Advice, Rights and Obligations of the Seller
All keys to sell your home:
That’s it, you decided to sell your house and have already begun the usual formalities. Before welcoming visitors, you can put all the chances on your side with a concept comes straight from the United States, home staging, a concept which allows to value your property by changes simple and affordable.
The home staging, a booming trend:
Imported from the United States and Canada, home staging is becoming more and more in France and attracts many owners wishing to sell their property.
Indeed, the location or area of housing are not always enough to trigger love at first sight of the visitor in search of a new property: other elements such as interior design play an important role in the final decision future purchasers.
Uniform codes of decoration to please the greatest number of visitors. Here are some steps to follow to make the most of your property.
The cluttered making the space!:
carpets wholesale, surplus plants and other small furniture useless!
The important thing is to make room, so the visitor does not feel oppressed. Keep only the furniture and essential to everyday life, such as large kitchen table or living room, sofa, chairs, and possibly other simple furniture and neutral decor at a time.
Similarly, walls, shelves or even the kitchen should not be filled with objects of all kinds!
Depersonalization: ensuring that the visitor feels at home:
Manga, posters, family photos or trinkets of any kind … you have raised for years of memories that you hold. But these can slow down your car parts sale too personalized truly leave no room for the imagination of visitors.
The ideal is to depersonalize the scene, to make them neutral, preferring a white wall to your wallpaper flowers may not be unanimous, and choose to replace your world decor simple and elegant charm both a young couple a family.
Keep in mind that you will soon be the owners of the place, and it is therefore necessary to attract all visitors!
Rearranging: nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed
Finally, the last stage of home staging: rearrange the scene using the elements that already exist in your home. It is therefore to highlight the area of your parts, lights, etc..
It should also be able to move freely in the house without having to avoid some incorrectly placed furniture, etc..
Neutral and adapted to the tastes of all types of visitors, the changes made by the “home stager (or yourself!) Will allow visitors to look, to think faster in places, which is a point during their visits to homes.
Diagnoses on all floors!
Lead, asbestos, energy, gas from the 1st November, and even electricity soon … The number of diagnoses to be made for a house or apartment is increasing. All this has a cost, but for better protection of the buyer and lessee. What you need to know.
Besides the new directive on gas, on 1 November was marked by the establishment of a “record of diagnostic technique” that every owner is required to attach to the contract of sale or rental. This document is intended to bring together all the mandatory diagnostics.
The surface area:
For the past 10 years, the Carrez law requires sellers of property to refer to the actual living space. It is measured by considering the surface to the floor, which is dug all surfaces “uninhabitable” (walls, partitions, stairs, doors doorway and windows …). The balconies and terraces are not taken into account in the calculation.
Of course, we can measure ourselves to mention the surface, but there are risks. Because if the buyer finds a difference of more than 5% with the actual surface, the seller’s responsibility is directly engaged.
Validity: Permanent
Depending on the surface of the housing for approximately 150 € 80 m2
Mandatory for the sale of the property (not for rental)
Lead:
Lead is often used for the old paint is extremely toxic, particularly if swallowed by a child. It is thus subject to a diagnosis, valid 1 year and is required for all properties built before 1 January 1949.
Asbestos:
Ordered for all construction prior to 1 July 1997, the diagnosis of asbestos must be conducted by an expert certified by the Ministry of Housing. The research covers all private parts (floor, ceiling, lining the walls …). Note that the houses are also subject to this regulation, which was not the case a few years ago.
Validity: Permanent
Cost: about € 100 for a 80 m2 Mandatory for the sale (not for rental)
Natural and technological hazards
It refers to natural hazards such as flooding, drought, earthquakes, but also technological risks (presence of a plant, industry, pollution, biological hazards …). The obligation is determined at local level: to determine whether your property is concerned, contact your town hall or prefecture.
Validity: to be completed within six months prior to a transaction
Cost: 80 €
Mandatory for the sale and rental (since 2006)
The energy performance
The DPE (Diagnostic de performance énergétique) is required regardless of the type of property and the type of transaction. He mentioned the energy consumption of housing (calculated over the previous three years), but also the impact of this consumption on the greenhouse effect and, especially, various technical recommendations to improve it.
Validity: 10 years
Cost: 200 €
Mandatory for any type of transaction (sale and rental). In case of automatic renewal of the lease, however, it is optional.