscapers, but you know,
just make it very nice. The law outside the lawns actually.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Mo the lawn would be that's a no brainer.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, fence up a few fruit fruit trees, you know,
that sort of thing, but a bark in the gardens,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Actually, just while we're on that, I know you landscaping
is not the number one, but actually planting a few
fruit tree trees is not an expensive exercise at all.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Now, don't I usually just go you go to min
to ten, you know, buy some some good little trees
and a little bit of potted color. Plant those yourself,
get some embarked delivered, make it look good, it goes
a million miles, it looks fantastic.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Actually, well that's that's the first impression, because they've before
they've even before they've been rocked up in the front door.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Because they will drive away, you know, like you agents
will say this all the time that they're open homes
advertised and cars drive up, they stop, and then they
don't even get out of the car, they drive off.
Because if your buyer as a quadrant one home buyer,
they are emotional, they've got to be well.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Once quadrant one again we might have Quadrant.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
One is a home buyer. You're buying your house to
live in. Oh occupy.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think when we were thinking of this topic, we
were thinking home by at home as in not a
house buyer, but a home. So they're going to live
in it.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Okay, so they're going to be emotional, they're going to
want to fall in love with it, and right from
when they pull up, before they even get out of
the car, there's anything they don't like, they won't even
go in.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Gosh, actually, because that's funny, because if I was mischievous,
i'd say you almost contradicted yourself because we said landscaping,
not that. But actually we've ended up settling on it's worth.
It's not where you have to spend a lot of
money and create. I think what you were saying was
you don't have to redo the whole thing, but you
can just make a few small steps to make everything
(05:20):
look right.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Correct, correct, I guess what I'm saying. It's the smaller
expenditure out of everything else. Yeah, okay, they don't get
carried away getting a landscape architect. No, No, just meend
one hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
No, if you haven't wanted to do it while you
owned it, then probably now it's not the time, right. Actually,
what would be things you'd need to get fixed? Because
I saw something on a social media post and it
was calling it was. It was calling for It was
one of those property sort of pages on Facebook or
(05:53):
something where they were looking at I'm not sure if
they were looking at maybe whether they'd buy it or
whether they needed to fix it. But it was a
big retaining wall. There's a lot of high land at
the back section, and then retaining war was still intact,
but it had a little bit of a there were
a bit where it looked like it was a bit
under pressure. I mean things like that, because that would
(06:16):
to me as a buyer, I'd be thinking, shivers, there's
one hundred thousand bucks if that falls.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Over See, that's a really good question because especially first
home buyers don't forget we can differentiate this market as
well into first home buyers, second home buyers, and also
high end buyers. First home buyers often most of their
money is going into the futures, so things like you know,
making sure the roof is good and the retaining walls
done is really important because they can't afford them. But
(06:43):
then as a seller, they don't actually add any value.
No one's going to pay more because your retaining wolves
fixed and your roof is new. It's just expected to
be good. And I put buyers off if it's not
because it's an expensive thing to do.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
So what do you do? What would I mean that
one that's focusing on a specific issue, but it is
something where it could be a turn off for a
lot of buyers.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
See this is where I say it depends who your
buyer is, because if you as a vendor, you know
a seller, you're going to sell your house. If you've
got a really run down house, you've lived there for
fifty years and you've never done anything even though you're
in love with it because you've lived there for fifty years,
your buyer is not going to be a home buyer,
is going to be a renovator. Yeah, and you see,
if your buyer is going to be a renovator, you
(07:27):
don't have to do anything. They will be buying on
the numbers.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
What sort of a renovator? But I guess how do
you work out what are the renovations that you really
need to get ahead of as the seller? Because everyone
loves the idea like, oh, my goodness, me, if we
could just patch a couple of those dents in the
wall and replaster or paint, and oh we could do
the carpet. That's all doable. But are there renovations that
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that would be a step too far, such as obviously
a retaining wall type of issue. What are the step
what are the steps too far for a reno?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I think this is another interesting question because it depends.
It depends a how long have you owned the house?
In other words, you know, how much equity have you
got in there? Have you got money to spend?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And the other thing were you going to spend it?
