Fit new kitchen before selling?

terrierlady

if u fit a new white kitchen someone will prefer wood so dont fit either as long as its clean and does the job, you cant know the age of the buyer or even if it will go as buy to let so save your cash dress it up a bit and make sure its clean and tidy for viewings good luck with the sale,

LydiaJ

Jenniefour wrote: »

Many years ago I bought a flat in a hot market - good location, big rooms, high ceiling, desirable property, London where we're used to this living in flats - that had been on the market for six months simply because the sellers disregarded the agents advice to fit a new kitchen - plenty of viewers in first couple of weeks and consistent feedback was the exceedingly tatty kitchen, rest of flat had been decorated and done up.

The problem there seems to have been that the kitchen was a different standard from the rest of the place. When my parents had an EA round to look at their place, he told them there are basically buyers who want somewhere that's good value for the space and are prepared to do lots of work to do it up, and there are buyers who don't want to do work and will pay for somewhere they can just move straight into. Almost nobody is looking for something that's had bits done up but not other bits, and places like that don't go for much more than places that haven't been done up at all. So his advice to my parents was either do the whole thing up properly, or just fix anything that obviously needs it and make sure everything's clean, and leave it at that. So for the OP, there's no point putting in a new kitchen unless the existing kitchen is obviously letting down a place that's looking good in all its other rooms.