What is Home Staging?
Home staging is the art of preparing a home for sale by highlighting its best features. By creating an atmosphere where someone stepping into your house can see how they can make it their home, resulting in a quicker sale and higher profits. Homes are purchased based on emotions. Love at first sight.
Your home is personal, as a home stager we are impartial to view your home through the buyers eye. By depersonalizing the space and creating "emotional connection points" a buyer can imagine how life for them could be in your home.
4 Reasons Why Staging Will Benefit You
1. You will make more money. A little reorganization and decluttering can make a property stand out in today's slow markets. Cleaning and decluttering could add $2,000- $2300 more to the final price.
2. The longer your home stays on the market the lower your selling price. A survey taken in 2004-2005 by owners of staging training companies found that staged homes sold 6.9 percent more than homes that weren't staged.
3. The cost of Staging, Doesn't Cost a Dime. In a 2003 Home Gain Survey of over 2000 Realtors it was discovered that sellers who spent up to $1000 staging their home recovered almost 200% of the cost in the sale of their home.
4. Leaving your house in "AS IS" condition will help sell the competition. Right now the number of homes for sale on the market is at a record high, competition is getting stiff and buyers have an expectation when they walk through your door.
Staging professional, Barb Schwarz of StagedHomes.com puts it best,
"A car depreciates the minute you drive it off the lot. But what's the first thing you do if you sell? Detail it. Your home is an asset, so now it's time to detail it."
(Home Staging Resource and Realtor Magazine)