One way, either before or in the sale price.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But the other consideration is things like retaining wool in
that that doesn't affect you while you're living there. But
I've done hundreds well yeah no, But what I mean
is I've done hundreds of renovations, right, And if you're
going to do the kitchen, the bathroom and the carpet
and the paint, you rip everything out. You can't even
live there while you're doing it. So you've got that
to consider, you know. I've also you can do bits,
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you know, like you can do I've done that before,
done my own house, put my own kitchen in, had
no kitchen for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Well we did exactly that. I can't remember how we coped. Well,
we could plug the fridge in, and I think we
left the kitchen sink that bench, yes, until the last minute, right,
and then when they rolled in, they rolled in.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And carpet is such a pain because you've got to
move all your furniture for them to put the carpet in.
Says you know, you've got to really consider those things.
And the other main thing as a home buyer too
or a vendor, I should say, is that you've got
to ignore your personal taste. Yeah, because you know, if
you go and think, oh, I'll put down pink carpet,
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you might put buyers off because I don't want that.
You say, everything you do has to be neutral, because
your favorite thing might be someone else's worst thing.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Okay, so what if you're talking to home buyers, what
are the things once Okay, that we've had a you know,
the backyard or the front yard. There's a few things
that you can do. Mow the lawn from the hedge
that doesn't take a lot of work. I would suggest
you absolutely need to probably absolutely probably clean the windows.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yep, definitely. I use our company called Simply Windows. Yeah,
you know, they're between two and five hundred dollars depending
on how big your houses makes a huge difference. Having
your windows cleaned.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I get that downe all the cleaning windows, how bad?
How dirty would your house have to be before you
decide you're going to give that a one.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I always do it. It doesn't matter because can you do
that yourself? Yeah, you can do. Just get the lots
spray something I do inside and out. You got to
make sure they're not streaky. And also depending on if you've.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Finned, I don't mean the windows, I mean the actual househouse,
whatever it is, the breck or the boards or whatever.
Should you be given the house a clean as well?
Because we're starting to get a bit of a list here.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yep, yep. Well, and you see this is what I mean.
And this is where I say it depends. Do most
home buyers do that? No, the people who present houses
pristine are usually renovators, right, yeah, because home you know,
when you're selling a house, you haven't got a ton
of money.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Okay, So for people who are selling to home buyers, okay,
you've walked in the front door, what what are the
things that you absolutely need to nail and other things
that you just don't worry about that too much.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And this is where. It's a good question because that
buyer is emotional. So I always say, let's say you
have an open home and twenty people come up, nineteen
people won't like it because agents always go, what's your feedback,
and vendors can and say. Vendors can get depressed but liked.
This person doesn't like this, and I've had so much.
The lounges too small, the lounges too big, the main
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roads too noisy, it's too quiet, the deck's too small,
it's too high, exactly. But what you've got to remember
is you're just looking for that one person who's going
to love it. And there's always going to be that
one person who's going to love it, and what that
love is is different for every single person. It could
be the area that they fall in love with, that
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it's close to a school, you know, so that sort
of things also outside of your control.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well that's in a way, that's almost because one person,
if you in a way that's telling me that you
It doesn't really matter either way.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
People are looking for different things they are, but the basics,
the basics you've got to always do, no matter what. Declutter.
So a house needs to look spacious, So get rid
of all your rubbish and declutter.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And maybe so your furniture, yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Put it into storeage exactly clean and tidy. So you've
got to keep the place looking pristine. Anything that's broken,
if there's a hole in the wall or something falling,
a cupboard falling off, fix all that stuff so it
all looks really good. And then you know we've talked
about mow the lawns and all that sort of stuff.
Clean your windows, get your house washed, those sorts of things.
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Even your roof washed. Sometimes you don't need to paint
your roof at all, you just need to wash it.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, because I was thinking, I was thinking of our place.
So we have renovated quite a bit of our place,
but our carpet in our bedroom and the hallway and
in my daughter's room is nineteen sixty nine shagpile. And
it's see, part of me wonder, I mean, we're not selling,
and we need to get that done for our own sanity,
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but there's a part of me that would wonder would
we leave it like that? Defaulting to know, we'd probably
fix it up, but would we leave it like that?
