Adelaide heritage cottage prepared for sale

Pre-sale renovations · Adelaide

Preparing your home for sale isn't about renovating. It's about knowing what deserves your budget.

Sell Ready SA helps Adelaide homeowners and investors work out which cosmetic improvements are worth doing before listing, which can be left alone, and coordinates the work around your campaign if it makes sense to proceed.

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Service area
Adelaide metro
Scope
Cosmetic, pre-sale only
Typical project
$30,000 to $80,000
The walkthrough
Free, no obligation

Recent projects

What it was appraised at. What we spent. What it sold for.

The renovation is only ever a means to the third number.

Renovated kitchen at Mortimer Street, Kurralta Park
Mortimer Street, Kurralta Park
Unit 2. Kitchen, bathroom, flooring and paint.
Appraisal
$430,000
Renovation
$28,000
Sold
$530,000
54 Bruce Street, Eudunda, prepared for sale
54 Bruce Street, Eudunda
Full pre-sale preparation, inside and out.
Appraisal
$260,000
Renovation
$150,000
Sold
$590,000

More projects

The same three figures on every other job.

PropertyAppraisalRenovationSold
12 Tenth Avenue, St PetersFull pre-sale preparation
$2,750,000
$80,000
$3,450,000
66 Burnlea Parade, BlakeviewCosmetic refresh before listing
$510,000
$22,000
$622,000
Mortimer Street, Kurralta ParkUnit 10
$430,000
$60,000
$525,000
Mortimer Street, Kurralta ParkUnit 3
$430,000
$28,000
$500,000

Figures as supplied for each project. Every property, suburb and campaign is different, and these results are not a prediction of what any other property will achieve.

The same rooms, a few weeks apart

Renovated kitchen with new cabinetry and timber flooring
Dated cream kitchen with green patterned flooring before renovation
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Before After
KitchenDrag
Renovated bathroom with fresh paint and new flooring beyond
Dated bathroom with cracked walls before renovation
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Before After
BathroomDrag

The walkthrough

Selling in the next six months?

We'll walk your property and tell you exactly what's worth doing before it goes to market, and what isn't.

  • Free, and no obligation to use us
  • A fixed price before anything starts
  • If it isn't worth doing, we'll say so

Book your free pre-sale walkthrough

We'll go through the property with you and tell you what's worth doing, what isn't, and what each part would cost.

For Adelaide metro properties preparing for sale. Typical project budgets range from $30,000 to $80,000.

A different way to think about it

A renovator builds what you ask them to build. We start somewhere else.

Our first job is deciding whether the work should happen.

During your walkthrough we go through the property room by room and put every recommendation through one question: does this deserve your budget before the property goes to market?

If we think you're about to spend too much for too little benefit, we'll tell you. We're just as comfortable recommending less work as more, because the goal isn't renovation. It's making sensible decisions before you sell.

Nobody can promise what your property will sell for, and anyone who does is guessing. What you can control is whether the money you spend beforehand was spent on the right things.

Renovated kitchen with new cabinetry, induction cooktop and timber flooring

In the order they matter

Your three biggest problems, solved in the right order.

Preparing a property for sale usually comes down to the same three questions.

01
What should actually be done?
Your walkthrough is advice first. We inspect the property with you, talk through your selling plans, and where appropriate price the recommended works against your agent's appraisal so you can see the proposed scope in context.
02
How do I get it organised?
Once you've signed with an agent you're usually four to six weeks from going to market. Five or six trades have to land in the right order inside that window, and they rarely schedule that tightly for a one-off job. We handle the sequencing, covering painting, flooring, kitchen, bathroom and laundry refreshes, lighting, electrical, plumbing, tapware, doors, hardware, landscaping and street appeal, with an agreed schedule and regular updates throughout.
03
What if cash flow is the blocker?
If finding the money before settlement is what's holding you back, we can point you towards funding options commonly used by vendors preparing a property for sale.

The obvious question

Why not just organise it yourself?

Bright hallway with arched doorways and polished timber flooring

You can, and plenty of owners do. The better question is whether it actually saves you anything.

Because we buy both materials and labour through commercial trade accounts, organising everything yourself often comes out comparable in overall cost. The real difference is who carries the project.

Instead of sourcing trades, managing schedules and solving the problems between jobs while you're also preparing to sell, you get one plan built around your campaign.

How we work

Practical advice means saying no sometimes.

Not every property should be renovated before it goes on the market. Sometimes the right recommendation is to leave something exactly as it is, and if we don't think the work makes sense, we'll say so.

We'd rather lose a job than recommend work we don't believe belongs in a pre-sale plan.

Why clients come back

Most people prepare one home for sale. Some don't.

3+3units prepared for one Adelaide landlord, with another three currently underway

One Adelaide landlord has already had three units prepared through Sell Ready SA, with another three currently underway.

When someone has a second property to get ready, they come back because they already know how the process works. For us, that's the clearest sign the process is doing its job.

Fit

Built for people preparing to sell.

Pre-sale work is deliberately narrow. If the shape of the job is wrong, it's better for both of us to know now.

We're the right fit if you're

  • Preparing your own home for sale
  • Bringing an investment property to market
  • Looking at cosmetic improvements before listing
  • Working to a typical project budget between $30,000 and $80,000

We're not the right fit for

  • Structural alterations or load-bearing work
  • Extensions and additions
  • Complete wet-area rebuilds
  • Design and 3D concept packages
  • Renovations you plan to live in
  • Properties outside Adelaide metro

Questions

Before you get in touch.

No. It's a discussion about your property, your selling plans, and whether any cosmetic work is worth doing before you list. If you decide to proceed, we'll prepare an itemised, fixed-price scope before any work begins.
We'll tell you. Not every property needs pre-sale improvements, and we'd rather give honest advice than recommend unnecessary work.
Absolutely, and some owners prefer to. Because we purchase through commercial trade accounts, doing it yourself often comes out comparable in overall cost. The difference is that you'll also be managing suppliers, scheduling and coordination while you're preparing to sell.
Cosmetic improvements that prepare a property for sale: painting, flooring, kitchen, bathroom and laundry refreshes, lighting, electrical, plumbing, tapware, doors, hardware, landscaping and street appeal. We don't undertake structural alterations, extensions, load-bearing work or complete wet-area rebuilds.
If cash flow before settlement is your biggest concern, we can point you towards funding options commonly used by vendors preparing a property for sale.
It helps. Pricing the works against an agent's appraisal is what puts the scope in context, so if you've had one, bring it. Without it we can still scope and cost the work.
Adelaide metro, with a lot of work through the eastern suburbs. Further out, get in touch and we'll tell you straight whether we can help.

Next step

Before you commit to any pre-sale work, find out what actually deserves your budget.

Book your free pre-sale walkthrough and get practical advice focused on preparing your property for market, not renovating for its own sake.

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If we don't think the work is worth doing, we'll tell you.