Window cleaning 'helps sell houses', Domestic Cleaning

Window cleaning 'helps sell houses' - 23/07/2008

Those attempting to sell their house during the credit crunch have been urged to clean their windows by one US broker.

Whether taking up the domestic cleaning mantle themselves or hiring commercial cleaners, broker Phyllis Jane Young claims that clean windows can really improve a property's saleability.

She told the Consumerist: "When you're marketing a house, clean windows are like clean teeth.

"They're the first thing people see on the outside and the first thing they see through on the inside."

However, for those understandably frugal about investing in the services of a cleaning company for windows alone, a fine detergent solution may be all that's needed to let the light in.

But for more ingrained dirt or a house that proves particularly hard to sell, commercial cleaners are likely to have both the tools and materials to help a property make a swift exit from the market.