Because then someone will go, oh goodness, maybe we can
quickly replace the carpet it's going to they'll see the potential.
But I do know what looks like and I'm thinking
that I don't really need.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
To, And I think sometimes we can overthink it because
sometimes you don't forget you're going to move out and
the place is going to be empty. It's really easy
for someone to put a new carpet, and carpet's not
that expensive, so sometimes you're right, you can actually leave
that and then don't forget. You can always negotiate. So
if you've got a really good agent and you've got
a home buyer that's like, oh, the carpet needs replacing
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that I can't afford it, and always say we'll replace
it before you before you take ownership. You can always
negotiate those things to get the sale in if need be.
But you know, don't forget some people want to put
their own touch on things.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
What about staging If you are not.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Living in the house, if it's empty, one hundred percent
stage it because people cannot imagine it. A room always
looks better furnished.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, what about if you are well, I mean actually,
if you are living in it, can you stage it?
But still sleep in the.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
How does it need to You don't need to. You know,
here's what I'd say if you are living in it,
you know, go and have a look at a couple
of houses that are staged and see what can you do.
You know, you can get a couple of throws to
put on your beard, a couple of pillows, And this
is where clean and tidy comes into it. You don't
have five hundred books sitting on your nightstand, clean it
all off and put on one. So you know, just
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as just about being presented perfectly when people are coming
to look at it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Okay, if you are looking for a home for you,
for Nicole Lewis, of course you've probably got some fairly
grand ambitions. I don't know, But what are you looking
for when you roll into a property that if you
are looking for a new home.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
So I think number one for people is location. Now
you've got a certain couple of locations that you want
to actually live in. And then the other consideration is land,
like do people want land for their kids and their
dogs or nothing because they want to lock up and leave.
And then you're next considered becomes the size of the house,
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how many bedrooms, how many bathrooms, Do you want an office,
that sort of thing. And I think that's the same
for me as it would be for anyone who's looking
for a house. Those are your key things that you
actually want.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
So what what could a homeowner who's selling to you
make the mistake? What would be a mistake for them
to do? Because they can't change the location, location, location, location,
as they say it is, they can't change the location.
They can't change you know, well everything to do with
the location, position, quietness, you know, schools, all that sort
of stuff. So what are the things that they could
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do which would or I'm guessing it's more a case
of alienating you as a bill.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
No, for me, it's the deal. Okay, so you know
this is another.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Home though, by the way, that's not for you.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
And there's still going to be a deal because the
other consideration is the market soft at the moment, you know,
it's gone from being at the bottom to being soft.
And so I might have ten houses to choose from,
Well everyone's going to have a number to choose from.
And so I want a deal because I'm going to
I'm going to be looking to spend several million dollars
each house is going to be nice, So where's my deal?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So even are you how emotionally attached? Do you get
to a house though? If you I mean, if you were,
have you do you never fall? Are you quite good
at avoiding the emotion side of things when it comes
to a house, Like if you be like, oh god,
I really do like the way I love the design
of the place and I love this feel and then
all of a sudden, do you get a little bit
hooked as well?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Or do you just say no, no, no, I do
get emotional. And it's actually interesting it's you do because
you sort of fall in love with something and you
really want it. In fact, I did that not so
long ago, and then I was like going to overpay
for something and I'm like, wait, am I not? What
am I doing? So no, you do get emotional. That
is natural, But you've just got to always stop and
consider long term. Like I think for home buyers one
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of the pitfalls is getting themselves into a little bit
of financial difficulty. You pay a little bit more and
you don't really consider the strain on the finances for
the years ahead. So I think when you're ideally, when
you're in a soft market, you can negotiate and always
remember there's another one around the corner. There's always another
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property around the corner.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
We'd love your calls on this one hundred and eighty
ten eighty. What do you do to get your home
market ready? But on the other side of it, what
are you looking for? What's something that a seller you
could walk away and going, you know what? That place
just looks like a tip I just couldn't imagine it.
