Selling within 12 months? Before you spend a dollar on the property, read this.

A 17-page Central Coast guide for homeowners preparing for a real sale. What to fix, refresh or leave alone before going to market.

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This guide is for homeowners preparing to sell, not collecting generic renovation ideas.

You expect to sell within the next 12 months
You are comparing agents or have already had an appraisal
You need to decide what is genuinely worth fixing before launch

If you have no current plans to sell, this is probably not the right guide for you.

What's inside

Most pre-sale advice conveniently ends with you spending more. This guide is the opposite. Seventeen pages of specific, practical direction on where money moves buyers and where it disappears:

The one rule that decides every pre-sale spend
A 14-point self-assessment with a readiness score
What buyers notice in kitchens and bathrooms, and the renovations they will not pay you back for
The full list of things NOT to spend money on before selling
A realistic 30-day action plan for a working household
An interactive checklist you can work through page by page

No inflated promises or expensive upgrades for the sake of it. Just a practical framework for deciding what is worth doing before you sell, and what is not.

Written by Daniel Byrne

I'm Daniel Byrne, Principal of Farrer Property Co in East Gosford. I started the agency to give homeowners direct, practical advice without the handovers, pressure or unnecessary sales talk that can come with larger agencies. I personally handle every property I represent, from the first conversation through to the sale.

This guide brings together the same advice I give homeowners across East Gosford, Erina, Green Point, Springfield and Saratoga when we first walk through their property and work out what is genuinely worth doing before going to market.

For Central Coast homeowners preparing to sell within the next 12 months.