Pre-Sale & Pre-Settlement Cleaning in Christchurch

Pre-sale cleaning is marketing spend, not maintenance. The photographs go online once, the first open home happens once, and buyers form a view of how the house has been looked after in the first thirty seconds. PrestigePro cleans properties before sale across Christchurch, from $249 + GST. CLEAN BEFORE THE PHOTOGRAPHER, NOT BEFORE THE OPEN HOME This is the mistake that costs the most and it is entirely avoidable. Listing photographs are taken early and they run for the whole campaign. A house cleaned the week of the first open home is being marketed with photographs of a house that was not. Book the clean for the day before the photographer. Everything after that is maintenance between viewings, which is quick and cheap by comparison. WHAT BUYERS READ AS "NOT LOOKED AFTER" Buyers are not assessing cleanliness. They are using it to guess at maintenance, and that guess affects what they offer. Limescale on shower glass and taps reads as an old bathroom even when it is not. A greasy rangehood and oven suggest a kitchen that has been used hard. Mould in window reveals raises damp questions, which in Christchurch raises insulation and heating questions immediately. Marked skirting boards and door frames read as general wear. Every one of those is a cleaning problem being mistaken for a building problem. Fixing them is the cheapest value you can add to a sale campaign. SMELL DECIDES MORE THAN ANYTHING VISUAL People do not consciously notice a clean-smelling house. They very much notice pets, smoke, damp or old cooking, and they do not forget it. Carpets hold all four. Carpet steam cleaning is an add-on rather than included as standard, but it is the single most effective thing for a house that has had pets or a smoker in it — well worth adding for a sale campaign. Bins, wardrobes, the space under the sink and the laundry are the other usual sources. WHAT TO PRIORITISE IF THE BUDGET IS LIMITED Kitchen and bathrooms first, always. Then carpets. Then windows — clean glass changes how much light gets into the photographs, which affects how big the rooms look. Everything else is secondary. If you only do three things, do those. EMPTY OR OCCUPIED An empty house shows every mark on the walls and floors because nothing is covering them, so it usually needs more attention rather than less. An occupied house needs to be cleaned around your belongings, and decluttering before we arrive does more for the photographs than anything we can do. Tell us which you are and roughly when the photographer is booked, and we will schedule to it. WORKING WITH AGENTS We clean pre-listing for Christchurch agents regularly and can deal with your agent directly on access and timing if that is easier than coordinating around your own week. If your agent has a preferred standard or a marketing timeline, tell us and we will work back from it.