What are the things that would turn you off? But
if you are looking to get your home ready for sale?
What do you do to get your home market ready?
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We'd like your calls on this. On eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty we will. Actually we've got another angle
we're going to discuss as well, and Nicole's already touched
on it about driving the bargain, driving the bargain and
how you drive a hard bargain depending on who's got
the strength. So we're going to dig into a little
bit of market talk on who actually has the advantage
right now, the bars or the sellers. Possibly the bars,
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But if you are a buyer, how do you actually
drive that bargain? Because we all know people if you
are listening right now we all know someone who just
seems to always be able to do that deal better
than I might have been able to. And I always
wonder how on earth, how on earth did you get
it for that? So we're gonna have a chat about that,
driving the right bargain as well. It is coming up
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to twenty five past four. The number is eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty text nineteen nine two. But we'll
want your calls. We'll be back in just a moment.
News Talk z'd B with Tim Beverage eight hundred eighty
ten eighty taking your calls? What do you do to
get your market home ready? Sorry, you're home? Did I
say market home ready? How do you? How do you?
What do you do to get your home market ready?
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My guest is Nicole Lewis, and we let's take your
calls show. We've got a few texts on this as well,
but got some tricky questions to answer and the text
which we'll get onto. But Mary, Hello, Oh, I've got Asterne.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Thanks?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
My question is with the situation of elderly parents and
like me to bring into a retirement facility family home
where they've looked for over fifty years, So there's fifty
years worth of stuff. But the wallpaper is looking a
bit tired. The carpet looks a bit tired. The kitchen's okay,
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the bathrooms are okay. It's really paint and paper, I guess.
But how much? How much would we do as a
family before putting it.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
On the market.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Okay, how m just turn Nicole's microphone on.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
That's a very good question. If your parents are already
out of it, then the minimum you can really just
do is paint and carpets. That's your minimum. But the
other consideration I always say if you want to do
it yourself, is go and have a look at very
similar properties that are already on the market. Because sometimes
you'll look at it through you know, the emotional eyes
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of oh, everything's quite nice in our family home. But
when you go and have an compare it to what
else is available and look at it through a home
buyer's eyes, you may need to freshen it up a
little bit more than you think if you want top dollar, okay.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Because my view is that are by being in to
buy it. It's in a great location, it's a good size,
it's a good tithe section, but it looks a bit tired.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yeah, So what you're saying is said it would be
good to fresh into that.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Look.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Put it this way, if I'm looking at a property
to buy as a renovator, if I've got my renovator
hat on, Sometimes a tired property that's just out of
date is actually going to sell to a home buyer
as it is if it's been well kered for and
well looked after. But if it's got sort of problems
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like the leaf, the roof is leaking and things like that,
and a home buyer can't afford to do anything, then
you're best to fix that to start.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Okay, that's really really helpful.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Thank you, you're welcome, good stuff. Hey, thanks Mary, thanks
for your call. Op. Sorry clicked I always hate saying
clicking off at the wrong timing there. Actually, this just
probably go to Michelle. There's one here on one of
those awkward that's grammatically challenged this text, but it raises
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the issue about has someone died in the house, not joking?
This presence is often the case. Is it okay to
ask one one time the place will sale? The man
had been bed ridden, so lots of things I wanted
to sell. But anyway, Look, I won't go into the
rest of the text. That is a thing, but yeah,
what's the thing. And yes, people who don't like the
fact that somebody may have passed away on the premises.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Correct, and it's fine to ask that. Agents expect that
they're used to that.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
And how do that? What if you if you're a
seller and you're like, that's not relevant, I don't don't
want it's not your business.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Some people, it doesn't bother at all that someone may
have passed away in the house and other people won't
buy it if that's happened.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Do you have to say if someone's passed away. This
has popped up on the show before, because it's not
it's not a warranty about the property. No, it's just
none of your business. I mean, it might be something
as personal as like, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I think I can't remember the law on that because
the laws have changed so much, but I think it
used to be around this disclosure of how the person
died natural causes is a different thing to homicide.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Oh okay, yes, God, it does get grim pretty quickly, Kerry.
