Sell Property

7 tips for selling your property successfully

What should you be aware of when selling your house or apartment? Our tips will help you successfully sell your property without any hitches.

To manage a house or apartment sale successfully, you need to take a long-term view.

That means getting the ball rolling at least 12 months before your planned moving date. At this point, it’s worth thinking about whether you want to handle the sale of your property yourself or would prefer a real estate agent to do it for you. Here are our tips for selling your property.

Tip 1: Guidance where you need it
Tip 2: Drawing up sale documentation
Tip 3: Listing your property effectively
Tip 4: What does the purchase contract cover?
Tip 5: Successful property handoverTip 6: What about fees and taxes
Tip 7: Our checklist for selling a property

Tip 1: Guidance where you need it

When selling a property, you have the option of hiring guidance as and when you need it – for checking a contract, for instance, or for tax advice. You can take care of other stages yourself, such as contacting prospective buyers or conducting property viewings.

To set a realistic price for a house or apartment, it’s worth getting an estimate of the market value for the property. The price checker on realestate.globallistingplus.com gives you an estimated value for your property based on the sold prices of over 1 million properties.

Tip 2: Drawing up sale documentation

Having professional documentation to hand engenders trust and makes contract negotiations that bit easier. You should have the following drawn up:

Terms of sale
Map
Zoning plan
Floor plans

Using our sale documentation template, you can add your details quickly and easily. You can then provide potential buyers with the documentation or attach it to the listing itself on realestate.globallistingplus.com.

Tip 3: Listing your property effectively

You can list your property online at realestate.globallistingplus.com. This website allows you to showcase your property clearly, with features like floor plans and photos of your home. This will attract a large number of prospective buyers.

When creating your property listing, aim for a professional appearance with plenty of details, informative photos and clearly legible plans.
We’ve put together our top tips for listing your property on realestate.globallistingplus.com here.

To ensure prospective buyers of your property have the financial means to make the purchase, you can ask them or their bank to provide a written financial statement, signed off by a solicitor.

Tip 4: What does the purchase contract cover?

The purchase contract is drawn up by a solicitor. It should cover the following in particular:

Payment terms
Payment dates
Paying and securing the deposit
Final payment
Breakdown of notarial charges
Any property transfer taxes
Encumbrances and easements.

Tip 5: Successful property handover

You should clear up any major issues relating to the property transfer during the sale and price negotiations. It’s best to pin down the handover formalities in the purchase contract. This is where you can also look up any other information relating to the transfer of the property without any issues.

Tip 6: Fees and taxes

Which fees and taxes do you need to pay when selling your house or apartment?

If a property changes hands, certain fees need to be paid to the state.

Tip 7: Our checklist for selling a property

All of the documents you need to sell your house or apartment can be found in our checklist.

You will need the following documents to sell your home:

Extract from the land register (available from the land registry)
Private legal agreements (provisions in the purchase contract relating to building laws, agreements with neighbours, etc.).
Cadastral map (available from the land register surveyor)
Registry of suspected contaminated properties (available from the canton authorities)
Building plans on a 1:100 scale (floor plans, cross-sections, façades)
Building insurance policy (available from the insurance company)
Safety certificates for low-voltage installations (if not available, these can be commissioned from certified electricians)
Building regulations and zoning plans (available from the building authorities)
Map of the local area/location
Estimated rental value and tax value
Financial details (mortgages and bank)
Photos
Building specifications
Valuation