Selling your current home and moving into your perfect new house to move into is an exciting time in your life. While making a fresh start in a new property is something that many people look forward to, there’s no doubt that the sale and purchase of real estate can be a long and stressful process. Everyone knows that buying a house is widely considered one of life’s most stressful events a person can experience.
The stress of moving is made even worse if the property transaction takes even longer than expected to go through. So, finding ways to speed things up is a really helpful way to reduce the stress of the situation. With this in mind, here are some helpful tips that could make your move a less stressful and faster process.
Moving Home? Prepare Paperwork in Advance
Once you have found a buyer for your house and have selected your next home, you can take further control by being proactive and driving the sale forward. Selling and buying property are likely to be some of the largest transactions you will need to deal with in your life. So, it makes sense that there’s a lot of paperwork and formalities to complete when making such a large sale and purchase. Unfortunately, it’s the paperwork that can often hold up property transactions.
Getting all your documents and paperwork in order ahead of the final stages of the selling and buying process will help to make the transaction run as smoothly as possible and reduce the chances of delays. You can achieve this by preparing the deeds, ensuring the purchase agreement is ready, and getting the title insurance policy for your property ready to hand over to the new owner.
Arrange Your Pre-Approval
Being able to finance your next home purchase is something that needs to be arranged from the get-go. You certainly don’t want to find your dream home and then discover that you can’t actually borrow enough money to pay for it. So, getting your pre-approval for a mortgage early on in the process is essential. Having pre-approval will make you a far more attractive buyer, and puts you in a better position to push the sale through more quickly.
Get Ready for the Final Home Inspection
One final way to speed up your sell, is to prepare for your final inspection. Issues that are flagged up in the final inspection of your home before it is sold can cause significant delays. Getting ahead of any potential issues is a wise idea, and will help you avoid any last minute stress.
You can do this by looking around your home and identifying any defects that could be raised during the inspection and making good anything that has deteriorated or been damaged since the purchasers last visited your home. Doing this will help to make the final inspection run as smoothly as possible, and prevent any major issues being identified. Importantly, it will prevent any delays to the closing of the sell.