Let's take some let's take some more calls. What do
you need to do to get your home market ready.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Michelle, Hello.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Hi Tim, Hi Nicole.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Now yeah, good, thanks, very good.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
We're in an awkward position where we've got a quite
a large urban section and we're getting we're renovating, starting
renovations at the moment, but we're in this space where
we've got quite a large above ground pool. It's about
thirty thousand liters, it's debt, and it's got concrete that's
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been imprinted to look like cobbles. But you know, we're
trying to think, do we what's the best decision to
make because we could get a home buyer, we could
get a renovator, but we also the section is large
enough for a developer to come in and tear the
house down and build drownhouses. Is doing the pool replacing
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the pool option to do or pulling it down and
just making the land look presentable.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Okay, very very good question. And this comes back to
right back what I said in the very beginning is
who is your buyer? If a developer is your buyer,
and then to be fair, there's more to it on
just the size of your land. Developers will look at
how feasible is it to develop? Where are your services?
How far away do they have to connect to services?
And what's the overland flow path like is it So
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they're basically going to say is it an easier development
or not. If it's an easy development and it's ticks
all those boxes, you can leave it as it is.
Developers will always pay more than anybody else. They outbid
the home buyers, they outbid the renovators. You can do nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
But if you're not going, how do we know that?
You know, you don't know who's going to buy your
home though, right, so you're preparing it beforehand.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah, no, that's true, you don't. But what you could
probably do is a little bit of research yourself to
sort of say is it something a developer is going
to be interested in or not? Something simple like looking
up online. There's a tool called GIS Viewer, and that'll
tell you where all the that's.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
What developers look GIS viewer.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Correct, That'll tell you where's the storm water, where's the wastewater?
Which are overland flow paths? Like are you in a
flood zone? And if it's all easy like services on site,
it's flat over land flow paths is either next door
around the boundary developers are going to look depending on
how it's zoned. If it's an MHMH or t H
a B depending on how its zone goes will tell
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you all that.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
There was a whole bunch of initials. I had no
idea what you're talking about. Did you know what you're
up with? The play on that one, Michelle.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
You could always ring the development company and ask just
say you know, don't try to say you want to
sell it to them, but would they be initied or not?
There's no nothing more worth asking.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Find out, Hey, you got on your Michelle, thanks for
your care.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Um.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Actually somebody's sitting out again. I'm not sure what they
mean by this, but you might be able to interpret
this for me on the what you should at, what
you should absolutely do to get your home ready. This
might be someone talking about if you are a buyer
looking around, but it says, hey, TB, that's me. Please
let listeners know excuse me, with no uncertain terms. That
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running the showers. I think this is as a buyer,
running the showers, flushing the toilets, filling up and releasing
water in the bathtub should be done without fail to
avoid nasty surprises, especially in two level homes. I think
this is a buyer, isn't it? And he said it
especially its is a seller if the buyers do it.
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It says this is a specially and my my producers
saying something to my I didn't quite understand that tyre shell.
She's going to type a message to me anyway. Jared says,
this is especially in new builds, as we have experienced
in Stonefields.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Okay, so I think what they're trying to say is
check your plumbing, because you can have plumbing issues if there's.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Something wrong with As a seller, check your plumbing.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
If there's something wrong with a bath and it's upstairs,
you can have everything leaking downstairs. I've had that happen.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Wouldn't you know that if you're the seller.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
And theory, I would have thought you would.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
That's what I was wondering if it was.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I mean, as a buyer, would you, Well, actually, here's
another flush.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Do you run the taps?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I mean some do mostly to find out pressure.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Because it feels slightly intrusive, doesn't it if you're someone's
flushing the toilet running? But I would have I wouldn't
object I'd expect people to be checking, let's see how
the shower runs. In fact, you definitely want to see
how the shower runs, because if you turn on the
shower and it trickles out and you've got to run around,
just run around in the shower just to get wet exactly,
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that all that could be That could be a deal breaker.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
So so they do that. Yeah, well, a negotiation point
where you say you want something replaced before you buy it,
you see negotiable.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yes, Tire is saying the seller should do it ahead
of an open home because if the buyer does it first,
If the buyer does it first, there could be you know,
it could be a bit of dirty water coming grime
I think is the word grime coming out the out
of the taps and theory.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
You'd think a seller would know that if they're living
in the house.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good point though, it is. I
actually think that that's something everyone should do. I mean,
if you're selling it, you want to run the taps.
