My FiL died last week and we will be selling his house, it will be a few months away as we have to get probate and register the house with the land registery, assuming we can track down the deeds 😱
His house needs a lot of updating, he was there for 50 years, but we don’t know how much to do to make it ‘saleable’, having never sold a property before.
It’s a big 1960’s 3 bed semi with a drive and large garden.
We plan to get a neutral downstairs carpet laid, plus new kitchen and bathroom flooring.
We have to take the kitchen fully out to have a couple of floor joists replaced so dont know whether to refit it but have new worksurface/sink or put in a more modern kitchen, the current units are good quality but a bit dated.
Downstairs will also have to painted and the whole house deep cleaned.
The drive is fairly steep and over half the ‘council slabs’ needs relaying, I’m convinced the condition it’s in now - very wobbly slabs, will put people off.
Houses on his street rarely come up for sale, the last sale was 15 years ago, it’s a section of main road out of our village, with views of old school fields and countryside.
It’s a ‘cheap’ area and the house is probably worth £150k on a good day,.
We just want to make it appealing without spending a fortune, I’m thinking £3 - 5k will do it. There will be £12k left in his bank when the funeral is paid and he also has 2 cars to be sold so the money is there for renovation, it’s just knowing how much to do, or not do.
Any tips/ advice would be welcome 🙂