Adelaide character home prepared for sale

Selling in the next six months?

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.

A recent result · St Peters

Appraised at $2.75M Spent $80k on renos Sold for $3.45M

Service area
Adelaide Metro & Surrounds
Typical project
$30,000+
The walkthrough
Free, no obligation

Recent projects

Renovation measured in resale value.

Appraised, prepared, sold. The spend only ever serves the last number.

Renovated character villa at 12 Tenth Avenue, St Peters, prepared for sale
12 Tenth Avenue, St Peters
Full pre-sale preparation.
Appraisal
$2,750,000
Renovation
$80,000
Sold
$3,450,000
Value added
$700,000
Return on reno
8.8×
66 Burnlea Parade, Blakeview, prepared for sale
66 Burnlea Parade, Blakeview
Full pre-sale preparation.
Appraisal
$510,000
Renovation
$35,000
Sold
$622,000
Value added
$112,000
Return on reno
3.2×
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
Value added
$330,000
Return on reno
2.2×
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
Value added
$100,000
Return on reno
3.6×
Renovated living room at Mortimer Street, Kurralta Park
Mortimer Street, Kurralta Park
Unit 10. Kitchen, bathroom, flooring and paint.
Appraisal
$430,000
Renovation
$60,000
Sold
$525,000
Value added
$95,000
Return on reno
1.6×
Renovated bathroom at Mortimer Street, Kurralta Park
Mortimer Street, Kurralta Park
Unit 3. Kitchen, bathroom, flooring and paint.
Appraisal
$430,000
Renovation
$28,000
Sold
$500,000
Value added
$70,000
Return on reno
2.5×

Return on renovation is the value added, sold minus appraisal, divided by the renovation cost. 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.

Before and after

You don't have to spend a fortune to make a difference.

The same rooms, a few weeks apart.

Renovated kitchen with new cabinetry and timber flooring
Dated cream kitchen with green patterned flooring before renovation
Before After
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Renovated bathroom with fresh paint and new flooring beyond
Dated bathroom with cracked walls before renovation
Before After
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Renovated bedroom staged for sale with fresh neutral paint and new carpet
Dated bedroom with blue walls and bare grey carpet before renovation
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Renovated front living room styled for sale, opening to the entrance hall
Front living room with cracked walls and bare floorboards before renovation
Before After
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Short on cash before settlement?
You may not need it upfront.

If finding the money before you sell is what's holding you back, our Sale Funder partners offer funding commonly used by vendors to cover pre-sale preparation, repaid when the property sells. We'll walk you through how it works.

Book My Free Pre-Sale Walkthrough

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 properties across Adelaide metro and surrounds preparing for sale. Typical projects from $30,000+.

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 white shaker cabinetry and a granite island

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?
Advice first. We walk the property with you, talk through your plans, and price the recommended work against your agent's appraisal so you can see the scope in context.
02
How do I get it organised?
Once you've signed, you're four to six weeks from market, and five or six trades have to land in the right order inside that window. We handle the sequencing, from painting and flooring to kitchen, bathroom, electrical and street appeal, on an agreed schedule with regular updates.
03
What if cash flow is the blocker?
If the money before settlement is the blocker, we can point you to funding vendors commonly use to prepare a property for sale.

The obvious question

Why not just organise it yourself?

Renovated open-plan kitchen, living and dining area with polished timber floors

You can, and plenty of owners do. But it's rarely about the money — it's everything that sits behind it.

Getting a home ready isn't one job. Painting, flooring, kitchen, bathroom, the yard — that's five or six separate trades to find, get quotes from, compare and book. Then you have to line them all up in the right order, chase the ones who don't show, and check every bit is done properly, all while you're trying to get to market.

We take the whole lot off your plate. One plan, one point of contact, and because the trades and accounts are already in place, we can usually have a property finished in under four weeks — not the months it drags into when you're juggling it yourself. Less chaos, and to market far sooner.

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.

Fit

Built for people preparing to sell.

Whatever the property needs before it goes to market, we take care of the lot. If this sounds like you, you're exactly who we're built for.

We're the right fit if you're

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

Questions

Before you get in touch.

No. It's a discussion about your property, your selling plans, and whether any 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. The catch is rarely the cost — it's the coordination. Doing it yourself means finding and quoting five or six separate trades, then lining them all up and keeping them on schedule while you're preparing to sell. We handle the lot, and because our trades and accounts are already in place, we can usually have a property finished in under four weeks.
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.
Not at all. If you've already got an agent, great — we'll price the work against their appraisal so you can see it in context. If you haven't, we work with trusted local agents and can bring one in for you. Either way, we organise the whole thing from start to finish.
Across Adelaide metro and the surrounding areas. If you're a little further out, get in touch and we'll tell you straight whether we can help.

Next step

We renovate for one number:
what your home sells for.

We tell you which improvements are worth doing before you list, handle the ones that make sense, and leave the rest alone.

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