But if you're a buyer, do you Yeah, if it
stood empty for a while, But would you run the
taps if you were going to a home?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Sometimes, if I'm buying a really old old place as
a renovator because I listen to the plumbing sometimes they
make some really strange noises and that lets you know
how much of a replum you need to do. Okay,
so that's it. But again you see, this is who's
you buyer that's buying it as a renovator. If you're
buying it as a home buyer, it's expected that thing works,
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and you actually have some legalities under your vendor warranties
if it doesn't work after you've bought it.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Actually, there's there's another thing you could do as well.
If you've got a bit of a slow draining basin
in the bathroom or something, you might want to stick
some of that drain clean down it correct give it
a bit of a rinse while we're learning a little bit,
aren't we, Which is the whole point the one refraid
here show. We'd light your calls on eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty. By the way, the property of the week,
(28:50):
I'm always tempted. I'm going to have chat with the
reproducer whether we give the address away before the breaks
so people can go and have a look at this.
Because the property of the week is quite spectacular in
an unexpected location. And I'm not sure how to sum
it up, but anyway, stick around for that one because
I enjoy trawling it. If it was an Auckland, the
property would probably worth about thirty million bucks. But where
(29:12):
it is, it's about six or seven. Maybe I think, well,
i'd take off. It actually might be every less. Oh
it's three point one. Hang on anyway, but we're not
even up to the property of the week. But clue
it's near Mosgel and it is quite the property. Anyway,
it's twenty one minutes to five. News Talk said B. Yes,
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News Talk said B. We're talking about what do you
do to get your home market ready? What are those
finishing touches or the basics you need to do. The
thing about the taps, we've had a bit of discussion
off there or about this about running the taps, is
that often if you're in a house where you've got
a guest bathroom or tur and it hasn't been used
for a while, make sure you pump a bit of
water through there, because the first person to turn it
on might get something that doesn't looks a lot more
(29:54):
like freshly brewed tea, but it's supposed to be water anyway,
I e one hundred and eighty ten to eighty taking
your calls. Kyle, Hello with Nicole Lewis by the way, Hi,
Ni Kyle, Hello, Hello?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Is it Grant Grant?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Now it's Tim Grant. We'll just get your squared with
who you're talking to you first, Kyle, and we'll come
back with Calvin.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Hello, very good afternoon to men, good ath to your guest.
And what I've rung up about. Really, I listened to
what you had to say about bits and pieces doing
your house up and all the carry on my house.
You haven't mentioning about bus transport or anything like that.
But where I live, I've got Hamilton a year, got
what they call the meat Or which goes diagonally from
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one part of the city right across to the other
side and then back again. And also it's got the
orbiter bus which circu goes in the circular around from
one suburb to the other. So that's always a good
selling point. But what I'm curious about, how easy is it?
Because you've said different things which you think is important,
But I've always considered the price to be important as
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well as as well as the location. Because if the
price is right, you'll sell it, you know, within five minutes.
So what I was going to ask you, how easy
is it? Do you think to sell a house sort
of as is without doing without doing anything to it?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
You can? And you're one hundred percent right, If you
do the right deal and the right terms, you know,
the right price, the right settlement time frame, the right deposit,
you can sell a house without doing anything at all.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
So yeah, it's almost the bleeding obvious, isn't it, Calvin?
