It remains a great time to sell right now, but how easy is it for a buyer to fall in love with your property?

Answering that question with complete honesty will really help you to see the home from the buyer's perspective, so that you can make corrective actions to ensure maximum appeal.

While the following isn't an exhaustive list of common mistakes to address, it should help you to focus on helping buyers to tick some key boxes when viewing the property:

A poor first impression
Curb appeal is so vital for any home viewing. Let's face it, creating a poor impression right at the beginning makes it difficult to recover later on. So well manicured lawns and a generally immaculate external appearance is vital to the process.

Hiding the size of your rooms
Poor arrangement of your furniture and/or the amount of clutter and stuff in your rooms can quickly make them look smaller than they actually are. This is bad news, because you are asking a lot of buyers to mentally subtract all of your items and to be able to see the rooms in their true dimensions. It therefore pays dividends to not only declutter, but to also work hard to minimalize your furniture and stuff and to present the room so that it best conveys its real size and potential. Your asking price can look a lot less attractive if buyers think they aren't getting as much home for their money as they had expected prior to viewing.

Sowing the seeds of doubt
It's so important to address even the most minor home repairs. It's reckoned that for every fault a buyer uncovers in a viewing, it will be expected that several more are just waiting to be found out. The easiest route is just to make sure every detail gets addressed.

Keeping challenging colour schemes
Light, neutral colors will always work for to the widest cross-section of buyers. You might prefer deep purple or rich burgundy, but this will diminish the appeal of your rooms for a high percentage of people. It therefore makes nothing but sense to redecorate in a color scheme that is less controversial and which will also make the rooms simultaneously appear larger and more airy. A deep clean of walls and paintwork is also highly recommended.

Ignoring Necessary Renovations
Given that you're planning a move why would you want to carry out renovations from which, at the end of the day, you're not going to derive much, if any, value? Unfortunately, thinking like this is another way to make your home less attractive to buyers, who will look at obvious projects and realize they are going to be paying for them or, perhaps, will want make a reduced offer to compensate. A tired looking deck, for example, really can drag down the appeal of an otherwise well maintained home.

Not controlling aromas
It's essential to make sure that there are no negative aromas in your home. If you have pets, for example, some people (usually those who don't own pets) will imagine they can smell them. It therefore also pays to make sure your animals are looked after by family or friends at viewing time. Candles and even freshly baked cookies (which you can leave for your buyers to enjoy) can set up a wonderfully welcoming aroma to help get things off to a good start when the buyers enter the home.

Losing momentum
Hopefully, in today's remarkably lively market, you won't be waiting too long before the home goes under offer. But it can, nonetheless, still take multiple viewings for this to happen. So it's important not to drop your guard as viewings progress. Make sure your standards are maintained prior to each one.

The home doesn't look "move-in ready"
This problem is really a result of a failure to address the points we've already covered. So, when you've carried out the necessary corrective actions you've identified, ask yourself if you'd regard the home as being "move-in ready". If not, then it's likely you have more work to do.