That we can talk about you know, different things, But
I guess it's about enticing the most interest for a
property so you can get the price you want.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Most sellers the most money they can possibly get.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Well, I've always thought myself that rather than spending money
on doing the house up, which other people may not like,
the way you've done it is to keep that money
in your own pocket and lower the lower the price
so prospective buyers know that it's you know, not tip
top condition and they can spend that money. Or is
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it a difficult way for a buyer to No.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
No, you're one hundred percent right. You'll see them advertising,
you know, do I y or bring the builder and
people love doing things like that, you're one hundred percent right,
and as long as you're prepared to accept less money
for it, you'll sell it. Sometimes those ones actually even
sell better because people are excited about putting their own
touches into it.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Oh, well, you've just said everything what I already did
possibly think, but I wasn't too sure. So that's what
I'll do then.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
And join the netball tomorrow morning. Calvin. By the way,
Calvin's a big netball fan, and you'll be watching the
Salt Fans versus England. Right, let's go to Grant. Hello,
Sorry it was your name is wrong. I thought you
were calling me Grant. I was like, oh, this guy
doesn't listen to the show. Sorry.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
I was just wondering how you felt about digital staging,
Like if you've got an empty house, Like, is that
money well spent or do you think that when they
actually come to see the place they sort of get
a bit of a letdown? Digitally stage is that.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
When you you insert by AI, you furnish the place
into photos of the blank space?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Yeah, the property, the property guys offer it, you know,
to a blank to an empty house. I just wondered
how you felt about that. Or Nicole felt about that,
and that's whether that was a good thing.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
It makes your photos look nice, for sure, so you
might get a few more clicks and a few more inquiries.
But if you're selling to a home buyer who's going
to fall in love with it, and they turn up
to an empty space, that is never as good as
having it actually staged, because one buyers can't imagine it.
They don't know what a room's going to be looked like.
They can't figure out how big it is, you know
what size bed goes in, how many couches. It doesn't
(33:46):
have a nice homely feel, so if you're going to
sell it empty, you might as well not bother paying
for digital marketing unless they want to do it for
free for you, and then let them let them.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Go for it, so you don't think the digital staging
sort of helps them picture how it can be, or
you think.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Maybe they saw the digital staging after they've appeared at
the house and scene, you know what I mean, and
you're doning to go the other way.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I wouldn't say it doesn't help, but certainly I would
also put i'd put it at at a low price point.
Priority agents often try and get you to spend a
huge amount of money on marketing. And I've got a
very strict policy that I only ever pay for two
different things. And if they're going to do that for free,
you will give me a very low price point. Okay,
(34:32):
but if it's expensive, waste of money?
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Okay. Oh for that, I just wanted your opinion.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
That was all are you thinking? Where are you leaning?
Are you selling a place at the moment? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Empty place and New Plymouth and it like it's a
nice place, but as empty do you know what I mean?
And it's going to stage how much?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Not for the house but for the staging. What have
you been quoted?
Speaker 6 (34:55):
It's kind of like an add on and it's just
under a thousand dollars, which doesn't seem a lot, but
it's like, well, if it makes a difference.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
It's no, I tell you what I'd stage it. I'd
definitely do it. I'd definitely stage it.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Not digitally, Nicole's sayings dollars.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
On digital staging, no way, no, no, no. You get
normal staging for about fifteen hundred dollars to a thousand,
depending on how big the house is, so so put
actual staging in.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, okay, okay, stuff, okay, cheers grump. Fascinating. Actually, isn't
that digital staging? Yeah? I would have thought that that's
you could almost it's almost. I don't know. I'm not
explain these things obviously, which is why we get you
and Nicole. But to me, the gut reaction would be
you could set up a situation where people turn up
(35:49):
and go, oh, we really like look at this place
from what we've seen on the photos, and you walk
into an empty place and go, oh god, this is disappointed,
and you almost act against your interests. In my I wonder.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
See, I'm going to tell real estate agents to just
turn the volume down for a minute. So for sellers
here for sellers, right when you go to sell a property,
and agents always going to try and sell you a
big marketing package, and they are going to want to
include a whole heap of things in that. Okay, here's
what I've learned over twenty years of experience. I always
(36:22):
always always pay for a platinum package with one roof. Okay,
so you're going to get there. Everyone else I don't
bother with because everyone's going to look at the same listings.
They're going to go to everyone's going to go they're
going to go to trade me, or they're going to
go to real estate.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
So whereas you get pitched to go all.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
The whole platinum package and before you know you're spending
thirty thousand dollars on marketing, It's like I'll spend three
and I've sold hundreds of houses and it works every time.
So I take the top package with one Okay, so
one roof and nobody else I won.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
I'm glad you said one roof, given it as the
one roof ra that was a moment of tention for me. There.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
I will pay for professional photos to be taken, and
I will pay for a sign board to go out
in the front of the house, and that is it.
I will not let them. I will put staging in yes,
and I will not let them talk me into anything
ourse social media, printed advertising, digital marketing, you know videos,
(37:19):
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And
I can tell you from experience, so many times I've
let the agent talk me into it and I've paid
waste of money. So sorry, agents, but all the houses
I sell, and including the ones recently, that's all you
need to go for don't let them talk you into
anything else.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Brilliant. I think that's a very useful piece of advice,
you know, because sometimes you know a lot of the
time it's like, oh, it depends what you want and
all this sort of stuff. But I just love it
that you've just given this is what I do do
the platinum package, one roof Bengo done, that's it. And
the sign out.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Front professional photos, sign out front. That's what you've got
to here you go.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I wait, e one hundred and eighty T. I don't
know if we've got time for more calls. Actually no,
we won't because we're coming back with that Property of
the Week, which if you want to get ahead of
it and check it out, because it's like the White
House comes to Mosgel and it's two o seven Bush Road.
Get on your phones and have a look at that
two seven Bush Road. You can send you textan because
(38:18):
we might include that as part of the conversation that's
next on New Stalks. You'd be nine minutes to five.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
The one roof Property of the Week on the Weekend Collective.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yes, the one roof Property of the Week is a
fascinating property and it is two O seven Bush Road,
Mosgel And it is. It's described as Georgian style country
manner of rear caliber. It looks huge, it's beautifully manicured grounds.
It's quite a spectacular property. I got the property the
(38:50):
estimated price totally wrong because the estimate for it is
around three point twenty five million. It's five bedrooms, two bathrooms,
two car garage, garage garage and the house is four
hundre square meters on two hectares of land. It basically
the first thing that comes to mind is it looks
(39:11):
like the White House, doesn't it, Nicole?
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Yeah, it does, Actually it does. You've you've got that? Yeah,
it looks gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
So it is, I must say it is. It's an
interesting property to see at the address that's got Mosgow
and I'd love to know what the story was behind
building it, in the design of it. But the only
thing I thought i've straight off the bat when I
saw the design of it was it looks like it
cost a lot of money, and I'm not sure I
would go with that particular design. But the property is
(39:39):
quite gorgeous. What's your what's your take on it?
Speaker 4 (39:42):
It does look pretty gorgeous and two hectares. Well, that's
what five acres. That's an awful lot of land. So
I wonder what they do with all the rest of it.
Probably have some livestock. It does look good, but I
don't know who wants to spend that sort of money.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
A summer house with a swimming pool. That's I think that. Actually,
I think the helicopter just would land on the lawn,
wouldn't it. I have someone found some photos through social
media that show eurocopter landing on the lawn. So actually,
you know what it came to mind. I thought if
I won the fifty five mel, I could build that house.
Just all I thought was lotto win m But yeah,
(40:18):
three it's a lot of house for three million bucks.
It is no matter where you're from, so go and
check it out. It's two o seven Bush Road Mosgill
Dunedin said he was built. And here's the other surprise.
It was built in nineteen eighty. It's probably been recarpeted,
it's probably had. It's probably had. The Nicole lewis because
(40:38):
it does look very fresh. I mean the decore looks
very fresh and new. Doesn't No, it doesn't look like
an eighties house, but it does look like the White House,
and I wonder if that sounds referred to a moscow
for people to get to go out and see it. Anyway, Haying, Nicole,
we didn't get onto driving a barg and we'll have
to save it for next time.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Should and using a top real estate agent, which is
also very important.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
That's the one, so we'll do that next time. You're back.
Thanks so much for joining us. That is, Nicole Lewis.
That was one roof radio show. Go check out the
podcast on Weekend Collective on iHeartRadio, and we'll be back
next with the Parents Squad. John Cowen is with US
News Talk SB.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
For more from the Weekend Collective, listen live to News
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